{"id":11815,"date":"2024-01-22T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11815"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:42","slug":"barbara-mcinnes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/barbara-mcinnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara McInnes"},"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                        Barbara McInnes\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Barbara-McInnes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11816\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara McInnes was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 10, &#8220;in recognition of her service to the community as a volunteer and local organizer and for her development of the Community Foundation of Ottawa.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. McInnes joined the foundation at its 1987 inception, overseeing its growth to more than $100 million in assets and creating an international reputation for excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been on the Board of Governors at Carleton University, president of the Ottawa Estate Planning Council and the Ottawa School of Art, and a board member of the United Way and numerous other associations. She currently serves as a director of the Shorefast Foundation, HUB Ottawa, the Telus Ottawa Community Board and Match International Women\u2019s Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara won the 2014 Volunteer Ottawa Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012 Key to the City, 2008 Order of Canada, 2004 Community Service Award &#8211; Academy of Medicine Ottawa and the 2001 Volunteer of the Year &#8211; Volunteer Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9wZSdeloXXI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Barbara McInnes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara McInnes was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 10, &#8220;in recognition of her service to the community as a volunteer and local organizer and for her development of the Community Foundation of Ottawa.&#8221; Ms. McInnes joined the foundation at its 1987 inception, overseeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11815\/revisions\/13602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}