What We Do

We work collaboratively across all sectors to centre wellbeing as a measure of success and progress that guides us all.

 

We do this by:

  • Driving provincial and national initiatives as part of a global movement aimed at measuring and improving quality of life for all.

  • Equipping governments, organizations, and individuals with insights and tools they can use to address complex challenges, rise to opportunities, invest in what matters most, and affect change in their own backyards.

  • Nurturing belief in a better world that everyone can feel part of and committed to.

 

What we do is brought to life through three primary focus areas:

Nova Scotia
Quality of Life Initiative

 
 

The Nova Scotia Quality of Life Initiative is leading the wellbeing movement in Canada.

We work with community, government, business, and academic sectors to:

  • Advance a wellbeing framework for measuring and improving the lives of Nova Scotia residents.

  • Undertake the NS Quality of Life Survey every 5 years (next up: 2025)

  • Share the survey results widely and equip people to use them

Sustainable Development
Goals Program

 
 

Our Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) project drives opportunities to collaborate on action for sustainable, equitable, and inclusive futures.

To get involved, you can:

Projects to strengthen
social connections

 
The graphic that represents our social connections projects lane of work. It is a rectangular speech bubble made up of four corner segments. Each corner has a dot in it. Each corner is a different colour (green, blue, pink-red, and yellow).
 

Relationships, or social connections, and our sense of belonging are essential to our wellbeing.

We create opportunities for people to strengthen them.

  • Do a ___ thing, a collection of ideas to (re)connect at school, work, and home.

  • From Me to You, a provincewide note-writing initiative.

  • Share Thanksgiving (2014-2018), where Nova Scotia residents hosted newcomers to the province for a meal.

 

We just turned 10. Read about what we’ve done in A Decade of Milestones.