Joel has been working for charities and not-for-profits since 1990, including senior organizational experience with Farm & Food Care Ontario and Food Banks Canada. Additionally, Joel has 21 years of volunteer board director experience, including the Optimist Club of Puslinch (President), and as a Director for the Guelph Community Foundation. Joel founded the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada Foundation in 2012, and the Food Support Foundation Canada in 2022. Currently, Joel is work at Headwaters Health Care Foundation serving Dufferin and Caledon in their quest to secure their first MRI unit at their regional hospital. When not working, Joel enjoys time with his wife and three kids, and especially time up north at their off-grid “yurt” on a no-motor lake near Parry Sound.
In 2000, my wife and I went on a monitoring trip to Belize with a group of volunteers and were impressed with the S.H.A.R.E. philosophy.
I started on the project committee and love that we fund projects that provide clean water.
I was always drawn to S.H.A.R.E. because of our ‘hand up' and not a 'hand-out’ principle.
Responding to opportunities to provide services to others has led me to volunteer since my 20’s.
Jim joins S.H.A.R.E. as a director in October 2022. Jim grew up on a farm in Stouffville Ontario.