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Sharing Successes from Saint John, NB

Posted by Cathy Wright on June 15, 2016

Saint John, New Brunswick is one of Vibrant Communities’ 13 original trail builder communities. They were among the first members to undertake the Vibrant Communities framework, establish a multi-sectoral collaboration, and work towards a set goal of poverty reduction. 

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Increasing Our Ability to Evaluate Complexity

Posted by Milton Friesen on December 23, 2015

Evaluation can be a powerful force for change within organizations. As a result of how we assess our efforts, we pay attention to different areas and invest differently.

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Understanding Measures: Moving from Counting to Accomplishing

Posted by Jay Connor on August 29, 2014
A tsunami of measuring things has hit our community efforts over the past decade. For the most part, this "run it like a business" mantrahas done little harm, but it also has not gotten us to the promised land of transformative change.

There have been critics on both sides of the exercise.  Some will talk about their belief that important things, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to be measured.  While others will identify the insufficiency of the measures chosen.  Still more have called it a distracting fad that takes providers away from the important work of good people doing good things.

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Developmental Evaluation and Developmental Design for Social Innovation

Posted by Cameron Norman on June 15, 2013

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