Liz Weaver
Liz is passionate about the power and potential of communities getting to impact on complex issues. Liz is Tamarack’s former Co-CEO and Director of Learning Centre. In this role, she provided strategic direction to the organization and led many of its key learning activities, including collective impact capacity-building services for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Liz is one of Tamarack's highly regarded trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on a variety of workshop topics, including collaborative governance, leadership, collective impact, community innovation, influencing policy change and social media for impact and engagement.
Tamarack defines community innovation as “Change, for good, with and within a community. In other words, Community Innovation is a community-championed change with benefits that are meaningful to the community. What makes Community Innovation different from other forms of Social Innovation is the focus on community – placing community members as both the champions and as the arbiters of change.”
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