Seven Cities Reducing Poverty members across Canada are successfully applying the five conditions of Collective Impact to their work. Learn how applying Collective Impact conditions to your work can help move the needle on poverty in your community.
With limited time and resources available to groups addressing major social changes, there is a deep desire to move away from reporting for reporting sake to undertaking an evaluation that furthers a collaborative’s work by revealing its outcomes.
SAVE THE DATE - The End of Poverty gathering is happening October 14-16, 2020, in Calgary, AB!
Over the two and a half days, you will learn from inspiring keynotes and peer leaders, take part in interactive workshops, and engage in an energizing cultural celebration. Together we will learn to:
Reconnect your passion for helping others and energizing your community.
Understand what it takes to move from an emerging state to a sustainable community-wide initiative.
Create a large-scale common agenda and form multi-sector leadership teams for your collaborative efforts.
Harness the latest techniques for community engagement and effective communication.
Involve those who will benefit most from the change you hope to see.
How to influence the policy environment and align your work with Canada’s first poverty reduction strategy.
Hamilton program aims to help people out of poverty through the kitchen.
Haliburton Kawartha Lakes poverty reduction roundtable recommends food charter and food action plan for the County of Haliburton.
London livable wage increases by 4.3% says London Poverty Research Centre.
Montreal - Centraide of Greater Montreal launched their #unignorable campaign, bringing awareness to poverty-related social issues that often go unnoticed.
Niagara leading growth of living wage program in Ontario with 28 businesses and organizations certified as living wage employers.
Oxford County Poverty awareness comes to Oxford county; residents urged to remember poverty isn’t a far-off issue.
Powell River released Living Wage calculations; report suggests families may benefit from new BC government initiatives.
Strathcona County Family and Community Services will be hosting the inaugural Social Summit: From Isolation to Connection.
Toronto is the working age poverty capital of Canada.
Vancouver city invents in non-profit sector to build community and organizational capacity, support poverty and support innovative projects.
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This interactive workshop focuses on the core leadership competency of trust-building. Learners will walk away with ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact.
Join us for a hands-on facilitation workshop on different approaches to engage the community to innovate together, how to understand what makes these kinds of gatherings distinct, and tools that you can use to host them.
Join the 70+ cities, towns, regions, provinces and territories that are already members of Vibrant Communities - Cities Reducing Poverty, a social movement aimed at reducing poverty through the place-based efforts of multi-sector roundtables and the alignment of strategies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels.
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