NGOs

"It was a bad year,” David Donnelly, Earth Day Canada’s Hometown Hero for 2008, tells me. We’re sitting at a long table beside the open-concept kitchen in the common room at 215 Spadina Avenue in downtown Toronto. It’s the official hangout for socially conscious non-profit groups in Canada’s largest city. Though he’s a lawyer, Donnelly is clearly at home in this space. He introduces me to the receptionist and nods to colleagues as they pass by.