5 December 2022
Author: Ana Fremont
After 18 years as the leader of Community Financial Counselling Services (CFCS) in Winnipeg, Executive Director John Silver, is retiring from a career of outstanding service to the community.
An unwavering force for good, John has led the CFCS team with courage, empathy, determination, and integrity. Under John’s visionary leadership, CFCS enhanced and expanded a range of financial empowerment programs designed to reduce poverty and increase the financial capacity of all Manitobans, all longstanding issues of equity that were only exacerbated during the pandemic.
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Coaching,
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20 June 2022
Author: AFOA Canada
June is National Indigenous History Month, a time meant to reflect on the history, heritage and rich diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples across Canada. It is also a time to honour and celebrate the contributions of Indigenous peoples across the country. For many working with Indigenous communities it serves an additional purpose in acknowledging both large and grass-roots organizations striving to create positive change in their communities and Canada at large.
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Aboriginal peoples,
BIPOC,
Coaching,
empowerment,
finance,
financial,
financial advice,
financial counselling,
financial empowerment,
financial planning,
financial stability,
financial well-being,
goal setting,
inclusion,
Indigenous Peoples,
money management
1 June 2022
Author: Allison Meserve
Dr. Meta Van Den Heuvel, a pediatrician at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), learned about financial empowerment, including tax filing and access to benefits services, when previously working on a study about food insecurity. Dr. Van Den Heuvel, and her colleague, Dr. Catherine Birken, received funding from SickKids Foundation to look at food insecurity amongst families with children requiring inpatient hospital care.
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Child,
Disability,
filing,
finance,
financial empowerment,
financial literacy,
financial stability,
financial well-being,
food security,
income volatility,
low income,
money management,
poverty reduction
1 June 2022
Author: Melana Roberts
For Black History Month, the Broadbent Institute launched a policy series highlighting bold policy solutions in order to tackle anti-Black racism, focusing on the need for intergovernmental action. Melana Roberts, a municipal and federal food policy advisor, public speaker and community advocate based in Toronto posits that it is about more than addressing hunger, it's about combating anti-Black racism and intergenerational poverty through a multi-pronged intergovernmental approach, grounded in the right to food.
26 November 2021
Author: Wendy Abbott-Serroul
Carla Macias, an Ecuadorian who came to Canada in 2007, shares her journey of integrating into a new country, outlining the ups and downs of facing a world where not only learning a new language is key to success but financial literacy proves equally important. Carla articulates just how instrumental the Jane/Finch Centre was to helping her embark on a path to ensure financial success for herself and her family.
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budget,
Canada,
Child,
CLB,
disability,
education,
empowerment,
filing,
financial,
financial counselling,
financial empowerment,
Financial Empowerment Champion,
financial literacy,
financial stability,
financial well-being,
goal setting,
immigrant,
immigration,
literacy,
low income,
low-income,
newcomer,
newcomers,
RDSP,
tax filing,
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