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Archive for July, 2009

Youth making a difference

Posted on July 16th, 2009 in: Project Love

When you hear about the Jane and Finch neighbourhood in Toronto, it’s not always positive news. Westview Centennial Secondary School changed all of my preconceived notions about the “rough area” when a student group called Build the Bridge registered for Project Love this year.
The group was headed by Pierre Yesaya in Grade 12 student who [...]

Sharing Dialogue

Posted on July 8th, 2009 in: CODE

This summer CODE held its biannual all-partners workshop in Ottawa Ontario. The workshop was designed to gather all partners together to share their successes and lessons learned, and to share in dialogue about standardizing how we measure the results of our work as individual organizations and as a collective.
Below are some comments from participants:
The partner’s [...]