Pillar Nonprofit Network and the London Middlesex Mental Health and Addiction Strategic Direction Office (SDO) have issued a joint media release highlighting the SDO's new report on retired and retiring nonprofit leaders and a launch event planned for Wednesdy, April 10, 2024.
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New Report Captures Insights from Retiring Leaders in Mental Health & Addiction
LONDON, ON. April 5, 2024 – Four retired and retiring leaders from London’s nonprofit sector, including the mental health and addiction sector, will be gathering at a public event next week to discuss the findings of a new report that records lessons they’ve learned in leadership.
The panel discussion is part of the Leadership and Frontline Legacy Project funded by the London Community Foundation and conducted by the London Middlesex Mental Health and Addiction Strategic Direction Office (SDO) and serves as the launch of their new report, You Don’t Need to be Everything for Everyone: Lessons Learned in Mental Health and Addiction Nonprofit Leadership.
The project involved interviewing nine departing leaders and the SDO identified six key themes, including the greatest successes in the sector, the greatest challenges, helpful resources, important lessons, how system change works, and succession planning.
Based on the interviews and identified themes, the SDO report also makes five recommendations, including strategic collaboration, succession planning strategies, political engagement, resource maximization, and stigma reduction initiatives, with stigma identified as both an area of progress and a continuing barrier to effective service delivery.
The event is being co-hosted by Pillar Nonprofit Network, a longtime advocate for the regional nonprofit sector, including its workers and leaders. Pillar CEO Maureen Cassidy comments, “This coming wave of leadership succession in the sector has been on our radar for some time. For the entire nonprofit sector, it’s vital that we retain as much of the wisdom and knowledge of those leaders as possible. They’ve positioned our sector to be a strong collaborator, together with business and government, in seeking whole of community solutions like the health and homelessness response. We’re thrilled to host this panel discussion, and we’re looking forward to listening and learning.”
The event is Wednesday, April 10, 9-12pm at Innovation Works and the public can register on the Pillar Nonprofit Network events page. The panel includes Anne Armstrong, Executive Director of London Cares; Carl Cadogan, Senior Regional Manager Southwestern Ontario of the Kidney Foundation of Canada; Brian Lester, retired Executive Director of Regional HIV/AIDS Connection; and Michelle Quintyn, retired CEO of Goodwill Industries, Ontario Great Lakes. The panel discussion will be moderated by Mariam Waliji, Vice-President of Equity, Impact & Governance at Pillar Nonprofit Network.
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