by Genevieve Dack-Tittley | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Match Outcomes, Social Enterprise
What a difference a year makes. Back in 2016 Art Ladd, Executive Director of BUILD (Building Urban Industries for Local Development), a local social enterprise that creates training and employment opportunities for people with multiple barriers to employment,...
by Genevieve Dack-Tittley | Oct 23, 2017 | Blog
In the spirit of Global Pro Bono Week, Spark is hosting Tell Us What Hurts. At this lunch hour event we stay true to our matchmaking service comparison and go one step further to host what can best be described as a speed dating session. There isn’t any stale...
by Genevieve Dack-Tittley | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog
We’ve been thinking a lot about communications lately at Spark, specifically how challenging social media can be with its ever changing landscape. Post, viral, and tweet are all common social media terms now, but not so long ago they had very different meanings. A...
by Cate Friesen | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog
The following is a guest blog by Spark pro bono consultant Cate Friesen: Why I work as a pro bono consultant with Spark First of all, the staff at Spark make a mean cappuccino. Just saying. I called Spark out of the blue, around the time I launched my own...
by Geoff | Aug 3, 2017 | Matches
“I come from the business community, and now working in a community organization that runs a variety of social enterprises, I need to constantly walk that fine line between the business and non profit worlds” says Angela McCaughan, executive director at...
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