This peer learning library archives Communities Ending Poverty's CoP meeting notes, PowerPoints and additional resources.
| Policy and Advocacy |
|
Election campaigns and advocacy efforts
|
|
Social Procurement - BC CoP, 2022 |
| Housing and Homelessness |
|
An overview and analysis of Canada's National Housing Strategy - All CEP Convenor Call, 2018 |
|
Rural Development Network's guide to developing affordable housing in rural areas - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP, 2021 |
|
A scan of housing and homelessness trends and interventions in middle rural Ontario (round robin) - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP , 2021 |
|
Guelph-Wellington's YIMBY campaign - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP, 2021 |
|
Host Homes youth homelessness prevention program - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP, 2021 |
|
City of New Westminster safe, affordable housing policies, plans and programs - BC CoP, 2017 |
|
City of Kamloops Affordable Housing Developers Package - BC CoP, 2017 |
| Youth, Early Childhood Development and Child Care |
|
|
Attracting Youth to Lead the Cause - Convenor CoP, June, 2022 |
|
Follow-up conversation with Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) - Convenor CoP, July, 2022 |
|
Overview of the 2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card - BC COP, March 2023 |
| Food Security |
|
Food Resilience Series - BC CoP, 2020-2021
|
|
Kristi Estergaard, from Interior Health discussed food security as an income-related issue. Her presentation was followed by a group discussion on how to tackle food security issues at the local level, and how practitioners can influence both income and food policy - BC CoP, July 2019 |
|
Food Costing in BC 2022: Assessing the affordability of health eating report - BC CoP, 2023 |
| Financial Empowerment |
|
Revelstoke Financial Literacy Project - BC CoP 2016 Prosper Canada on integrating Financial Empowerment initiatives within municipal work - Municipal Government CoP, 2018
New Westminster's Financial Survival Kit - BC CoP, 2020 Community Volunteer Income Tax Program - BC CoP, 2017 |
| Prosper Canada presented an overview of successful on-the-ground approaches to utilizing financial empowerment as a poverty reduction tool - BC CoP 2018 |
| Income Security |
|
Basic Income Resources (full library here)
|
|
Calculating the Living Wage - BC CoP, 2021 |
|
Future Oxford's Workforce Development Partnership - Municipal Government CoP, 2019 |
|
Decent Work and the Labour Crunch: Attracting and Retaining Great Employees - Private Webinar June 1, 2022 (Link posted soon) |
|
2022 CEP Basic Income Atlantic Canada Summit - November 2022 (Tamarack Insitute apologizes for the mis-spelled last name of Elizabeth (Mandy) Kay-Raining Bird) |
|
Living Wage Week - BC CoP, 2022 |
| Transportation |
|
Calgary's sliding scale transit pass - Municipal Government CoP, 2017
|
| Report: Navigating Rural: Place-based Transit Solutions for Rural Canada |
| Urban and rural BC transportation challenges and solutions - BC CoP, 2019 |
|
City of Vancouver's Reduced Fare Transit Pilot & Cape Breton's Transportation Innovation Lab - BC CoP, March 2022 |
|
Exploring Rural Transportation - CoP, Sept 2022
|
| Health |
|
Municipal responses to the opioid crisis - Municipal Government CoP, 2018 |
|
Helpseeker.org - connecting with local resources and supports - BC CoP, April 2020 |
|
Jennifer Wright, clinical psychologist presented A Trauma-Informed Lens to COVID-19 Recovery, followed by a facilitated a discussion around how attendees were applying this lens, challenges they were facing, what next steps they saw toward applying a trauma-informed lens to social recovery in their own communities - BC CoP, Sept 2020
|
|
Poverty and the pandemic - with Revelstoke & Vancouver - Lessons learned - BC CoP, Sept 2021 |
| Diversity, Equity Inclusion |
|
Introduction to reconciliation, with Reconciliation Canada - BC CoP, 2018 Charlene Seward of Reconciliation Canada joined Liz Weaver to create a safe space to discuss our shared history, the meaning of reconciliation, and how we can all meaningfully engage in reconciliation in our day to day lives. Through an engaging Q & A period, Charlene answered a variety of questions about reconciliation and how we can approach such an important topic. The recording of the session is now available online. You can also download the presentation slides. Take your learning further:
|
|
City of Edmonton's Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiative and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) and Equity toolkit - Municipal Government CoP, 2021 |
| The City of Ottawa's first Women and Gender Equity Strategy - Municipal Government CoP, 2021 |
|
Racism and Equity - BC CoP, 2021
|
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - Member Roundtable, 2022 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - Blog Series, 2022 |
|
Montreal’s 2030 framework is a good example of embedding DEI into all strategies, including poverty reduction and climate transitions. https://app.hubspot.com/file-preview/316071/file/49183295055/ (internal link) Toronto has a strong commitment as well, and actually uses DEI as an umbrella strategy with poverty reduction, seniors, youth and newcomers nestled under it. https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accessibility-human-rights/equity-diversity-inclusion/ |
|
Participatory Grantmaking to Build Equity and Inclusion - MGR CoP, September 2022 |
|
The Intersection of Climate Transitions, Poverty and Equity - BC CoP 2022 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP - Sept 2022 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP - October 2022 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP - November 2022 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP - January 2023 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP February 2023 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP March 2023 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP May 2023 |
|
Accessible Organizations Project - BC CoP May 2023 |
|
Lived/Living Experience - CoP June 2023 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP June 2023 |
|
Anti-Racism/Equity Frameworks in Poverty Reduction - CoP July 2023 |
| Collective Impact/Plans |
|
Developing a common agenda and writing a poverty reduction plan - BC Learning Series Module One, 2020 |
|
Community Safety and Wellbeing Plans
|
|
Establishing mutually reinforcing activities: tools - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP, 2020 |
|
Montreal's Solidarity and Inclusion plan in the context of growing inequities in urban Montreal - MGR CoP, 2022 |
|
New Westminster's Asset Map - BC CoP, 2016 |
|
SPARC BC, the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, and Tamarack Institute spoke to resources, tools and supports that each organization is able to provide to support Cities and communities to access BC Poverty Reduction Planning and Action Program funding towards developing and implementing local poverty reduction strategies - BC CoP, Jan 2020 UBCM Poverty Reduction Planning & Action Funding Program - BC CoP, Jan 2022 |
|
Roundtable with communities across BC who have completed or will be completing poverty reduction strategies - BC CoP, Nov 2021 |
| Sustainable Funding |
|
Foundations for Sustainable Collaborative Action : Fundraising - by Justin Williams
Mid-Ontario Rural CoP discussion on fundraising - November 2022 |
|
2022 CEP Virtual Member Gathering follow up - All-Convenor CoP December, 2023 |
|
2022 CEP Summit for Strength - All-Convenor CoP June, 2023 |
| Collaborative Governance and Leadership |
|
Key elements of collaborative leadership - BC CoP, 2021 |
|
Shared decision-making tools and techniques - BC Learning Series Module 3, 2020 |
|
Turf, trust and collaboration: How do build trust and what to do when it's broken - All Convenor CoP, 2020 |
|
The ART of Hope: Healing a Wounded City - Private Webinar Recording June 21, 2023 |
|
Sustainability
|
|
Memorandum of Agreement between LRT & Program Delivery Organization
|
|
LRT Coordinator Job Descriptions |
|
Ontario provincial election campaigns and advocacy efforts - Mid-Ontario Rural CoP, 2022 |
| Pathways to increase youth engagement, leadership and prosperity in communities - All Convenor CoP, 2022 |
| Measuring Shared Impact |
|
Shifting from measuring activities to measuring impact - BC Learning Series Module 4, 2020 |
|
Niagara Region's evaluation and communication of municipally-funded poverty reduction projects - MGR CoP, 2019 |
| Community Innovation |
|
Location-based help services network: Helpseeker.org - BC CoP, 2020 |
| Community Engagement |
|
Community engagement for your poverty reduction plan - BC Learning Series Module 2, 2020 |
|
Community engagement during COVID-19 and reaching the hard-to-reach - BC CoP, 2021 |
|
Toronto engaging people with lived/living experience - Municipal Government CoP, 2019 |
|
Municipal community engagement strategies (round robin) - Municipal Government CoP, 2018 |
|
10 - A guide for businesses reducing poverty - when business is engaged - BC CoP, 2017 |
|
Loneliness and poverty reduction: making neighbourhood connections - BC CoP, 2020 |
|
New Westminster's poverty myth busters - BC CoP, 2016 |
|
The “Virtual Community Engagement Guide: A Toolkit for Hosting Online Community Engagement and Meetings in Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Communities” provides guidance and tips on hosting virtual meetings with your community. From tools and technology to logistics and wise practices, this Guide was created to help you address some of the most common virtual meeting barriers and opportunities. The Guide was prepared by Amanda Sheedy, with support from Nature United, and in collaboration with a small group of Indigenous community-based leaders interested in learning and brainstorming how to better engage their communities virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
|
Peer Connections Successes and Challenges - BC CoP, May 2022 |
|
Review the structure of MGR Communities of Practice, brainstormed topics and speakers - MGR CoP, June 2022 |
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity, and truth we honour and acknowledge that our work occurs across Turtle Island (North America), which has been home since time immemorial to the ancestors of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples.
Be in the know. Get the latest updates, events and resources about community change.