Applying Porter’s notion of NCA to understand how local industries which support national mining industries have, in some cases, evolved along his continuum of NCA from factor-driven NCA, to investment-driven NCA, to innovation-driven NCA, this analysis shall illustrate where the LPRM may support local industries through this evolution. Potential countries of entry and subsequent modes […]
Mining Shared Value (MSV) is an initiative of Engineers Without Borders Canada (a Canadian non-profit organization), focused on “helping the global mining sector and related stakeholders maximize local procurement of goods and services.” The flag-ship initiative of MSV is the Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism (LPRM); “a set of disclosures that seeks to standardize how the […]
According to a study by the Ontario Not-for-Profit Network, “most technical requirements of non-for-profit organizations in Ontario are outsourced.” The study presents evidence that this suggests a fundamental and systemic issue, impeding the participation of many organizations, in digital transformation, given what will be the requirement of the “centrality of technology to many organizations” (ONN, […]
The abundance of third-sector authored literature, conveys that anecdotally and empirically, there is a digital skills gap in the Third Sector. The Non-profit Technology Enterprise Network report, 2017 Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report showed that while the majority of surveyed nonprofits in Ontario feel they have the tools they need, they” are less confident […]
Data from Statistics Canada’s 2006 “Report on the Volunteer & Charitable Sector,” shows that of the organizations which fall within the standard distribution of the annual revenue of Ontario’s volunteer and charitable organizations (i.e. the Third Sector), 54% have annual revenues under $100,000; 35% between $100,000 to $1,000,000 and 11% over $1,000,000. The organizations which […]