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Learning to Love Rainstorms: Lessons from 2020
By Loretta Laurin
In Stories + Recipes
Posted January 5, 2021

Learning to Love Rainstorms: Lessons from 2020

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SVI Partner Spotlight: Vancity
By Katya Potapova
In Professional Development, Stories + Recipes
Posted October 27, 2020

SVI Partner Spotlight: Vancity

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union or Vancity, as it is commonly called, has been a longtime partner of Social Venture Institute and Hollyhock. In the spirit of this partnership, Vancity has [...]

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Virtual Connection
By Charlene Lo
In Stories + Recipes
Posted October 23, 2020

Virtual Connection

One of the most inspiring parts of my job is connecting regularly with our brilliant presenters at Hollyhock. A conversation that stands out to me from recent months was with Sarah Crowell, who [...]

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SVI Partner Spotlight: Genus Capital Management
By Katya Potapova
In Professional Development, Stories + Recipes
Posted October 1, 2020

SVI Partner Spotlight: Genus Capital Management

Genus Capital Management Inc. has been offering innovative investment solutions for more than a quarter century. Now, Genus is championing Canada’s divest-invest movement with Fossil Free and [...]

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SVI Partner Spotlight: BDC
By Katya Potapova
In Professional Development, Stories + Recipes
Posted October 1, 2020

SVI Partner Spotlight: BDC

Getting funding as an entrepreneur is not always easy, but luckily The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) prides itself as being the only bank exclusively devoted to entrepreneurs. The BDC [...]

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The Long Game
By Peter Wrinch
In Stories + Recipes
Posted September 30, 2020

The Long Game

It was August 15th. That was the day that the full reality of the pandemic hit me full force. It was then that I realized that we are in this for the long game – virtual connections, [...]

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SVI Partner Spotlight: Horizon Distributors
By Katya Potapova
In Professional Development, Stories + Recipes
Posted September 30, 2020

SVI Partner Spotlight: Horizon Distributors

Horizon Distributors has been supporting SVI and its community for over a decade. We sat down (virtually) with Vice President Terri Newell who shared what lessons she and Horizon have learned in [...]

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Thinking on the Work Ahead….
By Mike Rowlands
In Stories + Recipes
Posted August 13, 2020

Thinking on the Work Ahead….

Hollyhock’s garden was magnificent as ever when I visited campus in July, despite the changes and many program cancelations this season. My wife and I watched bees and hummingbirds flitting [...]

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Theres Always Growth
By Bill Weaver
In Stories + Recipes
Posted July 10, 2020

Theres Always Growth

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Discovering the Capacity for Resilience
By Loretta Laurin
In Stories + Recipes
Posted July 10, 2020

Discovering the Capacity for Resilience

Here we are, more than halfway through the year 2020. Earlier this year, as the fires waged in Australia and people amassed behind the climate marches, I felt a complex surge of grief and [...]

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Black Lives Matter
By Peter Wrinch
In Stories + Recipes
Posted June 4, 2020

Black Lives Matter

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. Nina Pop. These are the names of five human beings who, in the past few months, have lost their lives for no reason other than the colour [...]

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Practice in Grace
By Penelope Naldrett
In Stories + Recipes
Posted May 6, 2020

Practice in Grace

As Hollyhock’s Development Director, I have the privilege of learning from many of our amazing presenters. A couple weeks ago, I tuned in to listen to Hollyhock’s Sheltering in Community [...]

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