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Sharing Stories of Success: From The Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council - A Focus on Youth Employment

About the Council

The Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council (WPRC) is a multi-sectoral table comprised of 35-40 local leaders representing all sectors of our community including business, government, health, education, labour, faith, the Indigenous community and non-profit community organizations. 

The Council, which meets regularly throughout the year, was established by United Way of Winnipeg in 2007 based on a collective desire to address the underlying causes of poverty and the thinking that no one sector alone can successfully address the complexities of poverty reduction. Council members came together committed to working collectively to engage the community, deepen their understanding of the issues, and pursue opportunities for innovative solutions and systems change.  

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Exploring Poverty Reduction Game Changers with VC Canada Members

We Are Looking for Your Ideas 

Help make this innovative approach work! Ideas and suggestions from Cities Reducing Poverty members and broader learners of the Vibrant Communities Canada network are critical to developing a solid foundation in which to identify key levers that have large impacts on poverty reduction. 

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YAM CAM: A Film Screening for Youth, By Youth

By Evan Read Armstrong
Interim Director, Youth Active Media

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The Force That Bounces the World

This may be the easiest assignment Vickie and I have ever had.

The good folks at the Plan Institute and Tamarack Institute have asked us to host a webinar series on the ingenuity of people with disabilities and their families.

Easy, because innovation is the core competency of people with disabilities and their families.

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CCI 2016 Reflections: Everything We Do Is Built Upon Something Else

Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) is dedicated to the holistic transformation of communities in and around Memphis, Tennessee. Using the principles of Communities of Shalom, we strive to engage, equip, and mobilize others to seek shalom in their neighborhoods and communities.

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From Beating the Odds to Changing the Game

We live in a world where addressing complex social issues most often involves working tirelessly to bring groups and communities together to work against existing social norms and “beat the odds,” which are stacked against us. We see small numbers of individuals work their way out of the systems that are built to work against them, yet we often don’t ever realize the results we are hoping for. What if we shifted the way we approach social change from beating the odds and overcoming adversity to changing the system itself, shifting the norms of our society to level the playing field?

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