community innovation

Looking beyond proven practices to create new, never-before considered solutions that are meaningful to the community.

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The Innovation Ambition Continuum

The Three Ambitions Continuum is a mash-up of some of the most popular change-oriented frameworks floating around the field that aims to provide one way that social innovators can make sense of it all.

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Stories of Impact

10 Stories of Community Innovation for Youth

Learn how recipients of Tamarack's Community Innovation fund implemented pilots and documented their learnings, including successes, challenges, impact on youth, and barriers that youth experienced over the course of the project.

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meet the director

Sonja is the Consulting Director of Tamarack Institutes’s Community Innovation Area. She is a dynamic educator, social scientist, and innovator with over 16 years of experience in the sector. Having lived, worked, and played in over 90 countries, she has a broad spectrum of international experience that cuts across the public, private and civil society sectors.

Sonja is a long-standing advocate for community-led innovation and development. Known for bringing larger-than-life initiatives into being, Sonja thrives on building meaningful relationships and connecting the dots in innovative ways.

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Community-based Social Innovation Labs

Exploring Inclusive Co-design - How might we develop new and equitable ways of engaging and co-designing with people with lived experience?

How can community innovation contribute to building belonging?

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Generating the results that communities urgently need to tackle today’s social challenges will require more than simply making incremental changes to our current approaches. As dynamic ‘living labs’, communities offer the perfect container for innovation.

Our experience with community change has taught us to appreciate that to be effective, Community Innovation requires an appreciation of both the issue one is hoping to address, as well as a deep understanding of the unique characteristics of the community – the place and the people within it – where the innovation will be implemented. Successful Community Innovation is context-specific. Solutions that have been proven effective in one community can, at best, serve as a source of inspiration for another community.

community innovation

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The Innovation Ambition Continuum

Stories of Impact

10 Stories of Community Innovation for Youth

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The Community Innovation Imperative

The Introduction to Community Innovation

Community Innovation: A Place-Based Approach to Social Innovation

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