--- title: The Latest | Mark Holmgren (2) description: Mark Holmgren | (2) --- [![20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Administration/Tamarack%20Logos/20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png?width=200&height=47&name=20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png "20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange")](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) # The Latest Contribute. We love to hear your thoughts, your musings and your latest work. Please share with us! [![Write a post](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1) #### Subscribe. Be in the know. Get the latest updates about community change and building vibrant communities. 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Here is what that jargon means: [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/ending-precarious-employment-a-game-changer-strategy?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Events/Vibrant_Communities/Images/istock-92047967.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/mandatory-winter-tires-and-poverty?hsLang=en-us) ### [Mandatory Winter Tires and Poverty](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/mandatory-winter-tires-and-poverty?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Mark Holmgren](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/mark-holmgren) on February 23, 2017 Yes, perhaps an odd title for a posting. I was on my way back home from meeting downtown with Alberta Government colleagues who also work in the poverty reduction arena and I heard this call-in show about winter tires, and more to the point, about whether or not winter tires should be mandatory. They are mandatory in Quebec now, but even in some provinces without a mandatory requirement, more than 80% of drivers have winter tires. Not so in Alberta, where the percentage is just over 50%. I'm not sure about other low percentage-provinces, but here is what went through my mind. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/mandatory-winter-tires-and-poverty?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Events/Vibrant_Communities/Images/yes-and-no.png) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/more-about-the-game-changer-approach-to-poverty-reduction?hsLang=en-us) ### [More about the Game-Changer Approach to Poverty Reduction](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/more-about-the-game-changer-approach-to-poverty-reduction?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Mark Holmgren](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/mark-holmgren) on February 23, 2017 As some of you know, I have written about and I am continuing to work on what I call a *Game-Changer Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategy and Evaluation*. You can read my initial paper [HERE](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Events/CCI/2016_CCI_Toronto/CCI_Publications/A_Game-Changer_Approach_to_Poverty_Reduction_Strategy_and_Evaluation.pdf?t=1475523717256&hsLang=en-us). And a recording of a webinar I did with Mark Cabaj is [HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6J5nIG-SQ). I have been asked about the difference between Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and this game-changer approach I am working on with my colleagues at [Vibrant Communities Canada](http://www.vibrantcanada.ca/). The game-changers we have identified are: Housing, Transportation, Education, Health, Income and Jobs, Food Security, Financial Empowerment, and Early Childhood Development. All of these are aligned with SDoH, but there is, I suggest, more to what we are exploring than social determinants of health. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/more-about-the-game-changer-approach-to-poverty-reduction?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Events/Vibrant_Communities/Images/solutionbias.png) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/watch-out-for-the-solution-bias?hsLang=en-us) ### [Watch Out for the Solution Bias](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/watch-out-for-the-solution-bias?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Mark Holmgren](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/mark-holmgren) on January 26, 2017 Solutions are exciting, especially those you are a part of creating; but even if the ideas behind them were not your own, implementing a new solution is an intellectual turn-on. Sometimes there is an ego-boost when you are part of something on the “cutting edge.” I wonder though, if at least some of the time solution-makers are so pumped about the potential of their new journey, they overlook pitfalls, obstacles and unintended consequences. I call this, *solution-bias*. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/watch-out-for-the-solution-bias?hsLang=en-us) ### [Movement Building and Collective Impact](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/movement-building-and-collective-impact?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Mark Holmgren](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/mark-holmgren) on January 16, 2017 In an article written for Fast Company, Kaihan Krisppendorff, identifies four steps to building an effective social movement, which I have adapted below: 1. *A community forms around a common goal or aspiration*. 2. *The community mobilizes its resources to act on the goal/aspiration*. 3. *The community crafts solutions and acts to deliver them.* 4. *The movement is accepted by (or actually replaces) the establishment or established regime of laws and policies* ([Source](https://www.fastcompany.com/3006283/4-steps-building-successful-social-movement)). If you are involved in a collective impact initiative, these steps should resonate with you, in particular with [the five conditions of collective impact](https://www.fastcompany.com/3006283/4-steps-building-successful-social-movement). Krisppendorff doesn’t address shared measurement in his post about social movements, but successful movements are always about moving the needle and bringing about systems change to do so. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/movement-building-and-collective-impact?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Events/CCI/2016_CCI_Toronto/CCI_Publications/music_and_evaluation.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/evaluating-poverty-reduction-hearing-the-music-not-the-noise?hsLang=en-us) ### [Evaluating Poverty Reduction: Hearing the Music Not the Noise](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/evaluating-poverty-reduction-hearing-the-music-not-the-noise?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Mark Holmgren](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/mark-holmgren) on October 12, 2016 From a poverty reduction perspective, we are inundated by the sound of many voices: our clients, our funders and donors, our colleagues, governments at all levels, business leaders and their labour counterparts, and on it goes. That’s what this article is about: lessening the noise that envelopes us and increasing our capacity to make music together when it comes to identifying, acting on, and evaluating poverty reduction efforts. 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