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Get to KNOW Poverty: The 2018 Poverty Studies Summer Institute

What are your plans this summer? Could they include professional and/or personal development?

The Poverty Studies Summer Institute is a chance to be part of an intimate learning community with peers – practitioners, people...

Cities Reducing Poverty Quarterly Policy Digest: May 2018

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Cities Reducing Poverty Policy Digest. The Digest aims to provide you with timely poverty-related policy updates and resources from across Canada. 

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(Dis)ability and “Enough Already”

Since attending the recent asset-based community development (ABCD) event in Kitchener, I have begun to think that I may have gotten something about community development fundamentally wrong by thinking of the term...

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CASE STUDY | Social Innovation and Community Economic Development in Vancouver

CASE STUDY | Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Community Economic Development Strategy proactively and innovatively leverages the neighbourhood’s talents, ambition, and assets. It supports residents to access a continuum of...

ARTICLE | When Vibrant Communities Have an Impact

ARTICLE | This article documents how Living SJ and the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, two members of Vibrant Communities’ Cities Reducing Poverty network, have made the transition to a Collective Impact approach. ...

TOOL | Establishing Values and Principles for Working Together

TOOL | Most collective impact and collaborative efforts benefit from establishing a core set of values and principles for working together. The time spent upfront agreeing to a core set of values and principles can save time...

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Adaptive Leadership Masterclass: Adaptive Leadership for Collaborative Impact
5 Cities Across Canada
May 23-29, 2018

This intensive Masterclass will equip you with the tools, processes and most importantly the leadership practice to make a real and meaningful change, through your own collaborative initiative. When you change how you work with different people and organizations the system can change with you.

 

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Cities Innovating to Reduce Poverty

Vancouver, British Columbia

June 12-13, 2018

We welcome you to join us for the Cities Innovating to Reduce Poverty summit (Western Canada), hosted by Tamarack’s Vibrant Communities and the City of Vancouver, from June 12-13, 2018 in Vancouver, BC. This event will elevate conversations about innovation in poverty reduction and will feature the unique role of city, provincial and federal strategies. Come hear fabulous speakers, join experiential tours and work together in interactive workshops all in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

 

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Vibrant Communities

We develop and support learning communities to help people collaborate, co-generate knowledge and achieve collective impact on complex community issues.

Cities Reducing Poverty

Cities Reducing Poverty is a collective impact movement aimed at reducing poverty for 1 million Canadians through the efforts of local multi-sector roundtables and the alignment of poverty reduction strategies at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
The Latest from Cities Reducing Poverty:

Get to KNOW Poverty: The 2018 Poverty Studies Summer Institute

Cities Reducing Poverty Quarterly Policy Digest: May 2018

Kingston Youth Summit: Peer Workshops Raise Awareness and Build Skills to Prevent Homelessness
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Cities Deepening Community

Cities Deepening Community is dedicated to developing our collective understanding about the power of citizens and supporting programs, policies and practices that strengthen communities and neighbourhoods and mobilize citizen leadership to enhance social capital.
The Latest from Cities Deepening Community:

(Dis)ability and “Enough Already”

Walking for Water: Walking for Life

Why We Need to Start the Conversation with What’s Strong, Not What’s Wrong
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