Since April 2024, I have been facilitating the Stewarding Loss Community of Practice as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation‘s Emerging Futures Initiative. Here are the write ups for these sessions

WaterSHED was a a 10-year old time-boxed initiative to increase access to clean water in Cambodia.

We had a lively conversation with members of the Stopping As Success: Locally-Led Transitions In Development Consortium (SAS+)

Erin Richardson, PhD runs a museum services consultancy and used the session to ask: who, what, and how long are museums for?

Naomi is a consultant and serial interim nonprofit director. In this session, she spoke about her platform for crafting graceful leadership transitions.

Moore and Wambold used their article “Only Loss” to lead the group through a discussion and interactive exercise on digital loss and the possibility of intentional degradation.

The Endings Project is an initative of the University of Victoria’s Department of Digital Humanities. It has created tools, principles, policies and recommendations for digital scholarship practitioners to create accessible, stable, long-lasting resources in the humanities.

​Some of the questions they are attempting to answer include “how should we preserve projects to retain their dynamic features” & “where should projects be archived?”

Catarina Moreno is a Vancouver-based nonprofit executive who has served as interim director for several nonprofits. She shared how she successfully worked to wind down several nonprofits and transition the mission-driven programmatic work to partner organizations.