By Lincoln DePradine
After 18 months with no fulltime govt director, Tropicana Neighborhood Providers (TCS) is about to get one.
TCS introduced Tuesday that, as of Might 5, Daniel Anckle—a George Brown School professor—can be Tropicana’s new govt director.
“Daniel brings a wealth of information, management, and a deep dedication to fairness, variety, and social justice,” Tropicana stated in a information launch.
It added that Anckle, who “served as the manager director of assorted organizations, together with Cecil Neighborhood Centre, Central Neighbourhood Home and the Jamaican Canadian Affiliation”, has had a “distinguished profession’’ and “a profound influence on youngsters, youth, and their households’’.
Anckle replaces lawyer Raymund Guiste, who was CEO and govt director of TCS. Guiste joined the group in 2019 and was with Tropicana till November 2023.
TCS, a non-profit neighborhood group, was established in 1980 by a bunch of Caribbean nationals within the Higher Toronto Space.
In keeping with the group, its mission is “to serve deprived youth and their households, notably these from the Caribbean’’.
The brand new govt director was chosen by a search committee that was arrange by Tropicana.
Anckle is “an distinctive candidate’’, stated TCS president and chair of the board of administrators, Anthony Gray.
“The board of administrators is thrilled to welcome Daniel Anckle as our new govt director,” stated Gray. “His ardour for neighborhood service, mixed together with his intensive management expertise, makes him the perfect particular person to information Tropicana ahead within the subsequent chapter of its progress.’’
Anckle, who studied on the York College’s Schulich Faculty of Enterprise and likewise is a graduate of Queen’s Faculty of Enterprise governance program, is a part-time professor at George Brown.
He’s an ex-council member of the Ontario School of Academics and was previously employed with Toronto Neighborhood Housing, Dovercourt Boys & Ladies Membership and Scouts Canada.
TCS, in hiring Anckle, stated “his dedication to community-building and client-centred providers aligns completely with Tropicana’s mission to help youth and households’’.
For his half, Anckle says he’s “really honoured’’ to be employed as Tropicana’s new govt director.
“This group has an excellent legacy of empowering youth and households, and I’m excited to work alongside our devoted workers, board members, and neighborhood companions to proceed that necessary work. Collectively, we’ll deal with constructing a extra inclusive, supportive, and resilient neighborhood the place each particular person has the chance to thrive,’’ stated Anckle.
In his social media profile, Anckle describes himself as a “outcomes pushed, strategic chief who has managed multi-million greenback budgets, developed programming, written insurance policies and shaped strategic partnerships which have knowledgeable and enhanced organizational effectiveness in Canada and the UK. I possess complete information of strategic planning, fundraising and monetary administration, human assets and volunteer administration’’.
Within the phrases of Anckle, he greatest thrives “in an surroundings the place variety, fairness and anti-oppression are elementary values. I’ve been credited with the event, implementation and analysis of quite a few neighborhood applications, consultations, advisory committees and organizational capability constructing initiatives’’.
LJI reporter
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