LEAG advises the implementation and evaluation of Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, their efforts highlights how to successfully balance the voices of lived/living experience with staff accountability, while providing an avenue for individuals with lived/living experience to participate in city processes.
Successful poverty reduction efforts progress through four key phases and share similar milestones. Saint John, New Brunswick has journeyed through each phase of progress, and showcases how the work can unfold, and the challenges that may arise along the way.
Calgary: Refreshed poverty reduction strategy ‘Enough for All 2.0’ released.
Dufferin County: Study finds 45 homeless on a given day in 2018.
Edmonton: Let's Do This Alberta campaign video encourages political action on poverty
Hamilton: Community rallies together to respond to budget cuts that hurt the most vulnerable.
Haldimand-Norfolk: Poverty Action Partnership makes council aware of poverty issues in the county.
London: Unique London youth shelter closer to reality with $2.9M federal grant.
Montreal: Four allies, one end game: to eradicate homelessness in Montreal.
North Perth: Certified as the second municipal living wage employer in Ontario.
Saint John: When Children Succeed, We Break the Cycle of Poverty; project update.
Sudbury: [Video] Poverty Challenge shines a bright light on the realities of living in poverty.
Vancouver: Living Wage decreases for first time in 11 years in Metro Vancouver according to CCPA.
Windsor-Essex: 2019 Living Wage calculated at $15.15 per hour; representing a $0.34 per hour increase.
Celebrating Franco Savoia
Franco Savoia, Executive Director of Vibrant Communities Calgary (VCC), is retiring effective August 31, 2019. Franco assumed his role at VCC on June 3, 2013, on his previous retirement after a 43-year career in the YMCA in a number of communities across our country.
We extend our thanks and deep appreciation to Franco for his leadership of the VCC team in guiding the implementation of Enough for All since January 2015.
Please join us in congratulating Franco on his next retirement!
Learning Opportunities
Webinars
The Financial Empowerment Ecosystem Model
May 23, 2019 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Learn about the financial empowerment ecosystem and consider how you and your partners can unlock more income opportunities for residents in your city or community
Join this webinar to learn how OpportUNITY is tackling the critical issues that cause people to live in poverty, how small collective actions are leading to huge impacts, and how they are capturing and making sense of those outcomes.
By combining both design and evaluation techniques, you'll return to your organization with a diverse toolset that will boost your capacity to drive and evaluate changes to the systems that form the base of complex community challenges.
Workshop: Engaging People with Lived/Living Experience in Poverty Reduction
May 29, 2019 | Calgary, AB
Based on Tamarack’s TEN guide on engaging people with lived/living experience, this workshop will present emerging ideas from the field and will animate case studies that illustrate how these ideas are being championed across Canada. This workshop is part of the Canadian Poverty Institute’s Summer Institute and is free of charge.
Join together with changemakers from near and far to deepen your knowledge of the 5 practices needed to move your community change agenda from idea to practice to impact.
Join the 70+ 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.citiesreducingpoverty.ca.
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