Renewal friends' Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm and Peter Strugatz and Miranda Maganini of IceStone (in picture) are featured in Business Week's online edition, America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Ross McMillan, President and CEO of Tides Canada, announced today that Sarah Goodman has joined the organization as Vice President of Business Development and Services. Goodman will help expand Tides' national role as a provider of innovative philanthropic, financial and project management services.

Planetary eco-meltdown, world-wide economic recession, global inequity, war, social injustice, poverty…the list goes on. Reflect for a moment, though, on the big picture. Now is also our chance to step up. A wise perspective might see the human species being called on to sow seeds of change, hope and optimism in time for the fruits to make a difference. As our perspectives, like our information, become more global, reality reminds us that solutions are inevitably local and personal.

Moving beyond traditional investing and newswires to promote a solutions economy

Renewal colleague and investee Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation let us know that he’s launching a new project on Earth Day. Check it out!

On the eve of the festive Tides Renewal Centre’s Open House, I was thrilled to learn that one of the most critical milestones towards protecting the Great Bear Rainforest had been achieved.

Check out this great video that highlights the DTES corridor and the Tides Renewal Centre in 1907 and today.

Our friends at the CSI have created a true hub of networking and social entrepreneurship in Toronto.

A recent article in Ottawa Citizen painted a gloomy picture for Canada’s non-profits, but we see an opportunity for real change.

Over the past 15 years the Endswell Foundation made over 700 grants totalling over $20 million dollars.  From our 1992 inception was the intention to spend down our entire grant making resources over a ten year period.