Who Cares? Launch!

Volunteerism and civic engagement are eroding in Canada, and two of this country’s leading experts predict an enormous impact on our communities if leaders across the country don’t respond. Who Cares? was launched May 31, 2007 to spotlight the urgent need for action in communities across Canada.
 
Linda L. Graff, author, trainer, and voluntary sector specialist, and Paul B. Reed, Carleton University Professor and Senior Social Scientist, Statistics Canada, have started a national conversation about the future of our communities – the Who Cares? project. Drawing from the most comprehensive data ever assembled on this issue, Graff & Reed have produced a series of engaging audio conversations to enlighten and inspire Canadians with a way-of-life wake-up call based on compelling but troubling research findings.  Local elected politicians, chambers of commerce, and other leaders in business, industry and the nonprofit sector are being urged to take action immediately.

Visit the www.CanadaWhoCares.ca website for more information or click here to download a free copy of these thoughtful, provocative, and challenging conversations.

Also...

We’re producing a series of free audio resources that will be posted here over the next few months.  The aim is to examine some of the most pressing and potentially critical issues in volunteerism in Canada right now. 

The first audio file is now available and whets the appetite for a more in depth exploration of the issues in a set of interviews and presentations scheduled for release through March and April, 2007. 

Now Available

The first in a series of audio files is an interview Linda gave CBC Radio’s Fresh Air show in January 2007.  Listen to Linda’s thoughts on shifts in the volunteer labour pool in Canada that may result in crises for communities across the country over the next decade ... and what organizations might do to capture the unprecedented pool of volunteer talent that may soon be available. .Listen Now