Building a risk assessment framework

Building a risk assessment framework

The Knowles Centre is a nonprofit treatment centre for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties. It helps around 250 youth annually through five core programs, including group care treatment, treatment foster care, independent living, day...
How much space does one Women’s Centre use?

How much space does one Women’s Centre use?

The Fort Garry Women’s Resource Centre, south Winnipeg’s only women’s centre, has been creating a safe and helpful space for women since 1983. Run as a collective and with feminist philosophies, FGWRC is a place visited by women-identified people...
Executive Director mentorship

Executive Director mentorship

Candace House is a relatively new nonprofit with a solid idea and a firm foundation. It was started by Wilma Derksen in honour of her daughter, Candace, who was murdered in the 1980s. As Wilma spoke to others who had been affected by serious crime, she realized that...
A Healing Garden for North End Women’s Centre

A Healing Garden for North End Women’s Centre

The North End Women’s Centre has been improving the lives of women in Winnipeg’s North End for over 30 years. There have been many changes in that time, including to a once-loved community garden area that now only exists as a few small raised garden...
Upgrade on communications tools

Upgrade on communications tools

Long, long ago (ok, 11 years), Spark was called CEDTAS, and was housed at SEED Winnipeg. We’ve come a long way since then, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without that initial support. And so, when SEED contacted us to get some help building...