by mvboronowski | Dec 13, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
[Editor’s note: And so concludeth the experiment. This has been an incredibly inspiring community-driven team effort – thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! The world’s Occupy Movements might be dwindling, resting or might just be...
by mvboronowski | Dec 11, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Who are you? We are a non-profit society that draws its students from Vancouver’s 3 poorest neighbourhoods – Strathcona, Grandview-Woodlands and the Downtown East Side. Our mission is to support the academic, social/emotional and financial needs of...
by mvboronowski | Dec 9, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
[Editor’s note: sometimes Kurt and I get pretty darn busy with work, life, and Kurt’s lifelong plan to ensure that Johnism becomes the ideology of the next 100 years. For these reasons, we will occasionally copy and paste press releases from cool...
by mvboronowski | Dec 8, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Last night I had a beer and a chat with a man who is is wise beyond his years. He shared with me some great ideas about decision making in organizational environments, such as charities, social enterprises, businesses, the government, the non-government, and...
by mvboronowski | Dec 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Ok, this is the first time (though likely not the last time) I’m going to toot the horn about my employer the Vancouver School Board. Part of the reason I wanted to write this blog post is because there are some truly amazing little communities existing, in many...