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From Our Vantage PointChanging and Challenging Times in the Non-Profit SectorGuests:Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon | University of British ColumbiaKevin McCort | Vancouver FoundationWalter Pela | Greater Vancouver Board of TradeHost:Zahra Esmail | Vantage Point’s Chief Executive DirectorResources:Vantage Point State of the Sector ReportsBC Non-Profit NetworkVancouver FoundationGreater Vancouver Board of TradeGreater Vancouver Board of Trade AI Adoption ProgramUniversity of British ColumbiaUBC Community EngagementBC Non-Profit Leadership ConferenceHumanity Financial
From Our Vantage Point podcast is generously sponsored by ou...2025-05-0555 min
From Our Vantage PointCelebrating Philanthropy: Rethinking Fundraising and Exploring Emerging TrendsGuest:Alex Wilson | Big Sisters BC Lower Mainland and the Association of Fundraising ProfessionalsHost:Zahra Esmail | Vantage Point's Chief Executive OfficerEditor:Paul Wang
From Our Vantage Point podcast is generously sponsored by our partners at Humanity Financial.2024-10-2939 min
CharityVillage ConnectsDissatisfied and disillusioned: Nonprofit professionals are unhappy at workEpisode 22 – Dissatisfied and disillusioned: Nonprofit professionals are unhappy at workA new report has highlighted a disturbing and perhaps surprising finding: Job satisfaction in the nonprofit sector appears to be lower than in either the private or public sector. In a sector that focuses on meaningful work, what is driving a significant number of workers to feel dissatisfied? And what does this mean for the future given the existing talent crunch and the need for recruiting younger demographics to work in the sector? In this episode of CharityVillage Connects, listen to sector experts weigh in...2024-08-0654 minCharityVillage ConnectsTrailer: Dissatisfied and disillusioned: Nonprofit professionals are unhappy at workEpisode 22 – Dissatisfied and disillusioned: Nonprofit professionals are unhappy at workA new report has highlighted a disturbing and perhaps surprising finding: Job satisfaction in the nonprofit sector appears to be lower than in either the private or public sector. In a sector that focuses on meaningful work, what is driving a significant number of workers to feel dissatisfied? And what does this mean for the future given the existing talent crunch and the need for recruiting younger demographics to work in the sector? In this episode of CharityVillage Connects, listen to sector experts weigh in...2024-08-0304 min
From Our Vantage PointStrengthening Relationships: The Role and Voice of Non-profits with GovernmentGuests:Megan Dykeman | British Columbia’s Parliamentary Secretary Prairie Chiu | Vantage Point's Director of Engagement and AdvocacyHost:Zahra Esmail | Vantage Point's Chief Executive OfficerEditor:Paul Wang
From Our Vantage Point podcast is generously sponsored by our partners at Humanity Financial.2024-01-3140 min
Let's ImagineHome in Government, with Zahra EsmailWhile our sector has several touchpoints with the federal government, no ministry or department is responsible for improving the nonprofit sector's policy environment or economic landscape. At the provincial level, however, such models exist. For example, in 2020, leaders in British Columbia created a place inside the machinery of government to support charities and nonprofits with the appointment of its first-ever Parliamentary Secretary - Community Development and Nonprofits. In this episode, we are exploring the concept of a ‘home in government’ with our guest, Zahra Esmail, CEO of Vantage Point in Vancouver. Listen & share!2023-09-2422 min
The Discovery PodVantage Point With Zahra EsmailBuilding strong communities is key to driving better outcomes in the social profit sector. By bringing together essential partners, boards, and teams, we can create a unified force to make a meaningful impact in the world. In this episode, Zahra Esmail, the CEO of Vantage Point, shares her invaluable insights into leading communities in the social profit sector. Zahra emphasizes the importance of bringing the BC social profit community together and explores the creation of a BC non-profit network. Zahra provides advice for business leaders on how to bring together their team, their board, and their community partners to...2023-03-1538 min
From Our Vantage PointStrengthening the Non-Profit Sector through Fund DevelopmentStrengthening the capacity of the Non-profit sector is a primary focus at Vantage Point. Through all our work we seek to support, convene and uplift non-profit organizations in British Columbia. That’s why this conversation is so important to us. How can we use effective fund development practices and efficient technology to support our sector? The tools are out there. How can we use them best? Why are inclusive fundraising practices important? Who is responsible for financially supporting the sector?
In this episode, our host and CEO of Vantage Point, Zahra Esmail, talks with Bryna Dilman, the Senior Director of Gr...2023-03-0737 min
Hear Me Now PodcastBeing wellToday, ��we look at well-being with wisdom gleaned from the first two years of this podcast. We listen with an ear to taking care of ourselves in ordinary times from people in the throes of extraordinary times��� warfare��� pandemic��� social change��� illness��� and the challenges of just being human..Explore the complete list of past episodes...BE UNCOMFORTABLEProvidence caregivers Jeremy Edmonds and Victoria Johnson reflect on their experiences of racism in our first podcast episode, "I see you. I hear you. I ache for you," published just weeks after the murder of Geo...2022-09-0844 min
Cambie ReportE-71 Coupar quitsThe wild summer lead up to the municipal elections continues!John Coupar quits the race for mayor following another bad poll for him.The Vancouver Plan passes, with plenty of amendments, including an amended amendment that drew the ire of Black Vancouverites.A Kitsilano social housing complex also passed, also after 300 speakers. But the controversy played a part in the decision to quit by BC Housing's CEO.We also know how little Port Coquitlam will save by leaving the LMLGA, which doesn't really explain why they left.Dan Fumano...2022-08-0651 minHear Me Now PodcastCOVID 2022: Looking AheadDr. Amy Compton-Phillips, president of clinical operations at Providence, believes we're about to see the end of the pandemic and the beginning of endemic COVID - where the illness is less severe yet more widely seen in the general population. The unprecedented rapid development of vaccines has made this remarkable advance possible.Julie Rovner, who has been following the Supreme Court's review of the Biden administration's mandates for workplace use of masks and testing, points to problems seen in public health messaging and the challenges the pandemic has posed for clear and concise advice for individuals, clinicians...2022-01-1348 min
From Our Vantage Point66. Food For Thought: Meeting Community NeedsWe centre food insecurity in the Lower Mainland with Zahra Esmail, Executive Director of South Van Neighbourhood House, and Upkar Singh Tatlay, Executive Director of Engaged Communities Canada Society in this very special podcast.
While food insecurity is the theme, Zahra, Upkar, and podcast host Rowan discuss how racial biases impact the lives of immigrants, refugees, and street-entrenched individuals and how ECCS and Neighbourhood House support the work to meet their needs.
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From Our Vantage Point podcast is generously sponsored by our partners at...2021-08-2550 minHear Me Now PodcastAnger and the Delta WaveWe return to two caregivers who poignantly described the Winter Surge in Southern California in our episode "COVID-19 Realities," in January 2021. Listener advisory: The effects on these caregivers of treating unvaccinated patients is startling..Zahra Esmail, DOPalliative Care PhysicianProvidence Little Company of Mary Medical CenterTorrance, Calif..Christina Rothans, LCSWPalliative Care Social WorkerProvidence Little Company of Mary Medical CenterTorrance, Calif...We discuss the challenge of getting public health...2021-08-1244 minHear Me Now PodcastCOVID-19 RealitiesAgainst a backdrop of COVID-19 denialism and super-spreader events, Dr. Zahra Esmail and social worker Christina Rothans have been treating a recent surge of patients with their colleagues in the South Bay of Los Angeles.��The two serve on one of the in-house palliative care teams at the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. They are responsible for the care of the very sickest patients.The hospital's census of COVID-19-positive patients has climbed steadily for the past two months to heretofore unseen levels. All of the COVID-19 patients have been isol...2021-01-2839 min