Vibhuti is a seasoned non-profit leader and community builder with expertise in strategic and sustainable organizational development. She is skilled in leading multidisciplinary teams to develop strategic collaborations, inspire collective action, and deliver innovative and impactful programs that promote community health, belonging, and well-being. She has over two decades of experience working at diverse national, regional, and local community-based non-profit organizations in Canada and the United States.

She has extensive experience in embedding intersectional feminist, anti-oppression, anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion principles into practice at all levels of the organization. Vibhuti has developed and led a range of community health, inclusion, and social impact initiatives including community-led HIV and Hep C prevention; access to dignified care and wellness promotion for people living with HIV/AIDS; inclusive and safer spaces for 2SLGBTQ+ community members and people who use drugs; advocacy on paid sick days and family leave policies for workers with caregiving responsibilities; and health care systems advocacy and community education to support individuals experiencing gender-based violence.

Vibhuti is also an educator and facilitates learning and skills development in Community Outreach, Sociology of Health, and Non-Profit Funding and Grant Writing related to social service and community mental health practice.  She helps students gain awareness of factors impacting sustainability of non-profit organizations in Ontario with a specific focus on the mental health and settlement sectors, provide a sociological framework for understanding social determinants of population health, and theoretical and practical approaches to effective community engagement for health promotion.

Kaitlyn has nearly 20 years experience in the non-profit sector, working at all levels from frontline staff to governance boards. She has worked in evaluation-facing roles for the past eight years, both supporting evaluators as they complete projects as well as working with professional organizations such as SLC to ensure high-quality event and program management.

A guiding principle in her work is using the power of narrative and stories in order to create change. Kaitlyn has extensive experience collecting and analyzing qualitative data, including conducting interviews and focus groups with program participants and stakeholders. She has developed a passion for projects that grow organizations, and for opportunities to work with clients who seek change.

Kaitlyn is also the part-time Administrative Coordinator of the Canadian Evaluation Society – Ontario Chapter, where she serves the chapter’s members and promotes the value of evaluation across the province.

Among her many initiatives, she launched and managed three major front-line self-employment programs for women and collaborated with 20+ organizations to offer workshops, conferences, coaching and mentorship to 1,200+ entrepreneurs, immigrants, visible minorities, women. She developed a related website and workbook for newcomers, and a series of videos about entrepreneurship. Since 2013, she has honed her expertise in financial literacy and the financial education of vulnerable populations, facilitating over 60 workshops on budget, credit, debt, entrepreneurial finances, and investment readiness.

Founder and director of Next Level Impact Consulting and a regular radio columnist on personal finances for Radio Canada Toronto, Fayza has participated as a bilingual expert, public speaker, and panelist for provincial and federal conferences such as Toronto Global Forum. She is also an active member of both provincial and federal level committees and roundtables, including the economic committee for the Ontario Minister of Francophone Affairs.

Fayza is a graduate in philosophy and communications, and is currently enrolled in a Public Leadership credential with the Harvard Kennedy School.

Paul has 15 years of experience in working with government and social purpose organization to help them evaluate their impact and learn how to better support people and communities. Paul uses a principles-focused, asset-oriented, and equitable approach to evaluating social programs and initiatives. He specializes in Principles-Focused, Developmental, and rigorous Impact Evaluations.

Aligned with the Sustainable Livelihood Framework’s focus on helping people build a holistic and interdependent set of assets, Paul works in many sectors: including poverty reduction, education, employment, youth development, arts and recreation, environment, and health.

Catherine inspires and supports innovators in community economic and social development. She has worked in management and consulting with social economy organizations for over 30 years, balancing her grass roots community work with research and knowledge creation at the national, provincial and regional levels.

A seasoned facilitator, presenter and adult educator, Catherine has offered workshops and webinars related to organizational learning, evaluation, and impact measurement; social enterprise and innovation; non-profit sustainability; and collaboration. She has co-designed tools and guides, among them: Innovation Pathways: Tools for Rural & Northern Community Innovation; Strengthening Collaboration in the Not-for-Profit Sector (Ontario Trillium Foundation); and Collaboration Coach, an online platform for nonprofit collaboration.

As an evaluator Catherine has worked with diverse community-based organizations as well as their funders to inform and assess their impact, help them to communicate their impact stories, and develop their evaluation, monitoring and learning tools and systems. She is a founding champion of the Common Foundations for Impact Measurement, an initiative originally of Carleton University, and an impact measurement and developmental evaluation coach with Innoweave.

Catherine has worked extensively in the social innovation ecosystem in Canada. She is a social enterprise coach and an editor of the Canadian Social Enterprise Guide and co-founded the Ontario-based Rural Social Enterprise Constellation (RSEC). She has co-authored multiple papers focused on rural social enterprise and rural development and policy and advised numerous urban and rural social enterprises and their intermediaries including: Innoweave (McConnell Foundation); the Toronto Enterprise Fund/ United Way Toronto; Canadian Women’s Foundation; The Co-operators Community Fund; Toronto Atmospheric Fund; Georgian College Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation and the Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre; Futurepreneur; and the former Peel United Way.

She holds a Masters degree in Adult Education as well as a BA in Sociology and Philosophy and a Bachelor of Social Work.