Engaging Youth
December 2009
Report: A Dialogue - Free the Children: Final Reflections and our Reply
Youth empowerment and leadership service, Volunteer Now!, reflects on their organization with a reply from the Foundation.
June 24, 2011
Report: Building Bridges Across Generations: Redefining Intergenerational Spaces for Girls' Empowerment
A compilation of practices and reflections on creating intergenerational spaces for social change.
November, 2012
Video: Building on Failure: Learning When Things Go Wrong
In this webinar, Ashley Good provides an overview of how to “fail forward”, an approach that is grounded in years of generating failure reports with Engineers Without Borders Canada. Dr. Natasha Blanchet-Cohen highlights some failures (and lessons learned) related to a pan-Canadian youth engagement initiative called YouthScape.
September 2007
Report: Community Service-Learning: Reflections from the Foundation
The Foundation reflects on Community Service-Learning, an educational approach integrating community service with intentional learning activities.
January 2002
Report: Creating Change Youth Style: A Youth Action Strategy Exploration Report for the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
A 2002 recommendation of a course of action for the Foundation in its emerging youth engagement landscape.
October 29, 2010
Report: Creative Youth Empowerment: Engaging Our Youth Today to Unlock Tomorrow’s Leaders
Describes the start-up of Youth Fusion, a project that has graduate students leading programs for high school students at underperforming schools, and provides lessons learned during its growth. Originally published in The Philanthropist.
August 2010
Video: Dancing in the Rain
Jen's contribution to the Green Street Digital Storytelling video series. Green Street is a national program encouraging young peoples’ active participation in creating a sustainable future.
July 2010
Publication: DE 201: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developmental Evaluation
Builds on the concepts outlined in A Developmental Evaluation Primer by articulating some of the key practices associated with this work.
February 2010
Report: Developmental Evaluation Report: A trek through the YouthScape landscape
Offers insights about the youth engagement initiative, YouthScape, through the eyes of its Lead Developmental Evaluator.
August 2010
Video: Eco Ethical Club Story
Chris' contribution to the Green Street Digital Storytelling video series. Green Street is a national program encouraging young peoples’ active participation in creating a sustainable future.
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