ZN BLOG
Why Change Management Matters
Completed a Plan - What's Next?
Achieve Long-term Vision: Planning for 2024
Truth, Reconciliation, and Resilience
A Clear Path for Your Community's Success
Strategic Plans and Departmental Plans
Owning a Plan = Implementing it
Comprehensive Community Plans vs Strategic Plans
Managing Urgency: Prioritizing When Everything Feels Important
Why Do We Need a Prioritization Framework?
Achieving Operational Excellence: A 5-Stepped Approach
Indigenous Resource Management & Natural Asset Management – Two-eyed Seeing for Climate Resilience
The Incremental Path to Indigenous Self-Governance
Breaking Free from the Indian Act: A Path to Self-Governance
Resource Scarcity in Indigenous Communities
Why Community Engagement Needs to be at the Heart of any Planning Process
3 Steps to Building Plans That Work
Turning Strategy into Action: A Practical Approach
Seeking Community Endorsement
Navigating Crisis and Building Resilience
Navigating Through the BC Wildfire Crisis
Community Development Continuity
Simplifying Community Planning
Embracing Indigenous History
Delegation as a Leadership Skill
Annual Planning: Key Steps for Implementation
The Rapid Housing Initiative
In Conversation: What Does Reconciliation Really Mean to Canadian Businesses?
LyttonStrong One Year Later: a dedication to our friends and colleagues in Lytton
We would love to hear from you
Email Efficacy: Having a Clutter-Free Inbox
Path to Effective Plan Implementation
Empowering Low-resource Communities
Breathing Life into Community Plans
Identifying and Overcoming Time Thieves in Your Daily Routine
Mastering Effective Communication
Financial Literacy & Community Resilience
Is Your Community Ready to Put Your Language Revitalization Ideas in Motion?
Five Ways to Experience Indigenous History and Culture through the Arts
Making History: 4 Court Cases You Need to Know About
Leading Climate Action: the power of youth leadership
SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL: Nzen’man’ - A Nest to Call Your Own
Greener Pastures- a guide to purchasing and maintaining an eco-friendly home
Climate Resilience - Finding a Collective Path Forward
Embedding Climate Action in Our Thoughts and Actions: An ZN Perspective
COP26, Indigenous Voices - The Path Forward
Six Foundations of Building Community Resilience, Six Extraordinary Stories
The Aftermath of the Lytton Wildfire - By Kathryn Brooks
5 Ways to Support Your Local Indigenous Businesses this Holiday Season
6 Things You Must Know about Employee Engagement in the Pandemic Era
Guest Blog - The Lytton Wildfire: DAY 2
Six Things You Should Know about Annual (or bi-annual) Planning
Planning is critical for any project and organization. But how do you plan effectively for an organization? This guide will take you through the steps on how to conduct strategic annual or bi-annual planning.
Guest Blog- The Day My Home Burned Down
Kathryn Brooks, a Lytton resident guest writes this week. This is part 1 of a series told from a Lytton evacuee’s perspective. She takes us into her world and paints a picture of June 30th, and the aftermath.
Quarterly Review Done Right - 8 Things You Should Know
It’s the end of Q2. You are getting ready to do a quarterly review with your team. This listicle helps you check off the key boxes in your prep. You will want to read this before your next quarterly review.
Is the New Fiscal Relationship Grant Right for You?
This is an update to our previous blog on the 10-year grant initiative from 2020. In this update, you will learn about the New Fiscal Relationship grant and how to apply.
Will the Fraser River Salmon Population Jump Back?
Although salmon are a resilient species but how much closer to the brink can we push them before there is no coming back? While climate change is a global issue, it depends on us individually how we play our part.
Making it Count - What National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Means to Us
What are the origins of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation? How do we support the cause and Indigenous peoples. On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, what are we committed to doing in contribution to the cause?
COVID-19 Relief Funding for First Nations and First Nation Businesses
The Government of Canada through Indigenous Services Canada has enabled the Covid-19 relief funding curated for First Nations and First Nation businesses. This article provides an overview of the eligibility criteria, application process, funding levels, and additional program details.
6 Burning Questions You Have about Wildfires
We take a look at some commonly asked questions about the relationship between climate change and wildfires.
6 Steps to a Healthy Financial Governance System
A regular check-up is important for a person’s health. The same principle applies to healthy communities. Strong financial governance is key to prosperity, self-sufficiency and community resilience in today’s economic world.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Financial Reporting
July is the first month of Q3 and the month when financial reporting is being finalized for many Indigenous communities and organizations. We thought we’d take the opportunity to answer some of the most common questions we get from clients and others on this topic.
Budgeting Reframed: the Simple Way of Doing Budgets
The “budgeting mental block” is real…
Follow these steps to get it done!
The Use of Resilience Hubs in an Emergency
We explore the “resilience hubs” in this article.
Celebrating Community Success
In celebration of National Indigenous History month, we’d like to take a look at 5 communities that have excelled in the areas of energy, food security, housing, economic development and financial governance as these are the foundation of who we are as people in today’s society.
Quest for Resilience
A powerful interview with Chief Patrick Michell of Kanaka Bar Band where he candidly shares his leadership vision, recent making of the CRP, what drives him and more.
The Time to Act is Now
On climate change, COVID-19, economic future and what it all means for our actions now and in the future.
What’s Technology Got to Do with it?
Guest Blog - By Aaron Coelho, MSc, PAg
Dealing with the Climate Crisis
An opinion piece looking at the reality of the climate crisis.
Framing Sustainable Cities and Communities
The economic role of cities has gained more meaning in the modern era of economic globalisation. Globalisation is affecting not only the large metropolitans but also many smaller cities, towns and even villages. Cities are creating wealth and are offering greater life opportunities to its citizens. The question becomes, is it sustainable?
Step Towards the Future with Electric Vehicles
In this infographic we explore all the reasons why you will want to invest in an electric vehicle.
Circular Economy at a Glance
We often think that sustainability and economic growth can’t go hand in hand, however that just might not be the case.
Achieving Self-sufficiency
An article discussing the concept and practice of self-sufficiency, in the context of Indigenous communities in Canada.
The 10-year Grant
It takes a considerable amount of time and work to gain an understanding of the available services, implementation processes, and rights and responsibilities of nations upon receipt of government funding. To make ease to all such steps and processes, a 10-year grant is introduced by the Federal Government. Here is a closer look.
Community Excellence - not instant coffee!
What is meant by community excellence? How can it be achieved? More importantly, how can it be sustained? In this blog, we will explore the answers to these questions, and many more, by analyzing efforts of an Indigenous community located only three hours away from Vancouver in the beautiful Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia (BC).
B.C.’S Forestry Sector: Can the Challenges Be Overcome?
A closer look at the forest sector in BC and its relationship with the rest of the economy, and sustainability priorities.