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The Tamarack Institute is a connected force of more than 40,000 engaged practitioners and policymakers who work collaboratively to advance positive community change. Learn more here

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The Compounding Effect of Capacity Building

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on May 1, 2023

 

 

Tamarack’s Learning Centre works with everyday people dedicated to crafting a brighter tomorrow through positive social change, and we do this by helping to build the capacities of our learners and members across various sectors.  

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Expanding Collective Impact Across the Globe

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on May 1, 2023

Collective Impact is a form of collaboration that brings together different sectors to solve large complex problems.

Tamarack's Learning Centre has shared Collective Impact knowledge and wisdom with various groups across Canada and all over the world.

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Influencing and Shifting Community Grant Making

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on May 1, 2023

 

The field of philanthropy is changing towards processes that centre trust and put decision-making power in the hands of those who are closest to the issues – people with lived experience and who are frontline in the work. 

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Learning Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on April 27, 2023

 

Accompanying First Nations communities is a continuous learning process which requires us to question and revisit our approaches and perspectives.

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Together for Strength, Policy Change, and Community

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on April 5, 2023

 

This blog post was written by Danya Pastuszek, Alison Homer, and Justin Williams.

 

In 2020, hundreds of you contributed to Tamarack’s Future Search. That process surfaced an aspiration to use the power of our network to shape a public policy plan and name shifting policy and advocating for systems change as one of Tamarack’s three strategic priorities.

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Introducing the Ending Working Poverty Initiative

Posted by the Tamarack Institute on December 8, 2022
This blog post was written by Danya Pastuszek, Alison Homer, John Stapleton and Yvonne Yuan, in collaboration with the teams at the Town of Drumheller, the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, the Greater Trail Community Skills Centre, United Way Winnipeg and Prosperity Roundtable Chatham-Kent.
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