The Alberta Government released the 2022 budget on February 24, which set out the government’s yearly financial plan as well as its overall taxation and spending priorities. CCVO has released our in-depth budget analysis and Nonprofit Connections on March 22 will begin with a walk-through of this analysis by CCVO Research Manager Kirsten Boda. The following panel discussion, moderated by Karen Ball, CCVO President & CEO, will focus on what Budget 2022 means for the nonprofit sector, and then open to audience Q&A.
AGENDA
2:00 – 2:05: welcome
2:05 – 2:20: budget analysis walk-through
2:20 – 3:00: panel discussion
3:00 – 3:15: audience Q&A
PANELLISTS
Michelle Hynes-Dawson | Vice President, Community & Digital Engagement, Association Services, YMCA of Northern Alberta
Diane Kenyon | Consultant, Strategy, Leadership, Engagement & Public Affairs
Naheed Nenshi | Community Builder, The Ascend Group
Bob Wyatt | Executive Director, The Muttart Foundation
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REGISTRATION NOTE
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panellist bios
Michelle Hynes-Dawson
Vice President, Community & Digital Engagement, Association Services, YMCA Alberta
Michelle Hynes-Dawson is an energetic marketing and communications professional with a passion for strategic planning, out-of-the-box thinking and building empowered teams. A member of the YMCA of Northern Alberta team, as Vice President, Community & Digital Engagement, she brings 15 years of issues management, stakeholder relations and community engagement experience. Prior to joining the YMCA, Michelle lent her skills to a variety of provincial government ministries and agencies across three provinces. Having achieved a Master of Public Relations from Mount Saint Vincent University and Certificate of Change Leadership from Cornell University, Michelle is a self-proclaimed life-long learner.
Diane Kenyon
Consultant, Strategy, Leadership, Engagement & Public Affairs
Diane Kenyon is a mission-driven consultant and experienced executive who has dedicated her career to building organizations and impact across the public, non-profit, and educational sectors. With expertise in strategy, stakeholder engagement, marketing and communications, and government relations, she has spent more than thirty years providing counsel, leading great teams, and developing complex initiatives to enhance reputation, engagement and support for organizations, ideas and communities she is passionate about. Prior to consulting, Diane was Vice-President, University Relations at the University of Calgary and held leadership roles at Ryerson University, CBC/Radio-Canada, and the Royal Ontario Museum. She is a life-long advocate for the non-profit sector, arts and culture, and building great communities. Diane is also a committed volunteer and currently serves as Vice-Chair, Board of Directors for the Vancouver-based Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition.
Naheed K. Nenshi
Community Builder, The Ascend Group
Naheed K. Nenshi served as Calgary’s mayor for three terms between 2010 and 2021. During his time, Calgary became one of the greatest cities in the world, named as the best city in which to live in the Western Hemisphere.
His leadership saw an unprecedented investment in quality of life including transit, roads, recreation centres and libraries including the magnificent Central Library, while keeping taxes the lowest in Canada. His time as mayor also saw the City of Calgary through four states of emergency, including devastating flooding in 2013 floods and the COVID-19 pandemic.
He also became an international voice on urban issues, with audiences across Canada and around the world, including the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Naheed was awarded the World Mayor Prize as the best mayor in the world in 2014 by The City Mayors Foundation. He also has received the President’s Award from the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Humanitarian Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for his contribution to community mental health. Maclean’s magazine once called him the second-most influential person in Canada, after the Prime Minister, much to the amusement of his mother.
Prior to his election, Naheed served as Canada’s first tenured professor of nonprofit management at the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University. Before entering academia, he was a management consultant for global consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and ran his own firm, Ascend Group, where his client list included the United Nations, where he worked on how corporations can help the world’s poorest people, and The Gap.
Naheed is a graduate of the University of Calgary, where he served as President of the Students’ Union, and holds a Master of Public Policy Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he studied as a Kennedy Fellow. He is a proud first-generation Canadian of Indian ancestry, whose parents immigrated from Tanzania. His family and his Ismaili Muslim faith instilled in him the ethic of seva – service to the community, something he tries to live every day.
Bob Wyatt
Executive Director, The Muttart Foundation
Bob has been executive director of The Muttart Foundation since 1989. Prior to that, his career was in public and government relations in the public and private sectors. For much of the last 25 years, he has been extensively involved in issues of public policy, particularly those that relate to the regulation of charities. That involvement included serving as the co-chair of the Joint Regulatory Table of the Voluntary Sector Initiative, a federal government move to improve the relationship between government and voluntary organizations. He lectures annually on policy issues and on governance issues in Carleton University’s Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership program. He is the co-editor of two books – one dealing with regulation of charities and a more recent one outlining the history of, and issues within, Canada’s charitable sector. He has been awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to the sector and in 2017, was awarded an honourary doctor of laws degree by Carleton University for his leadership in, and stewardship of, Canada’s charities and public-benefit nonprofits.
