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Where Can Your Work Have the Most Impact?

Last year I began a series of papers focused on exploring current methods and approaches for Community Innovation - methods that can help changemakers discover and steward opportunities for positive change in communities.

Community Adhesive: A Discussion on the Work of Aristotle and John McKnight

I love reading, unfortunately, I can’t commit to reading one book for an extended period, thus leaving many suspended mid-chapter. Outside of cluttering my nightstand, such a practice allows me to bring a variety of thinkers...

Balancing Doing the Work Fast and Doing the Work Right

Relentless incrementalism is the key to social change. There are many
external influences that, despite how hard we work, will push progress back or catapult it forward. Particularly, the social, economic, and political...
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TOOL | Compendium of Collective Impact Resources Part Six: Engaging Stakeholders to Build Movements for Change

Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the needle at a population or systems change scale.  It is not a useful framework when the purpose of the...

TOOL | Compendium of Collective Impact Resources Part Five: Evaluating Collective Impact Efforts

Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the needle at a population or systems change scale.  It is not a useful framework when the purpose of the...

WEBINAR | The End of Working Poverty: Strategies

Across the country, over a million families struggle to make ends meet despite working one, two or sometimes even three jobs and have to choose between putting food on the table and paying electrical bills. Now more than...

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We host amazing workshops, webinars and communities of practices - all designed to make your community change work easier and more effective.

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Citizens at the Centre

Citizens at the Centre: A Community Engagement Thought-Leader Series
Coming to Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver

Citizens at the Centre is a special one-day workshop with Max Hardy, a leading Australian Community Engagement consultant, along with Liz Weaver and Sylvia Cheuy of the Tamarack Institute to learn core principles and innovative practices to better engage your community.

 

Drawing on case studies from Australia and Canada, as well as techniques and activities that demonstrate alternative ways to meaningfully engage communities/citizens throughout the lifespan of your project, workshop participants will leave with the confidence to design and lead efforts to generate effective solutions to address our most challenging community issues.

 

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ABCD: Healthy Neighbourhoods, Healthy Cities
May 28-30 | Edmonton, AB
 

Join over 250 community and neighbourhood development practitioners to explore the use of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and explore leading neighbourhood revitalizing techniques.

 

ABCD: Healthy Neighbourhoods, Healthy Cities is Canada's premier gathering of community development leaders. To help you grow your community, we're bringing  seven of the world’s top authors and practitioners in the field who will offer the opportunity for learners to earn a masterclass certificate in either Asset-Based Community Development or Neighbourhood Revitalization.

 

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Learning Centre

Tamarack’s Learning Centre exists to empower community changemakers to achieve greater impact. We draw upon our 15 years of experience leading community change and advancing practice to support municipalities, funders, non-profits, and community leaders through on-demand coaching and consulting, in-person and digital training, and publications that guide change efforts.

We support our learning network in developing five interconnected ideas that lead to community change:

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Evaluating Community Impact
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Vibrant Communities

In Vibrant Communities we support cities and local leaders to develop and implement large-scale change initiatives through two learning networks:

Cities Reducing Poverty

Cities Reducing Poverty is a network of more than 175 cities represented by 61 regional partners who are working collaboratively to end poverty in their communities.  
The Latest from Cities Reducing Poverty:

Balancing Doing the Work Fast and Doing the Work Right

Taking on My New Role With Vibrant Communities

Tamarack Featured in The Record on Fight Against Poverty
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Cities Deepening Community

Cities Deepening Community is a network of 67 cities seeking to strengthen neighbourhoods and 25 cities developing community plans to grow citizen engagement, civic leadership and a sense of belonging. 
The Latest from Cities Deepening Community:

Community Adhesive: A Discussion on the Work of Aristotle and John McKnight

A New Chapter for Cities Deepening Communities

Reflecting on the Basics of Effective Meetings
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