Category: Capacity Strengthening

The McConnell Foundation and Community Foundations of Canada, brought together a group of stakeholders working at the intersection of public interest journalism and democracy to build relationships, deepen collective understanding of the connections between a healthy democracy and public interest journalism, and to explore potential interventions across sectors

In June 2018, the McConnell Family Foundation convened a meeting to discuss and review the landscape of philanthropic involvement in Canadian public interest journalism. McConnell’s interest in this subject is ingrained in the organization’s history, as its founder was a former publisher of the Montreal Star. Most recently, the Foundation has been interested in building […]

With the emergence of the global COVID-19 pandemic, social purpose-driven organizations are stepping up to the challenge of pivoting their business models to play their role. Now, more than ever, leaders are called upon to make immediate and profound decisions with far-reaching consequences – and with the potential to accelerate and scale their social impact […]

From August 16-19 2019, McConnell, Luminate and the Public Policy Forum convened a group of experts and stakeholders from the field of civic digital literacy and mis/disinformation prevention to discuss “digital threats to our democracy”. Together, we explored ways to deepen digitally enabled civic engagement and strengthen our collective capacity to respond to these digital […]

McConnell is traditionally viewed as an Anglophone foundation, but as we deepen our engagement with French communities across Canada, we are learning how to improve our communication in our second language – French. We were recently sensitized to the changing norms of the language and realized that our existing practices needed to evolve. We conducted […]

McConnell is traditionally viewed as an Anglophone foundation, but as we deepen our engagement with French communities across Canada, we are learning how to improve our communication in our second language. We were recently sensitized to the changing norms of the language and realized that our existing practices needed to evolve. We conducted research into […]