Community Spotlight

Insightful new research from CoGenerate dives into whether older and younger people want to work together to help others and improve the world around them. (Spoiler alert: They do.) Read here.

Cresa’s 2023 benchmark report is full of learning about office space trends and their impact on work culture, talent attraction, productivity, and more in Canada’s nonprofit sector. Read here.

Every year, B Lab and the global B Corp community join together to celebrate everything it means to be a B Corp. For Challenge Factory, it means aligning our purpose, values, and business decisions—and always moving forward to a sustainable Future of Work where no one is left behind. Learn more.

This unique program is engaging a new “midlife evolver” audience in work-integrated learning. An evolver is someone who’s curious to explore what comes next as they consider or navigate a career transition. Read here.

At Cannexus24, we’re releasing an evidence base about the size and membership of Canada’s career development sector. Learn more. We’re grateful to so many sector participants, including project partners CERIC and CCDF.

Chip Conley’s new book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age, releases this month. Conley is an NYT-bestselling author and friend of Challenge Factory.

Challenge Factory is on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram!

Every November, Canadians from coast to coast to coast celebrate the importance of accessing meaningful work and all those who help us in build our preferred futures. Learn more.

True Patriot Love’s National Tribute Dinner brings together business and community leaders, military representatives, and dignitaries for two nights of celebration. Learn more.

They’ve launched two opportunities for new journalism on ageing: The Journalism in Ageing Prize and Journalism in Ageing Fellowship.

Submit a nomination for CERIC’s Etta St. John Wileman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career Development. The deadline is September 15. Learn more.

Through its Sprout Ideas Fellowship, TakingITGlobal is working with over 100 young Canadians to foster social innovation through community impact projects. Learn more about the Fellows and youth-led movement, and how you can amplify their impact in your community or organization.

Every month, the “Land acknowledgment and action” section of Challenge Factory’s newsletter, the Flip, offers a different way to learn about and celebrate Indigenous culture and community. We gathered 10 of the best in a short blog to mark National Indigenous History Month. Read here.

Through leadership, research, learning, and campus operations, universities across the country are driving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals forward. Explore all the innovation being led by Universities Canada.

Lisa Taylor will be at the RIA Conference on June 6 to talk about what our ageing population means for business, the economy, and society. The future of responsible investment is being written—let’s get it right. Register.

The McMaster University Retirees Association (MURA) is a fantastic example of how strong relationships with retired employees can contribute to an organization’s mission and community. Check out all the ways MURA members participate in research, ageing initiatives, and planning.

Directed by Erik Gandini, After Work, a film that explores the human drive to be productive, is screening at Hot Docs—online and in theatres—this May. Get tickets.

Lisa Taylor, Challenge Factory’s president, helped CERIC develop this free, three-part webinar series for career development practitioners about antisemitism and allyship strategies, a topic that is often left out of DEI training. You can attend one or all three sessions. Register.

Marc Freedman, founder and co-CEO of CoGenerate, shares his expertise about age diversity and long-life learning on PBS NewsHour’s Brief But Spectacular segment. Watch here.

In this timely Careering article, Candy Ho explores why career development professionals should use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to help individuals find purpose and direction in their careers. Read here.

The National Institute on Ageing released a report on how Canada can help more of our ageing population live in their own homes for longer: train postal workers to provide home and community care services. This type of creative job evolution shows how at-risk jobs might be transformed to solve bigger problems, for the betterment of workers and communities. Read the report.

The results are in! This year, the Career Development Professional Centre will launch as a virtual space that builds excellence and innovation in career and workforce development across Canada. Learn more.

Let’s tackle the messiness of today’s workforce and career challenges together. Every month, we spend a virtual hour in guided, casual conversation about a trending work theme. Coffee & Careers is open to all Workforce Architecture subscribers. To join us, learn more and subscribe.

We’re thrilled to be a part of it. Catch up on all of LMIC’s accomplishments and impact in 2022. Read their sleek, reader-friendly annual report.

Big congratulations to the newly renamed CoGenerate! Another fantastic organization is advancing their leadership in intergenerational collaboration to create connection across differences, combat ageism and polarization, and build an equitable, inclusive, joyful world. Learn more.

Veterans and their spouses looking to upskill or reskill can have 100% of their training covered by the new Soldiers in Tech program. Choose from a number of career-driven bootcamps and workshops, including coding, cyber security, data science, and web development. Learn more or apply.

Are you a military Veteran and business owner? Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada wants to hear about your entrepreneurial experiences. Your business successes and failures. The resources that helped you. The resources that you wished you had. Take the survey.

Challenge Factory’s own Ali Breen shared what we’re seeing in the labour market, for jobseekers and employers alike, on CBC’s Cross Country Checkup, Canada’s only phone-in show broadcasting live from coast to coast to coast. She interacted with Canadians in communities across the country who are questioning current job search and hiring challenges. Listen or watch here.

We’re so happy for Lisa Taylor, Challenge Factory’s President, to be joining the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) as an Associate Fellow! She is the only fellow focused on work, employment, and lifelong community engagement. Keep an eye out for Lisa representing the NIA at major symposia, responding to work-related queries from media, and using this fellowship to advance her own research and advocacy. Read more on Global News.

What a win for Canada and True Patriot Love! Alongside Canadians across the country, we’re celebrating the return of the Invictus Games to Canada in 2025. They will be the most accessible to date and, for the first time, incorporate winter adaptive sports. Here’s to the hard work and dedication of True Patriot Love, the Governments of Canada and British Columbia, and the First Nations in Vancouver and Whistler.