Ginsler & Associates Inc. brings over 25 years' experience in community development, human services planning, and community capacity building to bear on today's most challenging community issues. Working with community organizations, donors, and governments in such areas as homelessness, hunger, community research, and multi-sector co-ordination and collaboration, we help bring out the best in community service agencies, local businesses, and government programs.

We have a well-deserved reputation for excellence in the field. Based on our clients' needs we assemble a team of experienced professionals from a variety of disciplines to bring their skills and expertise to your organization's or community's particular challenges.

Whether it is facilitating collaborative community processes, conducting needs assessments and capacity inventories, designing or re-designing community service delivery systems, assisting organizations to maximize their effectiveness, identifying needed resources, or working with funders and donors to ensure they realize the expected results from their investment in community agencies, Ginsler & Associates Inc. can help you achieve the results you are looking for.

	Ginsler & Associates Inc. helps you to: Structure your organization for maximum results; Identify and access the resources you need to accomplish your mission; Improve the public policies that impact on your clients and community; Develop solutions to community and organizational challenges; Train board, volunteers, and staff to increase the success of your organization; and Identify, evaluate, and replicate success. To contact us, click here.

About Ernie Ginsler

Ernie Ginsler has spent his entire working life involved in the voluntary sector – as a volunteer, employee, board member, and now as a consultant. Over the last thirty years Ernie has worked in the area of community and organizational development and social planning in Halifax, Toronto, and Kitchener in every facet imaginable. He has worked in three Social Planning Councils and was the Executive Director in Kitchener-Waterloo for seventeen years. He chaired the Board of the Ontario Social Development Council and the Ontario Committee of Social Planning Councils, and has taught Organizational Management at York University, Social Policy and Planning at the University of Waterloo School of Urban and Regional Planning, and Canadian Social Welfare at Wilfrid Laurier University. He currently holds Adjunct Faculty status at the University of Waterloo.

In the area of organizational management, Ernie taught the course on Strategic and Operational Planning for the National Certificate Program in Voluntary Sector Management, he is the author of a number of publications on non-profit management including manuals on strategic planning, board orientation, hiring and evaluating executive directors, merging non-profits, and others, which are distributed across Canada and the United States. Ernie is currently a contributor to the E-Newsletter, Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review. On behalf of the national Voluntary Sector Initiative, Ernie recently created an on-line toolbox of resources to assist voluntary organizations to become more active in the government policy development process.

Before creating the consulting firm Ginsler and Associates Inc. in 1997, Ernie was Vice-President Allocations and Community Services for the United Way of Greater Toronto, where he was responsible for the allocation of an annual fund of $34 million.