Author: Stirling Coulter-Hayward

Stirling is a communications strategist with 10+ years leading community campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and digital strategy in the social impact and public interest spaces (Refugee 613, MCC Canada, Mint).

Friends with a Benefit Company

TL;DR: Gander Social is incorporated as a Benefit Company: a for-profit business with a legally binding public benefit. Our public benefit is to build trustworthy social infrastructure that protects user dignity, digital sovereignty, and democratic participation. As a Benefit Company, we’re legally obligated to consider users, communities, and the public interest alongside profit, and we […]

Building a Trustworthy Tech Stack.

TL;DR At Gander we’re doing something hard but necessary: building a platform (and a company) that treats sovereignty, privacy, and trust as non-negotiables. We sat down with our COO Jen Mitchell to get some insight into how we make decisions, how we manage tradeoffs, and why “progress over perfection” is our operating stance. Later this […]