Join a Peer Community
Supportive Communities with a common focus.
Learn about our Peer Communities
Connect with other non-profit individuals and organizations around specific capacity building, organizational development, and systems change topics. A peer community is a group of passionate non-profit leaders who convene around a sector-wide topic, in an environment that supports peer-to-peer learning.
By joining a peer community, you will connect with prominent leaders addressing current issues faced by non-profits in BC. These groups provide a casual yet intentional environment where participants connect regularly to exchange insights, discuss challenges, and explore resources.
Peer Community participants meet regularly to take learnings, discussions, and resources back to their organizations.
Key Features:
- Peer-to-Peer Learning: Participants gain valuable perspectives and ideas to bring back to their organizations.
- Flexible and Evolving Discussions: While each group has a defined purpose and topic, the discussions naturally evolve based on participants’ interests and emerging priorities.
- Minimal Preparation Required: Meetings are accessible, with little to no preparation needed to join and engage meaningfully.
- Participant-Driven Initiatives: Projects may arise organically from these discussions, led and sustained by group members.
Peer Communities align closely with the BC Non-Profit Network’s mission to convene and connect the sector, growing relationships and encouraging collaborative innovation. Whether you’re seeking solutions to organizational challenges, fresh ideas, or simply a supportive network, Peer Communities provide a platform to engage with others who share your passion for non-profit work.
Current Peer Communities
- Provincial Organizations Collaborative
- Advocacy and Government Relations
- ED Unplugged
- Reimagining Governance Peer Community
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Peer Community
- Capacity Investor Collaborative
Provincial Organizations Collaborative
The Provincial Organizations Collaborative is a space for provincial and umbrella organizations to align and coordinate advocacy initiatives. The overall goal of this Collaborative is to generate support and solidarity around issues that matter most to our sector. The Collaborative is hosted by Vantage Point and meets on a quarterly basis.
If you are interested in this peer community, please contact us at engagement@thevantagepoint.ca
Advocacy and Government Relations Peer Community – COMING SOON
In response to sector interest and need, Vantage Point will soon launch a monthly Advocacy and Government Relations Peer Community. This is an opportunity for non-profit leaders to support and learn from each other in this important area of capacity building.
If you are interested in this peer community, please contact us at engagement@thevantagepoint.ca
ED Unplugged Peer Community
ED Unplugged is a monthly event in which Executive Directors – including CEOs, Artistic Directors, General Managers, and other non-profit senior staff members – come together to learn and support each other, discuss challenges, dilemmas, and questions surrounding a variety of topics of interest, and build a community of non-profit leaders from across BC.
This group regularly invites speakers to join to share or reflect on an area of interest as suggested by participants. Previous topics include media relations, fundraising, digital accessibility, law for non-profits, HR in the sector and more.
This group meets virtually on the last Wednesday of each month from 3:30 – 5:00 pm.
Reimagining Governance Peer Community
Reimagining Governance is a monthly event where we discuss all things related to governance.
Governance is complex and goes beyond simply board performance. Good governance in non-profits advances missions and strengthens communities, and this space provides opportunities and pathways for organizations to design their governance based on their unique circumstances. This group is inspired by the work of ONN’s Reimagining Governance Lab.
This peer community provides board members, senior leaders, and those simply interested in governance to come together to ask questions, discuss governance issues, provide feedback, and learn from organizations advancing alternative solutions to governance. Previous topics include centering youth in governance, board recruitment, alternatives to Robert’s Rules, and equitable and accessible governance.
This group meets virtually on the fourth Monday of each month from 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Peer Community
This EDI Peer Community is a monthly group for senior leaders responsible for inclusion and diversity, and those from equity-deserving communities interested in advancing EDI practices.
This group comes together to learn, review, discuss, and share approaches and practices that support building organizations that are respectful, diverse, inclusive, and healthy.
The focus of this peer community is creating an environment for peer-to-peer learning, where participants come together every month to take learnings, discussions, and resources back to their organizations. This group takes on new members on a bi-annual basis. The next round of new members will be invited to join in early 2025. You can submit an expression of interest at any time by completing this form.
Capacity Investors Collaborative
The Capacity Investors Collaborative provides an opportunity for funders to connect with each other to explore collaborative opportunities specific to increasing non-profit capacity and supporting impactful organizations.
This collaborative meets quarterly in online gatherings (via Zoom) convened by Vantage Point, and provides an opportunity for funders to:
- Share experiences and best-practices in strategic capacity investment in non-profit governance, management, systems, and business models.
- Increase understanding of capacity challenges that grantees (charitable and non-profit organizations) encounter.
- Explore opportunities where partners can cooperate and/or coordinate their capacity investments to effectively build capacity of non-profit partner organizations – ultimately enhancing community health and well-being.
The Capacity Investors Collaborative is open to businesses, public and private foundations, organizations, and government departments that are committed to supporting the internal capacity of charitable and non-profit organizations in our province.
This collaborative is made possible thanks to the support of VCH Health Promotion Community Investments.
If you are interested in this peer community, please contact us at engagement@thevantagepoint.ca