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Parkdale and the People’s Economy Project: Highlights of a CCI Study Tour

On Wednesday, September 29th, Approximately 30 individuals attending the Tamarack Community Change Conference filed onto a bus to travel to Toronto’s vibrant Parkdale neighbourhood for an innovations in poverty reduction workshop and walking tour. 

Our first stop on the tour was the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre (PARC), where we were greeted by Executive Director, Victor Ellis. PARC was the ultimate host and starting place for the tour, considering the pivotal support it has given over the last 30+ to the neighbourhood’s high proportion of low-income and marginalized residents.

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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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