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Penny Goldsmith

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Ms. Penny Goldsmith is a British Columbia social justice advocate and PovNet Society’s Executive Co-ordinator since July 1997. She was awarded the Inaugural Alan Thomas Fellowship to Promote Civil Society and Voluntary Action. She received a $50,000 award to prepare a casebook to help communities integrate online tools for information sharing and social justice networking into their practice.penny-on-the-bus1.jpg

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  • Call for applications for the 2012 Alan Thomas Fellowship

    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

    June 27, 2011 The Carold Institute announced today the recipient of the 2011 Alan Thomas Fellowship, a $60,000 grant established to provide a sabbatical year to an award applicant wanting to reflect on, and research issues that advance citizenship, participation, and social change.  The 2011 award winner is John B. Cox of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, [...]

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  • Two NGO leaders each awarded $60,000 Carold Institute Alan Thomas Fellowships to advance the understanding of social movements in Canada

    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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