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Over a remarkable 40-year career, Sherman Kreiner led breakthrough initiatives in worker ownership, labour-sponsored venture capital, and, most recently, university sustainable real-estate development. His leadership and innovation inspired multiple generations of owners and employees, community organizers, Indigenous leaders, non-profit managers, lawyers, architects, policymakers and higher education executives, among others. On the first anniversary of Sherman’s…(Read more)

We are pleased to announce that Katharine Im-Jenkins, Chief Programs Officer at WUSC, a leading Canadian international development NGO, has been recognized as one of the Ottawa region’s top young leaders as a member of the 2020 Top 40 Under 40.  A valued partner and colleague, and a dedicated champion of gender equality, Katherine has…(Read more)

UN Women has published its feminist framework to guide Covid recovery plans. As the Indian magazine Swaddle reports, the framework “identifies five priorities for governments to focus on in order to tackle the gender bias prompted by the pandemic: reduction of gender-based violence, including domestic violence; introduction of social protection and economic stimulus packages to…(Read more)

On May 8, 2020, Ted Jackson, President of E.T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., was named the 2020 recipient of the Global Service Award of the Alumni Association of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.  The Institute confers the award to celebrate “an extraordinary individual for commitment to addressing the…(Read more)

The Gavi Alliance, co-founded by the Gates Foundation, UNICEF and the World Health Organization, has immunized 760 million children in the world’s poorest countries, preventing 13 million deaths (see www.gavi.org).  Gavi recently published a paper entitled :Why a gender lens is needed for the Covid-19 response,” noting the pandemic tens to kill more men than…(Read more)

Writing in The Times of India, Dr. Rajesh Tandon, President of the NGO PRIA, presents a range of ideas on how India’s 1,000 universities and 42,000 colleges and their 37 million students and two million faculty and staff can help address the Covid-19 crisis.  He recommends that these institutions: “1) Redesign curriculum of current courses…(Read more)

From impact investment funds and foundations to development agencies, development finance institutions and governments, all of the organizations that Jackson and Associates works with are taking action to slow the spread of COVID-19 and treat the sick.  The challenges are especially severe in the world’s least developed countries.  Writing on the World Economic Forum’s website,…(Read more)

It’s rare that we recognize the major capacities universities and colleges have in real estate construction and investment management, but these are major advantages to community campus partnerships building affordable housing with and for local neighbourhood associations.

On February 13, 2020, a dozen supporters from the region participated in a seminar on the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), which campaigns for farmworkers’ rights, and the Fair Food Program (FFP), which works with major retailers to ensure decent working conditions and fair wages in the tomato industry along the US…(Read more)

The Bloomberg business-news service has reported that: “Nine of the biggest ESG mutual funds in the U.S. outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index last year, and seven of them beat their market benchmarks over the past five years.”  For 2019, top performers included the Ave Maria Growth Fund (nearly $900 M in assets), the…(Read more)