Pauline MacIntosh (Program Teaching Staff) received the St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) Community Outreach Award at the university’s December convocation ceremony.
The award recognizes university faculty and staff who have demonstrated a long and consistent commitment to serving the Nova Scotia community.
“For Pauline, her engagement with community is her life’s work and passion,” says Eileen Alma (Executive Director, Coady Institute).
“While her role at Coady and formerly Extension is well known and has been specifically focused on these connections in Atlantic Canada, her commitment has been well beyond this for decades.”
Pauline truly embodies the spirit of the Antigonish Movement and its emphasis on transformation through community outreach, adult education and collective action.
Pauline MacIntosh worked with the StFX Extension Department from 1997 until its merger with Coady International Institute in 2021, at which time Coady Institute was formed. An experienced adult educator and facilitator, she is passionate about working with groups engaged in asset-based community development, capacity strengthening and education, and leadership for learning and change.
Pauline grew up in a family that believed in community and cooperation and this influenced her from an early age. Her service to community has taken many forms, including volunteer canvasser with the Canadian Cancer Society, Tree of Lights volunteer with the Antigonish Guysborough Early Childhood Intervention Program, 4-H leader, speaker and process facilitator, and Lower South River Pre-School board director, among others.
Pauline has had immeasurable impact on her community, dedicating countless volunteer hours in numerous capacities over many years. She currently volunteers as Vice Chair of the St. Andrews Community Partnership Board of Directors, an organization comprised of 12 non-profit community-based organizations; Vice Chair of the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society Board of Directors, a non-profit housing organization that owns and operates 28 homes in Antigonish; and Vice Chair of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council Board of Directors, which serves as the voice of the co-operative movement in Nova Scotia.
Pauline truly embodies the spirit of the Antigonish Movement and its emphasis on transformation through community outreach, adult education and collective action.
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