Media
Making room for failure in the social sector: Joanne Cave at TEDxEdmonton
Cultivating leadership and social change among young people Joanne is a feminist activist, non-profit leader, and undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. She founded the Edmonton-based young women's leadership organization Ophelia's Voice, and recently founded a Toronto-based network of young non-profit leaders to discuss and strategize on sector-level issues including funding reform, policy advocacy, and intergenerational succession planning. In addition, she currently serves on the governing boards of the Toronto Women's City Alliance and Frontline Partners with Youth Network. Joanne was named one of Alberta's 50 Most Influential People, a YWCA Edmonton Young Woman of Distinction, and Global TV Edmonton's Women of Vision in 2009. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Is The Non-Profit Sector Sustainable? Finding A Career in Social Justice - By Joanne Cave
How is the non-profit sector changing? What impacts does social entrepreneurship language have on the nature of the non-profit sector? Joanne will answer these questions and speak about the issues you may face when making a career in the non-profit sector. She will mostly speak of the structural issues, such as the difficulties in retaining young talented people, volatile funding situations, barriers to policy advocacy, etc. She will draw from her experience as a Canadian feminist organizer to look at how young Canadian feminists might be thinking about new ways to make change (i.e. through informal networks rather than structured organizations, ad-hoc projects, social media, etc.).
Implementing assisted-dying legislation in a social policy vacuum
Policy Options, May 24, 2016Online
With Canada’s assisted-dying dying legislation currently before Parliament, it becomes increasingly urgent for the Liberal government to make substantive commitments to policies and programs that will support this sea change in the health-care system.
The changing landscape for nonprofit policy advocacy
The Philanthropist, January 29, 2016Online
URL: http://thephilanthropist.ca/2016/02/the-changing-landscape-for-nonprofit-policy-advocacy/
How should nonprofit organizations (charities or otherwise) respond to changing political environments, leverage digital tools, maximize their impact on policy change, and assert themselves as thought leaders? In her article, Joanne Cave discusses the implications of recent elections and draws a roadmap for effective advocacy during times of political stability.
A shifting sector: emerging trends for Canada’s nonprofits in 2016
The Philanthropist, January 4, 2016Online
This article discusses key milestones for Canada’s non-profit sector in 2015, specifically highlighting landmark policy discussions, research projects, and sector-wide initiatives that have paved the path for 2016.
Climbing The Ladder: The Role Of Youth In Setting Sectoral Strategy
The Philanthropist, April 24, 2013Online
URL: http://thephilanthropist.ca/2013/04/climbing-the-ladder/
Show Roger Hart’s Ladder of Young People’s Participation (1997) to a room full of engaged young people and you will likely be greeted with vigorous head nods. “How many of you have experienced the bottom three rungs of the ladder—manipulation, decoration, or tokenism?” I tentatively asked a youth audience several years ago during a civic engagement workshop. Hands raised without hesitation, and stories began to emerge—young people participating in one-off policy consultations, to receive no further follow-up information; repeat invitations to be youth representatives on boards or at panel discussions, with limited context; being prominently featured in an organization’s annual report without their express consent.
NDP candidate reflects on party's collapse
Fort Saskatchewan Record, October 23, 2014Online
URL: http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/2015/10/23/ndp-candidate-reflects-on-partys-collapse
In her concession speech, NDP candidate Joanne Cave congratulated Conservative Garnett Genuis for his hard work and running a strong campaign ...
Meet Joanne Cave, Rhodes Scholar for 2013
U of T news, December 4, 2012Online
URL: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/meet-joanne-cave-rhodes-scholar-2013
Joanne Cave, a fourth-year Woodsworth College student and Alberta native, has been named a Prairies Rhodes Scholar for 2013 ...
Cave paves her way through
Sherwood Park News, August 17, 2015Online
URL: http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/2015/08/17/cave-paves-her-way-through
The official NDP candidate for the Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan riding in the Oct. 19 federal election is Joanne Cave ...
Can a rape joke ever be funny? Sexual assault survivors find out
The Guardian, June 10, 2016Online
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/comedy-tour-rape-is-real-everywhere-canada
As she waited for the Toronto show to begin, Joanne Cave wasn’t sure exactly what to expect ...
"Maybe Her Brain Was Falling Apart" - Young Women, Care and New Iterations of Work-Life Balance
Published by The Rhodes Project
May 11, 2015
My mother started showing signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s about four years ago, when I was 19 years old, several years before I arrived in Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship ...
URL: http://rhodesproject.com/blog-archive/joanne-cave-young-women-care-work-life-balance
Biography
Joanne Cave is a social policy researcher, community organizer and progressive political campaign strategist from Edmonton, Alberta. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Comparative Social Policy and Masters in Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. In 2015 she campaigned as the federal NDP candidate in Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, launching the party's largest federal campaign in the riding to date in budget, scale and volunteer resources. Cave previously worked for the Caledon Institute of Social Policy and Strategic Policy Initiatives for the Government of Alberta Ministry of Human Services. She has worked on social policy projects related to women's equality, poverty reduction, youth unemployment, children's rights, access to childcare, early childhood development, pension reform and long-term care.
Cave helped several Canadian women's organizations navigate an increasingly precarious funding climate; after which she co-founded Connect The Sector, a Toronto-based network of young non-profit professionals advocating on issues of organizational sustainability, precarious employment, decent work, funding reform and the advocacy chill among registered charities. She has since conducted academic research on social service privatization, austerity, and the emergence of social impact bonds in the non-profit sector. Cave was recognized as a 2009 Loran Scholar and 2013 Rhodes Scholar. In 2012, she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case for her longstanding commitment to girls and women's equality. She is currently a Juris Doctor Candidate at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Peter F. Bronfman Award | Personal
Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
Garfield Weston Loran Award | Personal
The Loran Scholars Foundation
George and Teresa Smith Award | Professional
Best Comparative Policy Thesis, University of Oxford.
Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award | Personal
University of Toronto Alumni Association
Canadian Rhodes Scholarship | Personal
The Rhodes Trust