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Human Resources committee  One thing I think your point speaks to is why we need social financing, quite frankly. Everybody is asked from every direction for more and more money. We do try to create measurable results. We do try, and I know every agency tries, to communicate as much as possible the resul

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello

Human Resources committee  As well, I think social organizations need to take a better business perspective when they go into these programs. They have to do a proper business plan, for lack of a better word. If they were able to do that, then they could put measurements that were attainable, and knowing w

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry. I get excited.

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello

Human Resources committee  I would just comment that it's really important to understand that the scale of the solution has to meet the scale of the issue. So it's not us or them or any one individual, it's the combination. I think we need the support all the way through, with all three organizations—the s

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Yes, the community learning kitchen, when it comes to employment and training and things like that, we do with our social enterprise. We also bring people in from the low-income community, students and others, and we train them in basic cooking skills. Some of them w

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'm going to talk to you a bit little about the operational, about the groundwork that's happening. We're in western Mississauga. We have about a quarter of a million people in our area that we serve. Of that, about 17%, or 40,000 people, would be considered potentia

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Peter Costello