TMCIS Book Launch & Learn - Non-profits Serving Immigrants: Voices on Challenges in Uncertain Times

This event was convened by Dr. Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Academic Director of Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS), hosted by TMCIS, and was co-sponsored by the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Department of Politics and Public Administration and Fernwood Publishing Ltd. 

Description:

This event served as the book launch of The Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community, written by Ted Richmond and John Shields. The event featured a seminar that brought together important non-profit sector voices to reflect on contemporary challenges faced by the sector and the migrant and other communities they serve. Emerging from the pandemic crisis, immigrant settlement service agencies and other non-profit providers confront many pressing issues from funding to HR to rapidly increasing service demands in a political environment shifting towards the embrace of austerity. The timely release of the volume The Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community offers a point of critical consideration of some of these developments. Leading non-profit actors and the book’s authors share their perspectives on what challenges and opportunities await in these uncertain times.

Chair: 

Dr. Zhixi Zhuang - Academic Director, Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement

Panellists:

Dr. John Shields (external link)  - Author, The Canadian Non-profit Sector (external link) , TMU Professor Emeritus

Ted Richmond (external link)  - Author, The Canadian Non-profit Sector (external link) 

Axelle Janczur (external link)  - Executive Director, Access Alliance (external link) 

Mwarigha (external link)  - Vice President of Housing, Homelessness, Asset Sustainability & New Development, WoodGreen Community Services (external link) 

Maureen Fair (external link)  - Executive Director, West Neighbourhood House (external link)