Exclusively for PFC Members In Person Online

Investment Roundtable Meetings

11 June 2024 - 19 November 2024 / Registration Open

Who? | Audience

All existing Roundtable members, together with all other Board directors and staff who oversee investments in their respective PFC member foundations, are invited to attend the next hybrid meetings of this Peer Learning initiative chaired by PFC Board Director MJ Sinha.

When?

  • Tuesday, June 11 @ 1 PM (Hybrid)
  • Monday, September 23 @ 2 PM ET (in person at PFC Conference in Ottawa)
  • Tuesday, November 19 @ 1 PM ET (Hybrid)

Where?

  • Online, in person or hybrid, according to dates

What? | Program

Typical Schedule

  • 12:30-1:00 PM ET (when Hybrid) : Networking coffee for in-person attendees at Foundation House, followed at 1 PM by a roundtable discussion between in-person and online attendees
  • 1:00-2:30 PM ET (when online only): Roundtable Discussion
    • Words of Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, Context-Setting, Tour de Table
    • Open discussion
    • Other topics of interest to members
    • Summary and Next Steps

How? | Registration:

  • All existing members of the Investment Roundtable will have received a calendar invite with a link for the videoconference, along with email reminders with online meeting details.
  • If you have not yet received such emails, please email programming@pfc.ca.

André Pawan Vashist

Director, Learning & Collaboration

A multi award winning social innovator, André has 20 years of experience in community wellbeing and transformations and is a facilitator of multi-stakeholder collaborations that are working towards social and ecological justice.

At his core, he is a dedicated family member with two children, a lover of the land with joy for being outdoors, a poet who expresses openly about life’s journey, and a collaborationist who currently sits on the Board of Libro Credit Union and Advisor to Carolinian Canada’s conservation finance project.

Co-designing solutions to shared challenges is where André likes to infuse his magic by weaving identities with a healing centered approach - connecting the inner and outer work as we attempt transformations to solve societal challenges. Watch this TEDx Talk to learn more about André.

Jean-Marc Mangin

President & CEO

Jean-Marc has been President & CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada since 2019. He currently sits on the Government of Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector, the Advisory Council for Carleton University’s Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (MPNL) program, and the management committee of PhiLab, the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Research Network.

Prior to PFC, Jean-Marc led a renewal process of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest national organization of Canadian researchers and scholars as its Executive Director.

He also has had a long career serving in international development with the UN, NGOs, and the Canadian Government in responding to global humanitarian disasters and development challenges. As CUSO Executive Director, he led a merger with VSO-Canada, and he was the first Executive Director of Global Call for Climate Action, a cross-sector civil society initiative supporting transformational change to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Born in Manitoba, raised in Quebec, and educated in BC and Ontario, he holds an MA in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto.

MJ Sinha

Director

Former Board Member, The Helderleigh Foundation

Board Member