Public Policy Institute

Building on the success of the United Way Public Policy Institute since 2011, we are offering this great training and capacity-building program again for 2023.

Between January and June 2023, we will bring together another group of 25 leaders from the BC non-profit sector whose organizations want to better understand and influence the public policy process. Enrollment is open to not-for-profit organizations from all regions of the province.

Ideal participants have a senior role within their organization or are well-positioned to help advance the public policy and advocacy work of their organization and well-supported in this role.

Selected organizations will delegate their representative to attend monthly sessions. Sessions will explore such topics as evidence-based research, policy options, engaging decision makers as well as implementation & evaluation.  

Our faculty lead is Carole James and she is joined by Dana Hayden, Ruth Wittenberg and Jim Rutkowski, Andrea Reimer and Ginger Gosnell-Myers as our Public Policy Institute faculty. They bring a wealth of real-life public policy experience to the program, complemented by an impressive and diverse array of panelists and guest speakers.