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More about the Game-Changer Approach to Poverty Reduction

As some of you know, I have written about and I am continuing to work on what I call a Game-Changer Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategy and Evaluation. You can read my initial paper HERE. And a recording of a webinar I did with Mark Cabaj is HERE.

I have been asked about the difference between Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and this game-changer approach I am working on with my colleagues at Vibrant Communities Canada. The game-changers we have identified are: Housing, Transportation, Education, Health, Income and Jobs, Food Security, Financial Empowerment, and Early Childhood Development. All of these are aligned with SDoH, but there is, I suggest, more to what we are exploring than social determinants of health.

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Going Deeper – Building our Trust Account

In a previous blog, I explored the components of trust including Stephen M.R. Covey’s 5 waves of trust from his book The Speed of Trust. This blog will go a little deeper, exploring how to build a personal trust account.

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Art, Science and Community Connections

Our connectedness to one and other is often what is best about being human.

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Telling a Neighbourhood Resiliency Story by Reading the Data

When Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) decided to pilot a neighbourhood resiliency map for Toronto’s Wards 13 & 14 it asked Jose A. Lao and Santessa Henriques for help. Resiliency is the ability of a community to cope with extreme stressors, make the very best of them, and bounce back afterwards. It sounds straightforward but measuring it is not so simple. 

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Doing Less With More

Often as charities we take pride in how we are able to stretch limited financial resources to help the maximum amount of people. This is something that charitable organizations should be proud of, yet its a mindset that I believe should be changed.

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Three Keys to Building Trust

A Harvard Business Review article describes that to build trust you need to align your interests and motivations with those of the
person you are working with or collaborating with.

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