For many generations, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people have celebrated their culture and heritage on the summer solstice – the longest day of the year. We join in celebrating the diverse cultures of Indigenous people across Turtle Island with the intentions of solidarity, community, kinship, and reconciliation.
Today, we highlight some of the invaluable Mentors for the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership (IWCL) program.
Assuntha Fleurant of le Centre Haitien du Leadership et de l’Excellence (CLE) says Engage has been “one of the best experiences” and that witnessing the accomplishments of women through the program has been “inspiring.”
EVENT: Join us as we welcome more than 50 Coady participants to Coady Institute, StFX, and Antigonish!
EVENT: The People’s School on Arts and Health Equity will explore the connections between the arts, the social determinants of health equity, and social justice.
On a recent trip to Bangladesh, Engage project manager Eric Smith met with representatives of CCDB and travelled to the country’s Southwestern region to visit some of the project’s sites and speak with some of the 400 women involved in Engage. The women participated in a photovoice exercise, which provided them with the opportunity to take pictures that assisted in explaining their stories and narratives.
We are thrilled to share with you the latest edition of The Coady Connection. We invite you to delve into this newsletter and join us in celebrating the achievements of our graduates, partners, and staff.
Together, we are cultivating a future where everyone has the opportunity to lead, inspire, and create lasting change.
We are pleased to announce the incoming young leaders for the 2024-25 Pathy Foundation Fellowship at Coady Institute.
The incoming Fellows will attend skill-building sessions and planning workshops at Coady Institute before commencing the ten-month community phase. Fellows will work with community partners to implement a broad diversity of projects, from capacity building and advocacy work with blind youth through storytelling in Nepal, to enhancing equitable access to haircare for Black youth in Ottawa, Ontario, to creating culturally sensitive spaces for addiction support in Edmonton, Alberta, and more
The Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) has opened applications for the 2024 Sister-to-Sister feminist peacebuilders leadership program. Women are indispensable in peacebuilding though historically overlooked and marginalized in formal peace processes. This understanding,...
May 23 | Join the 2023-24 Pathy Fellows as they share their experiences implementing innovative projects around the world. Nine Fellows working in Canada, Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, and Malawi on a diverse range of social-change initiatives will present their projects.
On April 24, Coady staff Digafie Debalke and the graduating Grassroots Peacebuilding cohort met for a discussion focused on peacebuilding and dismantling structures of violence.