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Five Elements of Strategic Resource Development

It’s tough out there for non-profits and social causes when it comes to raising money, especially money for core operations and services. All of the seed grants, innovation grants, or target specific project grants are fine and dandy, but the growth in sustainable funding is not growing, is it? Impact Investing, Social Enterprise, and Crowd Funding are among the more recent methods of financing social good, though the extent of their reach and utility by the sector overall are emerging, not yet clearly understood.

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Our Community Can Change | When We Work Together

Later this month, more than two hundred people from across North America and around the world will be meeting in Toronto to learn together and challenge each other to "up our game" in our work of community change.  This is the kind of disruptive leadership that is needed to encourage us all to relentlessly question our own assumptions and approaches in search of more effective ways to tackle our toughest social and environmental challenges.  

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The Canadian Poverty Institute: Healing Poverty in Canada

In 2014, Calgary's Ambrose University embarked on a bold vision: to develop a national academic institute dedicated to the eradication of poverty in Canada. This was the genesis of the Canadian Poverty Institute (CPI) whose mission is “to contribute to the healing of poverty through teaching, research and public education that informs policy and enhances practice.” 

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Bright Spots: Learning from Child-Rich Communities in New Zealand

In New Zealand right now, there is a major government focus on restructuring its services to better support ‘vulnerable children’. There is also concern about growing inequalities, housing affordability and ‘child poverty.’ While big system responses to key national issues matter, so do small local innovations.

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Listening for Crickets

Some people think of me as an expert in a few things, which is okay. It is not okay, however, that I have acted like an expert in most things...if not all things on occasion. 

This awareness is part of the understanding that comes with experience and maturity (which is a nice way of saying "age"). That it took me a while to arrive at this self-understanding is a bit embarrassing yet I'm glad I did. It has dramatically changed how I try to work with individuals and groups. Even more, I think it has changed my relationship with them for better.

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A Neighborhood’s Inner Strength: David Bornstein Shares the Success Story of The Highlands

This is an excerpt of an article Tapping a Troubled Neighborhood's Inner Strength originally published in the New York Times, republished here with generous permission of David Bornstein.

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