Vibrant Communities

Toronto's Lived Experience Advisory Group Advising on a Municipal Strategy

Learn how the LEAG successfully balances the voices of lived/living experience with staff accountability, while providing an avenue for individuals with lived/living experience to participate in city processes.

Four Phases of Poverty Reduction in Saint John

Learn how Saint John, New Brunswick’s journeyed through each phase of progress, with the goal of providing other collaboratives with a sense of how the work can unfold, including which challenges may be encountered along the way. 

Illuminating Systems Change in Winnipeg

Learn how the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council (WPRC) has embedded the Six Conditions of Systems Change model within their Indigenous Youth Employment strategy.

Ideas We Should Steal: Reducing Poverty - Together

In Canada, communities lifted more than 200,000 families out of poverty in seven years. Why don’t we do what they did? Philadelphia Citizen's Roxanne Patel features Paul Born in a piece showcasing Tamarack's poverty reduction work.

Winning the War on Poverty

According to recently released data, between 2015 and 2017, Canada reduced its official poverty rate by at least 20 percent. Roughly 825,000 Canadians were lifted out of poverty in those years, giving the country today its lowest poverty rate in history.

A Guide for Engaging People With Lived/Living Experience

Informed by the 10 Lived/Living Experience Advisory Committee, this guide was written to support poverty-reduction groups to meaningfully engage people with lived/living experience. It celebrates the potential that can be unlocked when these individuals are included and empowered to drive antipoverty work.

 A Collection Of Poverty Reduction Strategies

This collection of poverty reduction strategies provides a glimpse into the work of eight Cities Reducing Poverty members. It shines a spotlight on some of the poverty reduction efforts across Canada in diverse geographies and cities of different sizes. 

Living Wage

This Community of Practice focuses on case studies, tools and techniques that members of collaborations use to research, analyze and affect living wages and employer human resource practices.

Municipal Government for Poverty Reduction

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.

Provincial/Territorial Government for Poverty Reduction

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 capacity.

BC Communities Reducing Poverty

This Community of Practice 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. 

Vibrant Communities City Convenor

This 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.