The Cities Reducing Poverty Membership Directory 2017 tells a brief story about each of our more than 50 Cities Reducing Poverty members – a learning community and network of local cities, towns, and regions devoted to reducing or ending poverty in their local communities. The directory showcases a short profile for each member, support readers to connect with groups working on similar priority areas, and shares members’ plans, reports, and infographics that can inform others’ efforts in poverty reduction strategy development and reporting.
From a poverty reduction perspective, we are inundated with the voices of our partners and stakeholders, regularly adding our own voices to the mix as well. It’s like sitting in a room with 100 people who are all talking about important things, but where the messages become undecipherable. This article is about lessening the noise that envelopes us and increasing our capacity to make beautiful music together as we identify, act on, and evaluate our poverty reduction efforts.
Medicine Hat, the city credited as being the first to end homelessness, is taking on poverty in all its forms, with a goal of ensuring wellbeing for all citizens by 2030. The THRIVE Strategy to end poverty was a collaboration between the group leading the charge, The Poverty Reduction Leadership Group, and a substantial number of ‘Hatters’ from all walks of life. Rather than alleviating the symptoms of poverty, THRIVE calls for system changes that can prevent and ultimately end poverty by addressing its root causes.
Incomes are an important determinant of well-being and one of the more measureable aspects of poverty. Data can tell us how poverty affects groups of people differently, and how poverty is changing among and within them. This publication discusses how the forthcoming federal poverty reduction strategy must be rooted in evidence, must aim to put an end to widening income inequality, and must reflect the complexity of poverty by involving the many actors that influence and are affected by it.
Toronto’s vision by 2035 is to be a city with opportunities for all, and a leader in the collective pursuit of justice, fairness and equity. The city aspires to be renowned for having access to good jobs, adequate income, stable housing, affordable transportation, nutritious food, and supportive services. This plan reflects key concerns and issues prioritized by Toronto residents during a broad engagement process, with a focus on addressing immediate needs, creating pathways to prosperity, and driving systemic change.
This book explores the efforts of collaborative groups in six different Canadian cities where each one is guided by a desire to employ a comprehensive approach in tackling the interconnected cause-and-effect variables of poverty. It showcases case studies from these communities that provide a rich pool of learning about the multiple and complex factors underlying poverty, as well as the characteristics, challenges, and opportunities of reducing it through comprehensive and integrated responses.
How to Develop a Common Agenda for a Collective Impact: A 5 Step Guide is a paper written by Paul Born that provides a 'how-to' approach to developing a common agenda when working on a Collective Impact initiative. It is not meant to be prescriptive, but to provide a real life example of how this process has taken shape within Paul's experiences, and can act as a reference to fine-tune your own methodology.
This Community of Practice focuses on case studies, tools and techniques that members of collaborations use to research, analyse and affect living wages and employer human resource practices.
This Community of Practice is for municipal or regional government staff who are responsible for, or directly involved in, poverty reduction efforts in their official governmental capacity.
This Community of Practice is for government representatives of all provinces and territories who are responsible for, or directly involved in, poverty reduction efforts in their official governmental capacity.
This Community of Practice is for individuals who are or are working with large populations of indigenous people on poverty reduction, and are interested in sharing best practice information on programming or engagement strategies for Indigenous populations
Vibrant Communities City ConvenorThis Community of Practice is for individuals who belong to the Vibrant Communities Canada - Cities Reducing Poverty network to share ideas and information about their local poverty reduction efforts.
The BC CoP is a committed group of individuals with a common desire to learn from each other, to enable professional self- development, and to build capacities of their local poverty reduction initiatives. The group comes together to share information, experiences and best practices, strengthen collaboration, and better respond to poverty-related issues in their communities.
This CoP is designed to engage individuals who are currently living in poverty or who have lived experience of it, and who want to connect with like-minded others in a supportive, online learning community. Meetings will be focused on the sharing of experiences and advancing the value of lived experience in poverty reduction.
Cities Innovating to Reduce Poverty, hosted by Vibrant Communities and the City of Vancouver, is a two-day event that will facilitate learning and dialogue across sectors, harness the distinctive synergies of today's poverty reduction movement, and take our collective understanding of innovation in poverty reduction to the next level.
Together, we will celebrate our successes and will co-generate impactful solutions to eliminating poverty nationwide.
