ABOUT US
Time: 2 min 18 s
Sunny Lam gives a video summary about why Sunny Lam and Associates Consulting was formed. Get help and advice with productivity management, organization, resumes, interviews, business planning and grant writing. You can also get help with research, communications, marketing and social media. Manage life, planning and interviews like a demon…
SUNNY LAM
Sunny Lam is a consultant with 8 years of research and 4 years of project management experience in the not for profit side who assists individuals and organizations in the environment or food sector to succeed, thrive and flourish.
Sunny has co-developed a local food system initiative with 10 core organizers and over 100 volunteers thanks to a $90,000 grant from the Agricultural Management Institute (AMI). It included executing a 4 part speaker series, workshops and a Local Food Summit with over 1000 people in attendance and 6 keynote speakers.
Sunny organized monthly university farmers’ markets over 2 years that provided special food retail services to 20,000 people. Sunny has experience managing a community garden with over 70 supporters in a low income neighbourhood and working on 3 organic farms including Growing Power Inc. He is also the board member at large and web manager for Canadian Organic Growers Toronto.
LinkedIn http://bit.ly/4Yqqj
Twitter http://bit.ly/wJoQy (@sunnylam)
Facebook http://bit.ly/pqoRi
ROXINE PLUMMER
A native of Mississauga, Ontario, Roxine is a graduate of McMaster
University where she studied Geography with a specialization in
Geographic Information Systems to pursue a career in urban planning.
Her plans immediately changed in her senior year after having observed
the social stratification of rich and poor classes on her field trip
to Los Angeles. Alarmed at neighbourhoods riddled with crime and
poverty, she adopted a new worldview as her passion and love for
humanity grew.
She now aspires to be a leader in public service where she can advance
public interest and bring about the possibilities of transformation to
some of the world’s most brutal realities. She believes that no other
career can be more rewarding than serving the community and the world.
“The public service chose me,” she states. “Almost every job that I’ve
ever had has been in the helping profession, and I realize now that
during those times, I was truly happy.”
Apart from interning with Sunny Lam and Associates, Roxine is an
active member of Amnesty International Canada and Comfortably Speaking
Toastmasters Club. Roxine enjoys travelling, graphic design, watching
movies, strumming her guitar, discovering new music, and writing
poetry in her free time.
Also check out the Portfolio tab above
CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION
Sunny Lam and Associates Consulting
Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 416 845 0818
Email: snnlam@gmail.com
Get updates through the Mailing List (http://bit.ly/zJBlX)
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The ones linking volunteer recruitment, retention and growth look good to post. Will try to do as soon as possible.
another great idea is tabletop fountains. Some of them have lights so they act not only as a soothing instrument, but also sets the mood. Relaxes any home office.
Thanks for putting this up. And yes, Canada does have a Federal Law with a minimum of two weeks paid vacation. Most provinces raise that to three weeks after five years. Saskatchewan actually starts at three weeks. So you’re definitely ahead of the US on this–as with most things.
best,
John de Graaf
Here’s the Live Green Toronto’s Web site release:
http://www.toronto.ca/livegreen/inspired_grantsrecipients.html
If you’d like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen’s GTD:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
Dan,
Thanks for suggesting the tool. I’m pretty knowledgeable about GTD as it is. Personally I’m an Omnifocus – it’s a fantastic application for really switching between the projects and the contexts. Still working on that blog post. I took a look at GTD agenda – seems to be a purely online tool.
I wonder if there are any other online GTD focused tools. The few things I’ve seen that can do that are TiddlyWiki and a whole bunch of tools here http://gtd.jeffsandquist.com/Default.aspx?Page=GTDTools&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#_jmp0_
I’d love to hear more about GTD Agenda Dan!
Fair winds,
Sunny Lam
Management Consultant || Sunny Lam & Associates (MES)
t: 416 845 0818 || snnlam@gmail.com
http://www.sunnylam.ca || http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunnylam || http://twitter.com/sunnylam
Productivity, Proposal, Business Plan, Resume and Interview Coaching || “Collect Focus Finish Succeed!”
Member of Green Enterprise Toronto, FoodCycles, TCGN, COG Toronto
Smart!!
Would have been perfect for my parisian apartment!
About.com reported that employers and recruiters use these 3 job sites most to find quality candidates.
http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to jobs)
If you are looking for a new job, good luck to you.
Thanks for the post. “What’s a reasonable salary [for Mr. Pallotta]?” You see, the point is, that’s really up to Mr. Pallotta. If the salary you think is reasonable is one that I am unwilling to accept, I don’t have to accept the work, or produce the $305 million net dollars we raised. And the real point is, that this happens all of the time. The average Stanford Business School grad, ten years out of B-school earns $400,000 annually in the for-profit sector, selling beer and golf balls and cosmetics, instead of helping the poor. Why? because of society’s outrage when someone makes $400,000 in charity. And guess who pays the price? The poor, who may have been delivered from their plight by the talents these people could bring to bear on the problem.
So the critical question, my friends, is not, “What’s a reasonable salary?” The critical question is, “What salaries will it take to attract the people who can most quickly eradicate the social problems that cause suffering in this world?” Any question with a different objective forfeits the real moral high ground.
Curious to me that people will write blogs about this issue, and get incensed about it (not you) but never say a word about the fact that David Beckham makes $50 million a year for kicking a soccer ball around.
Kind regards,
Dan Pallotta
“…David Beckham makes $50 million a year for kicking a soccer ball around.” + the hockey players and other people who serve only as modern day gladiators
Quite true Dan. And I’m not incensed because you’re right. We’re not investing in the people who do enough good. While most people are more than happy to invest in diverting entertainment.
I think it has a lot to do with the disconnections between people in society. We value entertainment by people more than people, just as it seems we value attempts to do selfless good more than the people who make those attempts.
Gods, Dan, I know what you’re feeling. People in the social economy/non profit field are incensed because they realize that they’re busting their asses and getting nothing for it.
If anything, every person in the field (hell everyone really) should be reading your book and saying, “Where are we spending our money? Why aren’t we investing in good people – giving them the value of what they’re really worth (in their own eyes)?”
Much to think about.
Thanks for the refreshing comment shadowphenyx. Now to get the rest of the world to realize the same.
Kind regards,
Dan Pallotta
i like your post very much thank you, very interesting
you have a point. great job.You can share your good deeds to A Global Tribe. Check it out if you have time, it is a great site.
I would prefer to mail my resume and information,
could that be possible?
Yes mailing it would be possible.
2 of 3 – one more, one more – FoodCycles (http://foodcycles.wordpress.com/) is looking for some interns with a keen desire to spear head the urban agriculture movement in Toronto. Driven fundraising, communications (especially blogs and Facebook), writers and community outreach volunteers are definitely welcome (especially if they’re looking to help make history and gain some invaluable experience).
Nowadays I use Tweetdeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/) which utilizes Adobe Air (http://www.adobe.com/products/air/). It’s facing some serious competition from Seesmic Desktop as the Twitter computer client of choice (http://desktop.seesmic.com/). I’m tempted to see what Seesmic is all about.
Oh and I’m still working on inputting all the links from Echo of a Candle Flame (http://sunnylam.wordpress.com/) into the new site. If you have any links that should be on here drop me a line!
Trust me, if you have over 1000 feeds like me, Google Reader is your best bet.
Was just at the conference – here are some of the Tweets I managed to put in here at Twitter Search:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ontestkitchen
Was using the #ontestkitchen tag.
Working away on #video summary of #ontestkitchen 1st day, 2 panels – #low #income and #local #sustainable food supply – woohoo – comin’ soon
Too bad I didn’t give enough time to Chris Lowry. So here’s an interesting fact from him: when Green Enterprise Toronto (http://greenenterprise.net/) did their feasibility study they found that 1 in 4 of entrepreneurs were in the food field.
Oh and feel free to leave comments on how I can improve the stories and the delivery to make things more lively for everyone involved!
Thanks, Sunny, for referencing my two blogs on the shrinking resume and Maya Angelou. She has the wonderful capacity to capture the essence of a thought as well as anybody I’ve read. Those are only a few of her gems.
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