Recapping three dynamic days of learning and exploring resilience in a new way
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Recapping three dynamic days of learning and exploring resilience in a new way
Lisa Helps, former Mayor of the City of Victoria, shares how shifting paradigms is possible when local governments are ‘radically open-minded’.
A new report from Prosper Canada shows low-income Canadians are struggling financially but don’t have the help they need to recover.
In January 2023, Tamarack launched 10: A Guide for Building a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration. The Guide draws from many different forms of collaboration and reveals 10 factors which are foundational to building...
This resource will soon be available in French.
This case study from was written by Community Climate Transitions' Chiara Camponeschi. It explores Halifax's Participatory Climate Action Plan.
Safe, adequate and affordable housing is not only essential to tackling the climate emergency, but a crucial requirement to ensuring a brighter future for people in Canada and abroad.
Building off an article we wrote about ...
Check out the May 2023 Edition of Engage!
This issue of Engage! invites features Tamarack's annual report, stories of impact, and our new EDJIR strategy
This guide has been designed to broaden our collective thinking about the factors that contribute to sustainable, resilient, and impactful collaboration.
To help equip you in your own leadership journey, Co-CEO Liz Weaver is launching the Collaborative Leadership & Governance series.
This event will gather Canada’s community development leaders and neighbourhood practitioners to explore Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and bring together communities and municipalities to meet in the middle. We will learn together from towns and cities across North America that have taken a bold shift to change how they show up in community and stop doing to and for community to be more supportive. We will also hear from people who are taking back the function of their neighbourhoods and becoming leaders for change.
This virtual workshop explores lessons and strategies that will help you to design your Collective Impact initiative for maximum impact.
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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:
In Vibrant Communities we support cities and local leaders to develop and implement large-scale change initiatives through these learning networks:
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.
Communities Building Youth Futures is a five-year strategy to work with up to 13 communities to develop system-wide solutions for youth as they build and act upon plans for their future.
Community Climate Transitions is building a network of communities that are committed to tackling climate change through a multi-solving approach that advances social, environmental and economic goals simultaneously.
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Tamarack is a connected force for community change.