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The Importance of Stories in Community Work

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is simple, usable and transferable to any community. The basis on an ABCD approach is that local assets are identified, and unconnected assets are connected by a local connector.

The ABCD approach is also simple because it focuses on 6 assets - individual resident capacities, local associations, neighbourhood institutions, physical assets, exchange between neighbours, and lastly, maybe even most importantly, stories.

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Outcome Mapping Thinking and Practices for Systems Change

Outcome Mapping (OM) is an approach to evaluative thinking and practice, arising from a holistic and interconnected understanding about development and social change.

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Joining Tamarack and the Movement to End Poverty

As a new Manager of Cities with Tamarack’s Cities Reducing Poverty team, I’m looking forward to joining the movement of dedicated leaders and practitioners across Canada and the United States that are engaging in meaningful, collective action to end poverty.  

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Over 1 Million Canadians Lifted out of Poverty: Q&A With Maytree on Canada's Updated MBM

On February 24, 2020, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) released results from the 2018 Canadian Income survey that showed that, since 2015, more than 1 million Canadians have been lifted out of poverty. This represents the largest three-year reduction in Canadian history. Canada’s poverty rate continues on a downward trend, and poverty rates have decreased since 2015 in all 10 provinces.  

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BC Budget 2020 & What It Means for Poverty Reduction

February was a busy month for poverty reduction efforts in British Columbia as local municipalities submitted their applications for funding under the Poverty Reduction Planning & Action Program.  

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Co-Design: A Necessary Skillset for Community-Led Development

F'or the community, by the community’ is the rallying cry for community-led development – where those who are most impacted are involved in developing solutions for their own future.

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