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Living Wage Week 2022 and Our Current Call to Action

On Wednesday evenings, while my seven-year-old plays basketball, I frequently have warm conversations with a school maintenance professional. She works with intention, and you can tell she believes that the kids in her building are full of promise and potential. She air-fives the coaches. She has taken time to learn about me and to share her perspective on what resources are needed to support young people.

She looks after a school at 6 o’clock at night, instead of eating dinner with the people she loves.

She likely makes around $39,000 CAD per year, which translates to $18.75 an hour.

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Windsor-Essex’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan

In 2019, every municipality in Ontario was mandated to develop a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan that would move their activities and investments upstream.

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From Poverty to Equity: Expanding the Lens in Dufferin County

This blog post was originally published on the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association blog in April 2022.

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Bright Spot: Yes! In My Backyard campaign rises up against NIMBYism

This blog post originally appeared on the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness website. Reposted with permission.

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Leveraging Local Assets through Anchor Collaboratives

In January we heard from Nate Stephens of the Democracy Collaborative and Hanifa Kassam from the Toronto Poverty Reduction Office share their work of Anchor Collaboratives.

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2 Key Elements for Building Community Safety & Well-Being Plans

Recently, on a webinar called Building Social Capital through Community Development, we asked the 160 participants what their ideal community looks and feels like. Here's what we heard; 

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