PAPER | Changing How I Think About Community Change

Many traditional approaches for addressing a complex issue like poverty, health & climate action have, until recently, emphasized siloed, single-sector approaches that focus on a specific set of achievable strategies. Yet through the success of Collective Impact we can see that it is difficult for a single actor to adequately respond to complex community issues. 

This paper profiles Multisolving - a framework emerging from the field of climate action that offers a new approach and an array of helpful tools to those of us wanting to deepen our capacity to harness the power of multi-sector approaches to address our community’s most complex issues. 

Learn More:

  • Read the case study on TransformTO, which adopted a Multisolving approach to meet aggressive environmental targets while also positively contributing to health, the local economy, and social equity at the same time.



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