Last month, the Deepening Community team hosted Tamarack's first in-person event in over two years. This blog post is a reflection of the most significant learning I took away from the event.
Cities Deepening Community has been working with communities and organizations across Canada and internationally since 2016. We are building a vibrant network of communities that are committed to strengthening neighbourhoods and fostering positive community change through resident-led action.
We support communities to increase a sense of belonging, citizenship, resilience, and well-being while also fostering community security and strengthening local economies. We do this by hosting community of practices, webinars, and events, producing publications that share our learnings and supporting our members with specialized coaching.
The CDC team is here to support you. Do you have any questions? Want to get involved? Reach out to any member of the team: Heather Keam and Connor Judge.
Over the Summer, the Tamarack Institute has worked with the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness Fellow, Muhammad Raza, to dive deeply into the seven impacts of making community essential. This webinar will go through their research and provide examples of how communities, municipalities, and other orders of government can have significant impacts by developing and supporting strategies at the local level.
In this webinar, our consulting Director of Evaluating Impact, Jean-Marie Chapeau, will sit down with Abundant Community Edmonton’s Howard Lawrence, for a conversation on the 2020 Impact report from Abundant Community Edmonton, the lessons learned from evaluating the impact of citizens sharing their gifts and how to make evaluation simple and accessible for everyone.
Increasingly, communities are using collaboration to tackle some of their most complex issues. How can we engage in collaboration effectively when we don’t build practices which engage others and build trust?
Join Liz Weaver for this virtual workshop designed to help you build the core leadership competency of trust-building. Equip yourself with ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact.
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If you want support to develop a community plan or neighbourhood strategy, reach out to Heather or Dan.
Cities are now developing neighbourhood strategies that help guide municipal staff, organizations, and residents to work together to build healthy vibrant neighbourhoods. This guide is for municipal staff or community groups interested in building the case for the development of a neighbourhood strategy.
If you are looking to build a neighbourhood strategy, this guide will provide you with tools and resources to assist you in engaging the community and, ultimately, developing a meaningful, actionable strategy.
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) starts with people’s gifts and strengths (assets). These assets equip people to respond to local needs and challenges in their neighbourhoods. ABCD also considers how individual and group assets can be harnessed and connected to create positive changes within a community.
Building a successful group takes time, resources, relationships and trust. In this guide, you will find five steps and associated resources to help build groups that will work together to make change in your community.
Check out our latest blogs, publications, podcasts, and webinars below.
Last month, the Deepening Community team hosted Tamarack's first in-person event in over two years. This blog post is a reflection of the most significant learning I took away from the event.
One argument for diversity is that it ensures participation and creates the power of being heard. It is expressed by the popular maxim, “Nothing about us without us.” Implicit in this idea is the concept that those outside...
In a March 2022 webinar titled Thinking like a System and Leading with Humility, celebrated author Margaret Wheatley reflected on the seemingly incompatible concepts of leading, system and humility. Who else besides Wheatley...
With the growing sense of disconnect and social isolation happening in communities across Canada and the lack of civic participation in our towns and cities, we need to declare community essential. We believe that Deepening...
This case study by Dan Ritchie, Hardy Steinke, Nicole Bonder and Christine Bennett explores the ABCD approach of Heart Comonos in Cooksville-Mississauga, Ontario.
In this article, Heather Keam, Associate Director of Cities Deepening Community, introduces what a neighbourhood strategy is, its limitations and why it is important to centre the community or neighbourhood when we develop...
This webinar recording features a fireside chat about the role that everyday citizens can play in promoting safety in their communities.
Acknowledging the traditional role that police have played in relation to formally...
This webinar recording features a fireside chat with Deanna Butz from Stony Plain and author Dave Runyon as they talk about the importance of focusing your work on building neighbour relationships and what that means for...
In this webinar, Mayor Lisa Helps of Victoria, BC, sits down with Margaret Wheatley for a fireside chat about systems thinking and changing the way we as cities/towns think about working collectively. What kind of leader do...
Access a list of comprehensive community engagement techniques that can be selected based on the level of engagement you are conducting
Access a list of comprehensive community engagement techniques that can be selected based on the level of engagement you are conducting
Access a list of comprehensive community engagement techniques that can be selected based on the level of engagement you are conducting