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  Keenan Wellar 8:53 pm on March 30, 2010 | 0 Comment Permalink | Reply
  

  Already posted here in detail but forgot contact information! I’ve contributed to the start-up and growth of two different charities in Ottawa, LiveWorkPlay (http://liveworkplay.ca) where I am CEO and we are undergoing an important shift from social services to social change, and Heartwood House (http://heartwoodhouse.ca) where I am currently Chair of the Board of Directors and leading a Strategic Planning process to position the organization for stability and growth to 2014. I am a graduate of the MA in Linguistics and Applied Languages Studies at Carleton and currently completing the Non-Profit Marketing professional certificate at Sprott/Carleton.

  I am hungry for ideas an inspiration beyond my own little world! Very much looking forward to this event and grateful for the opportunity.

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  Keenan Wellar 8:51 pm on March 28, 2010 | 0 Comment Permalink | Reply
  

  Hi, my academic background is History (BA), Education (BEd), Applied Linguistics (MA), and currently completing a Professional Certificate in Non-Profit Marketing at Sprott (Carleton). I am very interested in social marketing in the non-profit sector – delivering meaningful change instead of delivering outputs that are all to frequently of internal benefit only.

  My main passion in life is to change the way communities include people with intellectual disabilities, so although as CEO of LiveWorkPlay.ca I am responsible for overseeing social service activities, the greater mission is one of social change – to change the attitudes and behaviour of the 97% of people who don’t know anything about people with intellectual disabilities, their needs, their abilities, or their current situation in society – grossly unemployed and underemployed, living in restrictive settings like 24/7 staffed group homes, and often very little if any control over their own life decisions.

  I have been active with internet communities since 1995 and worked on SchoolNet for 2 years before leaving full-time for LiveWorkPlay. I am a big proponent of social media as a critical social marketing and community-building tool. It has helped are relatively tiny agency get our message out more effectively than other organizations in our sector with 10x the budget.

  Something I am very excited about with LiveWorkPlay lately is that we have been engaging large numbers of volunteers in their 20s and 30s in our work, and it is bringing new life and new ideas to the table.

  I am wide open to talking about partnerships, especially outside of the developmental services sector. Some of our best partnerships are with private and non-profit organizations that started out with zero awareness of our field but what we had in common was an interest in positive change.