Virtual Monthly Sessions| February - August 2024
Join our second Changemaker cohort and experience a seven-month learning journey alongside a diverse group of peers. You'll explore all facets of the community and systems impact approach including the core principles that drive place-based change forward, enhancing your change and impact skillsets and deepening your understanding of the frameworks or ways of working to support you to translate your social change goals into reality.
The Changemaker Experience includes a seven-part workshop series, coaching support, and access to the latest thinking, tools, and resources all designed to increase your skills and competencies in leading and driving change.
Virtual Workshop | December 6, 2023
Join leaders of community-based collaboratives for a half-day virtual workshop that will help you strengthen and share the mindsets and skills of collaborative leadership.
This virtual workshop is designed for leaders of multi-sector collaboratives, backbone staff of collective impact efforts, funders, and other leaders who are working together to pursue shared goals.
The workshop will provide you with essential mindsets, skillsets, and resources to apply what you are learning to advance your day-to-day work.
Online Course | Learn at your own pace
Join Tamarack's Lisa Attygalle, Director of Community Engagement, in this new online course designed to build a foundation of knowledge and practice for your community engagement work.
Through video lessons, case studies, readings, and activities, you'll dig into the role of community, who should be engaged, community engagement techniques, how to overcome challenges, and how to evaluate your engagement activities.
This course is available to use at your own pace, but you'll be learning alongside a diverse group of Tamarack Institute learners, and have the opportunity to join Lisa for monthly small group coaching to get more personalized feedback and insight.
Online Course | Learn at your own pace
Join Tamarack's Sylvia Cheuy, Director of Collective Impact, in this online course designed to establish a foundational understanding of the Collective Impact Framework.
Learners will have the opportunity to join Sylvia for monthly small group coaching to get more personalized feedback and insight.
Online Course | Learn at your own pace
Join Vibrant Communities' Natasha Pei, Manager of Cities, in this new five-module course. Topics include Ending Working Poverty, Governments and Communities Ending Poverty, and Big Ideas for Ending Poverty.
Through this course, you'll be guided through reflective questions and exercises that will help you make the most of the course materials and content. This course is designed to help you learn at your own pace as you advocate for and advance high-impact ending poverty pathways in your community.
Online Course | Learn at your own pace
Join Tamarack's Jean-Marie Chapeau, Director of Participatory Evaluation, in this new online course designed to build a foundation of knowledge and practice for a participatory evaluation
This online course is designed to help you learn at your own pace as you work on developing and implementing a successful Participatory Evaluation.
Online Course | Learn at your own pace
Join Vibrant Communities' Heather Keam, Associate Director of Cities Deepening Community, in this online course designed for individuals who want to make their neighbourhood a better place, on-the-ground staff to support residents to build a plan, or municipal staff who have been tasked with putting a plan together.
Learn more and Register
Tamarack hosts a number of free webinars throughout the year featuring the latest ideas and thought-leaders from the field of community change. By registering for a webinar, you can participate live or gain access to the recording and presentation slides and resources after the broadcast. Click on the below links to learn more and register for each of our upcoming webinars.
Date: December 6, 2023
Speakers: Justin Chan, Wayne Paddick, Brenda Walsh and Duncan Field
Date: January 17, 2024
Speakers: Jason Shim, Charles Buchanan and the CyberPeace Institute
Date: January 22, 2024
Speakers: Tom Cooper, Jiaying Zhao, Jessie Golem, Sheila Regehr, Evelyn Forget and Tracy Smith-Carrier
Date: January 30, 2024
Speakers: Jenica Ng-Cornish, Marissa Lawrence, Joshua McNeely, Jon Beale and Laura Schnurr
Date: January 31, 2024
Speakers: Lisa Helps, Heather Keam and Justin Williams
Tamarack's Communities of Practices (CoPs) are small, interactive groups of practitioners who connect virtually monthly or bi-monthly to share experiences, tools, ideas and challenges in order to learn ways they can grow and expand their work. Joining a CoP can help you deepen your knowledge and professional connections around a focused aspect of your work. Through actively contributing to the agendas and meeting discussions, you'll be able to access a community of like-minded peers who can help you expand and develop your own thinking and practice as it relates to your work.
Our Current CoP listings are:
Strengthening the Mindset & Skills for Leading a Collaborative
December 6, 2023
2024 Changemaker Experience Cohort
February - October 2024
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”I just want to tell you how much I loved the conference in Edmonton. The speakers and workshops were amazing. You did an excellent job of pulling this together. I can’t stop thinking about how I can apply what I learned in my work. Thanks so much for all that you and everyone involved did to help us all feel welcomed and part of a movement. I will recommend next year’s conference to others.”
- ABCD Edmonton participant
“One of the best workshops I've been to! Very well organized. I took notes and ideas about how to run a good workshop just as much as I took notes on the content.”
- Evaluation + Design participant
"My passion has always to spend time in Life-Long Learning and Tamarack continues to offer new ways of thinking and/or doing!!! Thanks for all you do!!”
- Community Engagement participant
“Thank you for organizing a festival (not a workshop or a conference) for focusing on creating a learning place, rather than teaching - this way is key. Thank you for weaving Toronto into the event - it was almost another presenter. I wanted to let you know that it was deeply meaningful, only on the professional, but on human, personal level. Thank you again.”
- Community Change Festival participant
”Thank you for the opportunity to be part of this VERY well organized event! I met many people and left energized. We will continue to prioritize attending these events.”
- Poverty Reduction Summit Participant
”This conference has been an amazing experience! It was interactive and accessible with top notch speakers and presenters and a presence of at least 2 levels of government.”
- Mayors Summit participant
Tamarack offers a variety of single-day workshops, facilitators, and topics to help your community accelerate their impact. We offer
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