By Edmund Yirenkyi Attention to climate change risks and adaptation has intensified in recent times (Tchoukaleyska et al., 2021). Climate change is happening, as reflected by several weather- and climate-related events, such as the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and forest fires and the high frequency of droughts causing loss of agriculture productivity in […]
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Project Summary By: Amanda Affram, PhD student Sir Wilfred Grenfell first arrived on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1892 as part of the Royal National Mission to the Deep-Sea Fishermen. He undertook philanthropic activities in areas including education, health, social development, agriculture, among others. This research project aims to focus on the philanthropic
Description of Proposed Research By: Amanda Asiamah, PhD Student, Transdisciplinary Sustainability, Grenfell Campus Newfoundland and Labrador has a greater number of rural (594) charities than urban (559) as of 2020 (Le, et al., n.d.). Research shows that rural philanthropy contributes to building local capacity by leveraging on existing assets and increasing the extent and effectiveness
By: Edmund Yirenkyi Amanda Asiamah, Abdul-Latif Alhassan, and I recently participated and presented at the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research’s (ANSER) 16th annual conference which was part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference. Amanda is an incoming student to the TRSU PhD program, Abdul-Latif has been working as a
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