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Bright Thinking from the Vibrant Communities Canada Network
Phase II Learning: High-impact, high-leverage poverty reduction work
The Phase II Learning Report captures contributions and outcomes of local Cities Reducing Poverty (CRP) initiatives across three areas: program delivery, policy change, and systems change. Read about high-impact, high-leverage examples of where CRP members have delivered successful programs and made progress toward policy and systems change.
Deep Dive: A Case Study on Halton's Poverty Roundtable
Halton Region is known as an affluent community and desirable place to live. However, poverty in the area is significant, growing and largely hidden. It was not until 2011 that the community coalesced around a coherent strategy led by the Halton Poverty Roundtable (HPRT) to combat systemic poverty, and while challenges remain, the community moves forward today with a deepening commitment and greater degree of collaboration.
Asset-Based Community Development: For Healthy Neighbourhoods Kitchener, Ontario | April 17-19, 2018
Learn the fundaments of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) from two of the world’s top trainers in ABCD – John McKnight and Cormac Russell – together for the first time in Canada. Advance your skills in assessing the resources, gifts, and experiences available in a community; organizing the community around issues that move residents into action; and determining and taking appropriate action. The focus of the theory and practice at this workshop will be on neighbourhood development and community health.
Collective Impact 3.0 Edmonton, Alberta | February 28 - March 2, 2018
Challenge yourself to move beyond the original Collective Impact framework and upgrade your CI approach based on your learning and reflection of facilitating real community transformation. Collective Impact 3.0 is a three-day intensive workshop for practitioners in early stage, mid stage and later stage community change work. The workshop will explore the latest in the practice of collective impact from experts, practitioners and early adopters of the work.
211: A Tool for Alleviating Poverty Thursday, January 25 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST
The 211 system is uniquely situated at the interface between the human needs associated with poverty and society’s policy and programmatic responses. This webinar will explore how the 211 system is creating social infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with information about community services, and is increasingly being leveraged by people with lived experience, social service agencies, researchers and social planners, governments and other funders – to effectively address poverty.
Join the 60+ cities, towns, regions, provinces and territories that are already members of Vibrant Communities - Cities Reducing Poverty, a learning community and movement aimed at reducing poverty for 1 million Canadians through aligned poverty reduction strategies at municipal, provincial and federal levels. Benefits of membership include seats to annual Cities Reducing Poverty face to face gatherings, online seminars and practice calls, access to fundraising and evaluation support, and full access to the online learning community at www.vibrantcanada.ca.
