The Early Years Community Development Institute (EYCDI) has updated their online guide for Early Years Community Developers as a tool to discover personal strengths and skills for leveraging the knowledge and abilities of the people with whom you work.

The Human Resources Management Association (HRMA) is offering an online course, free until December 31, 2014, to help employers improve their skills to attract and retain immigrant talent in their workplace.

The Population and Public Health Prenatal Care Pathway is a health promotion practice support tool, available on the Perinatal Services BC website, for public health nurses and other healthcare providers working with pregnant women and their families during the prenatal period.

The Federation of Community Social Services BC has created an online Leadership Development Directory to inform managers, staff and volunteers in the non-profit and social services sector about the management-focused and leadership-focused educational and training options in and around BC.

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Peer Giving and Charity Express have partnered to produce a downloadable toolkit The Best Affordable Tools for Charity 2013. The toolkit provides an overview of and introduction to crowdfunding.

Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Government, released in May 2013, is the first report of the BC-based Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project.

Our Place is a multi-faceted, community-based inner-city initiative, based in the Strathcona area of Vancouver, and focused on developing a coordinated strategy to grow healthy children and families in a healthy community.

Denise Lloyd, HR guru and recent presenter at a Vancouver Coastal Regional Training Event, posts useful HR resources and tips on her website.

How can meetings work more effectively for you? Here are tools for optimizing your agenda, facilitating your meeting, and using evaluation to get practical feedback.

Collective Impact (CI) describes an innovative technique for working collectively in community to address complex social issues. Request for examples in your community!

Everything Present in the Seed, a new literacy level leadership manual that can be used by organizations to train volunteers in how to build community.

In early March your Keeping in Touch team attended a BC Healthy Communities webinar on building resilient communities.

CharityVillage offers a great article that will help your organization define survey goals, design and implement a survey.

This publication provides a great overview of the Social Determinants of Health and examines 14 key determinates to determine their impact on the health of an individual, family or community.

In this article, CharityVillage offers an insider’s look at the decision making processing within 3 Canadian Foundations – The Niagara Community Foundation, The Vancouver Foundation and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Foundation.

The Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs (FRP Canada) has produced a set of Peer Mentoring Templates and Guides for family support practitioners and volunteers, as part of their Social Inclusion Project.

Charityvillage provides an informative overview of a collection of mobile apps with particular relevance to nonprofit professionals.

The Muttart Foundation out of Alberta has prepared a guide for the financial management of non-profits by Boards.