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CEO Update | April 2023

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Read our latest CEO Update, as originally published in our Spring 2023 newsletter. My understanding of ‘systems’ has evolved throughout my life. Systems were integral to my family’s experiences of immigration, to learning English as a second language, to growing up as a brown teen girl in a small Prairie town, and to watching my … Continued

CEO Update | January 2023

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Read our latest CEO Update, as originally published in our Winter 2023 newsletter. As someone who never makes resolutions, the start of the new year began as most other days in the still kind-of-but-not-really pandemic haze that has changed my sense of time. The bigger barometer of the passage of time had always been the … Continued

Muslims Turn to Pop Culture to Challenge Stereotypes

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Inspirit was featured in New Canadian Media’s recent story on narrative change. CEO Sadia Zaman, Program Manager Angie Balata, as well as Lab Cohort members Adnan Khan and Yazmeen Kanji discuss the Narrative Change Lab and its work to shift narratives about Muslim Canadians. Read New Canadian Media’s feature here.[mk_divider] An excerpt from the article: … Continued

Using Narrative Change to Advance Social Change

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Inspirit was featured in The Philanthropist Journal’s recent story on narrative change. CEO Sadia Zaman discusses the Narrative Change Lab and strengthening the Foundation’s support of Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Read The Philanthropist Journal’s feature here.[mk_divider] An excerpt from the article: In 2019, Sadia Zaman, then a new CEO at the Inspirit Foundation, pressed pause on … Continued

CEO Update | October 2022

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Read our latest CEO Update, as originally published in our Fall 2022 newsletter. In the aftermath of the senseless killings on James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, the rules of traditional journalism were challenged once again.  The community collectively determined when it would speak, who it would allow onto its lands, and who would speak.  … Continued

CEO Update | April 2022

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Read our latest CEO Update, as originally published in our Spring 2022 newsletter. Spring has always been the most unpredictable season for me.  This March was no exception; after two years of dodging COVID, the virus hit nearly every member of my immediate family. And it all started with my friends. I hosted a dinner. … Continued

CEO Update | February 2022

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Read our latest CEO Update, as originally published in our Winter 2022 newsletter. In Toronto, where the Inspirit office is located, 2022 began with yet another lockdown. The collective fatigue is overwhelming as public systems we imagined would be there for us are crumbling, even as we knew about their fragility well before a global … Continued

Canadian investors launch Impact United to mobilize capital for social change

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Leading investors across Canada publicly launched a movement that seeks to mobilize billions in capital towards tackling our most pressing problems, from climate change to housing affordability to inequity.  The initiative, known as Impact United, is a national peer-led movement and community of investors seeking to mobilize capital towards social, economic and environmental justice, comprised of … Continued

We Are Hiring: Program Manager

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Posted November 18, 2019 | Inspirit Foundation Job Description: Program Manager Location: Toronto, Ontario Position Details: Full-time permanent Start Date: January 2020 THE ORGANIZATION Inspirit is a public foundation focused on building a pluralist Canada. We do this by funding media and arts for social change, supporting the leadership of youth in the media and arts sectors, … Continued