WHO WE ARE
Theā€ÆCentre for Employment Innovationā€Æ(CEI) at St. Francis Xavier (StFX) University works alongside communities to strengthen the development and delivery of employment services in Nova Scotia through various activities, partnerships, projects and research.
The CEI works diligently with its partners to:
- enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within workplaces;
- foster exemplary career development practices;
- conduct applied and practitioner-based research;
- provide distributed systems leadership;
- foster a more skilled, resilient, and productive workforce;
- encourage collaboration for a greater collective impact for all Nova Scotians.
As part of a systems-focused approach to employment services excellence, the CEI conducts many of its activities in collaboration with Nova Scotia Works and other provincial employment services providers, the Nova Scotia Career Development Association (NSCDA), and the Government of Nova Scotiaā€™s Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration.
Land & Labour Acknowledgement
The Centre for Employment Innovation operates on the ancestral, unceded territory of Miā€™kmaā€™ki, which holds a complex history ofā€”and continues to be impacted byā€”exploitation, violence, and colonization. We acknowledge Miā€™kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people as the original caretakers of this land and recognize the failure of colonial institutions and systems to maintain the Treaties of Peace and Friendship that were intended to guide our presence here.
We also acknowledge the historical presence and contributions of African Nova Scotians and Persons of African descent, whose forced labour played a significant role in forming the foundations of this province, and whose own relationship with land has been complicated by the impacts of slavery and colonization. The labour of refugee and immigrant groups, as well, has been exploited towards the same end.
Race and Indigeneity have been used as tools to oppress and repress various communities across these lands, and the intentional and unintentional maintenance of otherness continues to cause harm and contribute to the grief and trauma of historically excluded groups. As an organization, we take responsibility for learning and seeking long-term transformation in our relationships with land and labour in our province.
LATEST RESOURCES
Governance as Shared Leadership for Nonprofits
In this three-part blog series, Erin Kang discusses the concept of governance as shared leadership, expanding on the topic, highlighting benefits of adoption, and providing tips and tricks for organizations to adopt this approach to governance.
Governance Framework: Mapping a Nonprofit Organization’s Governance System
This resource, from the Ontario Nonprofit Network, provides a tool to map out an organization’s governance and respective related roles, functions, and resposnibilities.
Nonprofit Governance and Accountability
Tracey Coule highlights the relationships between governance and accountability. This article reviews four governance theories of accountability and encourages practitioners to be aware of and explicit about the value systems and assumptions underpinning work organizations.
Events
october, 2024