Reclaim 10,000 Hours
This project helps community organizations use smarter tools to reclaim time for the people they serve.
PARALLEL PROJECT
The 10,000 Hours Saved Project
The Good Life Lab is exploring a new project with a simple ambition: help community organizations across Nova Scotia reclaim 10,000 hours of staff time and invest those hours back into people.
As part of the project, we're inviting community organizations and nonprofits to take part in a complimentary time-saving review. We’ll look at where repetitive work, inefficient processes or everyday administration may be eating up time, then identify practical ways to simplify that work through smarter tools, creative problem-solving and automation.
The goal is simple. Help organizations save time so they can spend more of it supporting people and their communities.
1. Tell us where your team's time disappears
We start with a short conversation about the tasks, processes, and recurring work that take up too much of your team’s time.
2. We look for better ways
We explore practical ways to simplify that work, from small process improvements and better digital tools to AI-assisted tasks and simple automations.
3. You receive a short assessment
We send you a concise review highlighting the strongest opportunities, what may be worth trying, and where the greatest time savings could be found.
There's no obligation to implement anything. The idea is simply to give your organization a useful outside perspective and a few realistic ways to get some of that time back.
How It Works
Why 10,000 Hours?
Because saving time only matters if something better happens with it.
The larger idea behind the project is to help organizations reinvest those reclaimed hours in stronger relationships, more creative community experiences, and more time spent directly supporting people.
Participating organizations may also be featured as case studies as we share useful ideas with the wider community sector and track progress toward 10,000 hours saved across the province.
Interested in taking part? Contact us to request a complimentary review or to learn more about the project.
LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Bring a little more possibility into the room.
Interested in hosting a workshop, collaborating on research, or finding time back for your team? Tell us what you have in mind.
We bring more curiosity, creativity, and connection into everyday life through imaginative digital literacy workshops and public research.
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Digital Literacy & Community Research