The charitable sector has navigated many new challenges in the past few years. How do we now quantify our impact, respond to the future of work, and relate and respond to social movements?

In this Five Good Ideas session, recorded live on September 28, Sabreena Delhon, executive director of the Samara Centre for Democracy, discussed how to break out of default binary non-profit work processes to find exploratory, creative, and substantive approaches to making meaningful change.

[5:18] 1. Measure the obvious

[8:17] 2. Challenge the production formula “PDF, Tweet, repeat”

[13:17] 3. Maximize your resources through partnerships

[15:20] 4. Fill knowledge and lived-experience gaps

[18:06] 5. Make it easy to be your audience

[21:41] Q & A

Download the session handout.

Follow along with the transcript and check out Sabreena’s recommended resources.

Presenter bio: Sabreena Delhon is the Executive Director of the Samara Centre for Democracy, a non-partisan civil society organization that is committed to securing an accessible, responsive, and inclusive democratic culture in Canada.

Prior to joining Samara, Sabreena was the Principal of Signal Strategies and managed access to justice initiatives at the Law Society of Ontario. She has directed research studies that examine public perceptions of legal technology and the justice system; results have informed the work of Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General and can be found on law school syllabi.

She is a Fellow with Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and Massey College.