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Paula Carr

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Paula Carr has worked in the community services sector and with municipal and provincial departments, supporting leadership within locally based organizations for over 30 years in Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.  Paula is currently the Executive Director of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House, a non-profit centre delivering a wide variety of community-based services ranging from childcare and recreation to settlement services and capacity building in a highly multicultural Vancouver neighbourhood. For 25 years, CNH has been a leader in integrated service delivery and organizational development. Under Paula’s leadership, over 200 new services and supports and more than 140 sustained collaborative partnerships have been developed. In 2007, CNH was recognized internationally with the European BMW Award for Intercultural Learning.

 Paula is a certified Executive Coach, holding a degree in leisure studies from the University of Ottawa, and has developed strong skills, abilities and experience in the areas of leadership development, and building intercultural communities and workplaces. 

Fellowship Project : An analysis of the methodologies around welcoming, creating socially inclusive environments and developing intercultural leadership that have distinguished the community development practices of a Neighbourhood House in a highly culturally diverse Vancouver neighbourhood, in order to create resources for work in similar contexts.

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    January 9, 2012 We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2012 Alan Thomas Fellowship to Promote Civil Society and Voluntary Action. First awarded in 2008, there are now six Fellowship recipients. The 2012 Fellowship will again be awarded to a leader in the NGO/not-for-profit sector, who would not normally have access [...]

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  • The Carold Institute announces the 2011 Alan Thomas Fellowship award

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    The Carold Institute announced today that two outstanding leaders in the non-governmental sector have been awarded this year’s Carold Institute Alan Thomas Fellowships. Paula Carr has worked in the community services sector for over 30 years in Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. She is currently the Executive Director of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House, a non-profit [...]

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