Public Safety committee  I would support that position. I think what's interesting is that depending on how the vehicles are set up, and I just think of Alberta, and northern Alberta with the oil sands development—

Public Safety committee  —and the other issues that are there, the opportunity is potentially there to have those companies, if we set up and support those communities and talk about how they want to deal with and address the issue of crime. This might be a very effective avenue, where there are intermed

Public Safety committee  No, I don't think so.

Public Safety committee  I think for me the key element is that each one of these is going to be centric to the community. I think Jacqueline talked about that quite clearly around the capacities of each community, the big-P and small-p political will, and who are your champions within that community. I

Public Safety committee  My plea is to let me do the work.

Public Safety committee  The calls we were talking about are repeat calls for service. The homes we go into are non-charge in the first place. There are about 16,000 calls a year that are domestic incidents, and typically 3,000 of those, give or take, will result in a criminal charge. That still leaves 1

Public Safety committee  They are absolutely critical. A well-run non-profit and a social serving agency should be collecting and evaluating its data. It's good business. It's good practice. We need to know that we do good work with our clients. The social innovation, the SCIF funding that Jackie talked

Public Safety committee  We've also worked with Finance for Good, which Jackie talked about in her presentation. It is a model that has been talked about, and I think it's probably, of the various types, the most widely known. I know of some other vehicles that work on similar concepts of trying to engag

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I think you just need to look at the rate of philanthropy. I can speak only to Calgary, but we have an amazing philanthropy community. We also have a very strong business community, and a lot of times when we speak to them about philanthropy, they're asking us busines

Public Safety committee  Absolutely; first, they bring independent knowledge. If they are establishing criteria to support the valuation, measuring the social impact,and setting the standards as an independent body, they become neutral in what they are presenting, and then they can fairly present that to

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure there isn't anything that can't be funded by this type of model. I know that differs from what the previous presenter talked about. The reason is that I don't think we're being creative enough in measuring the impact on the issues. If we get creative—and I think th

Public Safety committee  As I said earlier, I don't think it is “the” answer. I think it is part of a menu of options. What for me is exciting is that it is a very new menu that may open up a broader range of resources that we can make use of. Our agency would be a demonstration of success. Government ha

Public Safety committee  About 80% of our funding comes from the Government of Alberta. We are supplementing that with additional dollars from foundations, United Way, and private philanthropy.

Public Safety committee  No. We do not have federal funding at this point.

Public Safety committee  I think you outlined the potential opportunities that might be available. Some negative consequences that may come from that...and I'm not sure they're negative. I think they may lead to improved capacity and professionalism amongst the non-profits. I talked about this earlier