This series of four webinars highlight how a collective impact approach can be used to improve community outcomes for underrepresented youth. You will be introduced to core conditions found in the collective impact framework.
We co-developed this guide with youth leaders and representatives from youth-serving organizations to shine a light on the principles and practices that lead to meaningful youth engagement.
These lessons will ensure you have the power to make a stellar leadership team to help you and your team achieve the outcomes of the CBYF initiative. Take the reins and lead the leaders.
In this field note, you’ll see how an Empathy Map can help your initiative gain insight into the needs of those you are hoping to impact.
The Government of Canada and its partners are currently accepting applications for three major funding opportunities for communities. Through the funding opportunities, communities can apply for funding to support public...
In June 2020, Tamarack Institute launched the Community Innovation Fund: an annual opportunity for Communities Building Youth Futures to prototype a new program, product, service, or system to improve education, employment,...
The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority’s (NPCA) nature school is an alternative school for primary students in the Niagara Region, focused on building students’ self-confidence and connection with nature through ...
The pandemic has intensified the digital divide for youth across Canada. Building the Bridge to Youth Success: Overcoming the Digital Divide, a series of essays from 8 youth-focused organizations, shows us how we can use...
The digital divide experienced by many youths in communities in Canada had a significant impact on youths’ ability to participate and succeed in school, to connect with their peers, and to access opportunities and supports.
Portage la Prairie’s Roving Campus is a new innovative initiative created by three local teachers with support from the Portage la Prairie School Division. Launched in 2020, the Roving Campus operates five days a week. Three...
The Opportunity Youth Forum was launched in 2012 as a national movement to create innovative, place-based and collaborative solutions to reconnect America’s then 6.7 million opportunity youth to education and employment.
Youth are the future of our communities. The more we can support them to be successful, the more we are helping our communities to be prosperous.
How can we ensure that the work we do is youth-centered and reflective of youth voice? Meaningfully engaging youth often requires a different approach than engaging adults, particularly in evaluation. How can we move beyond...
This is a free bi-monthly online magazine from Communities Building Youth Futures that offers the latest resources and articles on collaboration and community change to support young people as well as information for all of our upcoming events and learning opportunities.
