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title: PAPER | Changing How I Think About Community Change
description: 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. 
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# [PAPER | Changing How I Think About Community Change](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/articles/changing-how-i-think-about-community-change-multisolving)

 Written by [Sylvia Cheuy](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/articles/author/sylvia-cheuy) | Aug 19, 2019 2:10:00 PM

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](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/transform-toronto-multisolving-in-action?hsLang=en-us), 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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