{"id":70,"date":"2022-01-09T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:30","slug":"wanda-brascoupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/wanda-brascoupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Brascoup\u00e9, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Wanda Brascoup\u00e9, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Wanda Brascoupe, a Carleton University Philanthropy student.\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Brascoupe_Wanda_800x800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanda is Bear Clan, Kanien\u2019keha, Skar\u00f9 r\u0119\u2019 and Anishinabeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past 20 years, her Western philanthropic journey grew from pre-school volunteering, to donor, to implementing her firm\u2019s corporate social responsibility model. In founding a high-tech firm, she realized she could practice her Longhouse values in an urban setting and work for the collective good through philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following this, she formalized her career by becoming the Executive Director of The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. She continued volunteering as a board member with national foundations, including Reconciliation Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past three years, her approach to advising Indigenous and non-Indigenous charities and foundations has shifting the narrative from deficit to the truth of abundance and forming trust models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, as the pandemic unfolded, she knew Indigenous communities would face barriers by philanthropy. A conversation led to creating the first Indigenous-led fund to support Indigenous-led initiatives. Using a trust model, they raised more than $14 million in unencumbered funds with 29 partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What draws her to MPNL program is to further grow in this field and understand Western philanthropy and to be a part of the broader conversation on Indigenous Peoples and philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanda is a proud mother of three daughters, one recent graduate and two currently studying at Cornell University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanda is Bear Clan, Kanien\u2019keha, Skar\u00f9 r\u0119\u2019 and Anishinabeg. In the past 20 years, her Western philanthropic journey grew from pre-school volunteering, to donor, to implementing her firm\u2019s corporate social responsibility model. In founding a high-tech firm, she realized she could practice her Longhouse values in an urban setting and work for the collective good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,24,20,21,22,16,17,23,18,28],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-carleton-university","tag-executive-style","tag-faculty-of-public-affairs","tag-fpa","tag-nonprofit-and-philanthropic-sector","tag-ottawa-ontario-canada","tag-philanthropy","tag-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-wanda-brascoupe"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}