 MVSI: Our Background
The challenges facing Manitoba’s voluntary sector suggest to community leaders that it’s time to plan for the future; to come up with a fresh approach and more assertive voices, and to define our own future and our role in sustaining healthy communities.
In 1999, the Volunteer Centre of Winnipeg and The Winnipeg Foundation began discussing ways of addressing the challenges. The focus was on answering the urgent questions needed for sustaining the voluntary sector.
Here are some of them.
What are the challenges to improved organization, funding, leadership and accountability?
What do the sub-sectors of our voluntary sector – in the city, the country and in the north – have in common (and how do they differ?)
Is the voluntary sector driven by the marketplace?
Is the voluntary sector driven by government?
Are the voluntary sector, government, business and organized labour working together with mutual respect, to build healthy communities?
Will the voluntary sector thrive, survive or decline? What factors will decide this? Is it acceptable for elements of the voluntary sector to decline or fail? What is the impact on community?
What can the voluntary sector contribute to overall public policy development?
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