Three women receive Muttart Fellowships for Year 2002.

• Author: Mitchell, Teresa

Three women, all senior executives in the charitable sector, have received year 2002 Muttart Fellowships. The Muttart Foundation of Edmonton created the fellowship in 1996 to enable social-services leaders to undertake a special project of use to the nonprofit charitable sector and to rejuvenate themselves for further work.

Karen Bruce, Anne Campbell, and Hadassah Ksienski are this year's recipients.

Karen Bruce is executive director of the Alberta Safety Council. She joined the Edmonton Safety Council as executive director in 1986 and recently helped guide her organization through a merger with the Alberta Safety Council. She will undertake research into managing major organizational change within a charitable agency. She will research the management of major organizational change within a charitable agency. Bruce, a resident of Sherwood Park, expects to receive her Master of Business Administration degree from Athabasca University in June.

Anne Campbell, a St. John's native, became executive director of Saskatoon's YWCA in 1995. She recently led a community-wide movement to create a new Community Services Village that houses a number of social-service agencies in Saskatoon. She will develop a workbook to help charities with strategic planning. Campbell holds degrees in arts and education from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a master's degree in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

"Strategic planning is one of the most critical functions that the board of any charity must undertake. It is a particularly challenging exercise in the current...