Triple Bottom Line Businesses Succeeding Despite Economic Slowdowns
Guest Post From Adam Jones, Owner/Operator of MAXgreen Windows, Doors and Exteriors
With the price of oil down, everybody in Calgary seems to be worrying about the future of our local economy. After all, the oil and gas market is what generates billions for this province's public services, directly provides thousands of jobs, and trickles down those earnings to other local industries, especially construction.
Will housing prices drop?
Will skilled labour costs go down?
Will I be laid off due to the slower economy?
Is this the right time to be doing a renovation?
These are all common questions and you can talk to half a dozen "experts" and get 6 different theories on each question.
Unfortunately, many business still look at only one bottom line - their profit.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 11:11
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Philanthropy and the End of Geography - a Response to Seth Godin
On January 31, 2015 Seth Godin published a short blog entitled the End of Geography. In this post he points out how companies and technologies have removed the geography barrier and that localized markets are no-longer limited to kilometers and miles. He ends his post with, "If you are still betting on geogrpahy, on winning merely because you are local, I hope you have a special case in mind."
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 05:31
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Philanthropy and the End of Geography - a Response to Seth Godin
On January 31, 2015 Seth Godin published a short blog entitled the End of Geography. In this post he points out how companies and technologies have removed the geography barrier and that localized markets are no-longer limited to kilometers and miles. He ends his post with, "If you are still betting on geogrpahy, on winning merely because you are local, I hope you have a special case in mind."
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 05:31
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Dream Big... What would you do with $50Million
Last week someone in Alberta won the $50Million lottery prize. This morning on CBC Eyeopener, David Grey interviewed the spokesperson, Kevin van Egdom from Western Canada Lottery Corporation and one of the questions was about preparing for the acceptance of such a significant cash prize.
This got me thinking about “What if…”
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 16:09
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Dream Big... What would you do with $50Million
Last week someone in Alberta won the $50Million lottery prize. This morning on CBC Eyeopener, David Grey interviewed the spokesperson, Kevin van Egdom from Western Canada Lottery Corporation and one of the questions was about preparing for the acceptance of such a significant cash prize.
This got me thinking about “What if…”
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 16:09
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Place2Give Charity List
Every year I provide a list of organizations that Dexterity Consulting clients and Place2Give donors have directed their funds. This past year we have seen significant growth in our donor base and so the list below is a snapshot of the organizations that were supported.
As this is your last chance for year-end donations, we have made giving easy - by clicking on any one of the links you can donate directly to the charity through the Place2Give Foundation.
Happy New Year and thank you for your generosity and continued support of the organizations that make our communities strong!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 09:51
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Place2Give Charity List
Every year I provide a list of organizations that Dexterity Consulting clients and Place2Give donors have directed their funds. This past year we have seen significant growth in our donor base and so the list below is a snapshot of the organizations that were supported.
As this is your last chance for year-end donations, we have made giving easy - by clicking on any one of the links you can donate directly to the charity through the Place2Give Foundation.
Happy New Year and thank you for your generosity and continued support of the organizations that make our communities strong!
Place2Give, Dexterity Consulting's sister company, recently partnered with Give A Mile to help them process cash donations. Give A Mile is a Not-For-Profit looking to enable people to visit terminally ill friends & family through crowdfunding of flights via micro-donations of travel points.
This week I had the privilege of attending the Nexus Youth Summit in Washington, DC. The purpose of this summit is to bring together leaders in philanthropy, social enterprise, social finance and the Next Generation for a series of conversations that lead to action around the critical issues facing our communities - locally, nationally, internationally.
One session that stood out in particular for me was a session on Climate and Philanthropy. A panel discussion with:
Ibrahim Al-Husseini, FullCycle Energy
Ellen Dorsey, Wallace Global Fund
Alex Bozmoski, Energy & Enterprise Initiative
Megan Nicholson, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
As you can see, this panel cross the spectrum of Republicans and Democrats with a view to find economic solutions and market-based solutions to environmental problems.
In today's Seth Godin blog - Babies and Bath Water, he lists the organizations that he is supporting for GivingTuesday and also links to the "worst" charities.
Every month we share the latest tech updates to the Place2Give website and the technology solutions offered through Dexterity Ventures Inc.
The entire Dexterity Ventures (DVI) team has been head down in preparation for GivingTuesday and the presentation at CKX Summit in Toronto (more info about that here) that happened on November 20th. As such, we would like to use our tech blog this month as a taster for the things we've launched over the month.
We set-up and launched the GivingTuesday Campaign for Place2Give and Dexterity Ventures in anticipation of Tuesday December 2nd(aka 2014’s ‘GivingTuesday’). The Place2Give GivingTuesday Motif Giving Campaign can be found here.
