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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Youth Peer and Parents PEACE Program Video
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
EPIC BEST RUN NON-PROFIT IN CANADA!
On November 5th in Toronto, Ontario–at the provincial Lieutenant Governor’s residence–EPIC took home the $20,000 William H. Donner Award for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services, the overall award for the highest-performing agency. The organization also won the award for excellence in the delivery of services for children along with a $5,000 prize. The [...]
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
EPIC Wins National Award for Excellence
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Barry Receives Local Volunteerism Award
EPIC is happy to announce that Barry Waldman is the recipient of the third annual Harvey Webber Memorial Award. The award was presented at the United Way of Cape Breton Annual General Meeting, held at Membertou on April 15, 2008. The honour is awarded to individuals who 1) have a history of community volunteer experience [...]
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Dan Christmas receives national recognition
Dan Christmas, Chairman and Director of Planning for the EPIC Board of Directors and Senior Adviser to the Chief and Council of Membertou First Nations, is the winner of the National Excellence in Aboriginal Leadership Award for contributions at a regional level. This is one of two awards given by the National Aboriginal Financial Officers [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Peer tutoring in Eskasoni
In the fall of 2007, EPIC began a partnership with the Eskasoni First Nations School District to bring Youth Peer-style math tutoring to the students of Eskasoni. With funding from the Eskasoni School Board, teacher and former Vice-Principal of Eskasoni High School, Newell Johnson—who has been tutoring students after school on a volunteer basis for [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Parents PEACE hosts Mother-Daughter Night
On November 6, Blair Hill, Facilitator for EPIC’s Parents PEACE Program, brought together women—mainly mothers and their teenage daughters—to participate a workshop on Teen Sexuality. Cathy Penney from the Cape Breton Centre for Sexual Health was the evening’s presenter. Twelve adults and fifteen teens attended the candid talk and lively discussion that followed. A similar [...]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
EPIC wins
The news is just in— EPIC has won the Donner Foundation Award for Excellence in Delivery of Social Services in the Child Care Category division. Barry Waldman was in Toronto today to receive this recognition for EPIC’s Youth Peer and Parents PEACE Programs. The award comes with a $5,000 cash prize. More soon on this [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Recent Press
On August 13, 2007, The Cape Breton Post published an article about EPIC, Barry and the Donner Foundation award nomination. Below is the photo and text of the article by Chris Shannon, CB Post reporter: Society founded by North Sydney man is a finalist for a national award North Sydney — A non-profit society that [...]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
EPIC named as finalist for national award
We are very proud to announce that EPIC has been recognized as a finalist for the 10th annual Donner Canadian Foundation Awards for Excellence in the Delivery of Social Services! Youth Peer and the Parents PEACE programs are short-listed along with two other programs for a $5,000 Donner Canadian Foundation Award for Excellence in the [...]
