Holland College president Alexander MacDonald appointed to board of Toronto-based social innovation platform
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Holland School president Alexander MacDonald will be a part of the advisory board of Magnet, a social innovation hub primarily based on the Toronto Metropolitan College (TMU).
Magnet companions with schooling, authorities, expertise and group service organizations to attach employers with these searching for jobs and provides them coaching.
The corporate additionally provides companies and applications for skilled improvement.
The board’s first order is to information TMU and Magnet in establishing its governance framework and making certain a strategic progress agenda.
Magnet’s initiatives help a spread of outcomes in keeping with its mission, together with employer schooling, early expertise recruitment, numerous hiring, enterprise progress and thought management.
The corporate’s purpose is to advance probabilities for individuals of all backgrounds and put together employers for a altering labour market.
Magnet’s platform works to help companies join with expertise and stakeholders like service suppliers, trade associations, policymakers and researchers.
The platform additionally provides the chance to work collectively to ship workforce improvement options.
MacDonald mentioned he’s trying ahead to contributing to the initiative.
“Magnet’s initiatives are aligned with a number of actions we have now undertaken at Holland School. I sit up for taking part within the improvement of this helpful platform as a part of the advisory board,” he mentioned.
