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Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, Loneliness, Isolation
After months of social distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are facing what some are calling a “loneliness...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, Loneliness, Isolation
After months of social distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are facing what some are calling a “loneliness...
Community Building, Neighbourhood Strategy, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community
Traditional models of housing services are that they are responsible for social housing programs and property management of...
The Arts bring life to our communities. They spark joy. They teach. It connects. They ask us to see things differently. But so...
Co-Design is a collaborative approach that actively involves a diverse stakeholder group (e.g. staff, partners, citizens,...
Collective Impact, Cities Reducing Poverty
Montreal’s Collective Impact Project (CIP), which launched in 2015, is an innovative and inspiring example of Collective...
Publications, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Community Change, COVID-19
Founded in 2002, Cities Reducing Poverty (CRP) has grown to support more than 330 municipalities represented by 80 regional...
Webinars and Videos, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Indigenous
The pandemic has underscored many of the disparities and inequities in our country, including the disproportionate impact of...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Pamela Teitelbaum
What lessons can we derive from a multi-year research and evaluation process focused on understanding the impact of local...
Case Studies, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Data
Data is a powerful tool for community change efforts. It is the foundation for understanding, tackling, and marking progress...
Webinars and Videos, Community Building, Resiliency, Community Change, Cities Deepening Community, Racial Equity
During the novel pandemic, many communities have demonstrated the leadership capacity to stay resilient using/improving their...
Collective Impact, Pamela Teitelbaum
In order to gather evidence about 'how' impact is happening, not just 'what' and 'why' it’s happening, evaluators are ...
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools
The Tool for Assessing the Effects of Local Intersectoral Action is an interactive online tool. It generates information for...
There has been a marked increase in the demand for Community-Led approaches to change as community organizations and some...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Social Justice, Elle Richards
The 2020 pandemic has exacerbated communities’ pre-existing challenges across the country, and it is anticipated that these...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Climate Change
In this webinar, members of Tamarack's Board of Directors - Lori Hewson, Mary Pickering, and Ana Gonzalez Guerrero - discuss...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Neighbourhood Strategy, Cities Deepening Community
Did you know that during an emergency your neighbours will likely be your first responders? When COVID-19 forced communities...
Webinars and Videos, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty
Kerry Nolan and Kate Gunn have been involved in leading anti poverty work initiatives in Peel Region, Whitehorse and Edmonton....
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation
In this webinar, members of Tamarack's Board of Directors, Shauna Sylvester, Director of Simon Fraser University’s Wosk Centre...
Collective Impact, Sylvia Cheuy
Since John Kania and Mark Kramer’s article was published in 2011, understanding of Collective Impact (CI) has evolved beyond...
Youth, Community Change, Guides, Communities Building Youth Futures, Youth Engagement
We co-developed this guide with youth leaders and representatives from youth-serving organizations to shine a light on the...
Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Communities Building Youth Futures, Youth Engagement
How can we ensure that the work we do is youth-centered and reflective of youth voice? Meaningfully engaging youth often...
Publications, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Community Change, COVID-19
The Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty 2020 Impact Report is our first attempt at capturing and communicating...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Systems Change, Community Change
In this webinar, John Kania and Liz Weaver discuss the challenges we face while working for transformational change and impact.
Tools, Youth, Community Change, Guides, Communities Building Youth Futures, Youth Engagement
How can you meaningfully engage youth in community change? How can we design a strategy to ensure youth leadership and youth...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Community Change
How do we ensure evaluation is inclusive, equitable, and community-driven? What criteria do we use? How do we help others use...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Social Justice, COVID-19, Recovery
The COVID-19 crisis has been a wake up call for governments and civil society. The disproportionate impacts of the pandemic to...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Leadership, Community Change
Listen as Bill Fulton and Jodi Hardin from The Civic Canopy in Denver, Colorado share their reflections on the leadership...
Collaborative Leadership, Liz Weaver, Leadership, COVID-19, Recovery
Given the scale of disruptive forces unleashed by the global pandemic, the social movements which inspired action to respond...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Systems Change, Community Change, Pamela Teitelbaum
In this webinar, Pamela Teitelbaum, our Director of Evaluating Impact will hosted Tatiana Fraser and Rachel Sinha from Systems...
Articles, Publications, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community, Guides, COVID-19, Recovery
Organizations and groups across the globe are trying to find the right way to move into the recovery phase of the pandemic....
Webinars and Videos, Community Building, Community Change, Cities Deepening Community
As we look at community recovery planning across Canada, many organizations are asking what their role is in deepening...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Leadership, Community Change
In this webinar, Diana Renner shares her thoughts about being at the threshold of change and ambiguity. She will help us shift...
Webinars and Videos, Communities Building Youth Futures, Youth Engagement
Engagement is critical for all programs, services, and initiatives that impact youth. Both youth and organizations that serve...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Business, Basic Income
Calls for Basic Income have been gaining ground on both sides of the political spectrum over the last several months due to...
Webinars and Videos, Sylvia Cheuy, Community Change
Whether the meeting you are hosting is virtual or face-to-face, being intentional about how you design and facilitate it can...
Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Sylvia Cheuy, Community Change
Navigating disruption and change is challenging. During times of chaos and dramatic change, we find it difficult to envision...
Webinars and Videos, Community Building, Cities Deepening Community, COVID-19, Recovery
Communities across the globe are starting to move from crisis to recovery in response to COVID-19. But how might we think...
Webinars and Videos, Youth, Community Change, Working Remotely, Communities Building Youth Futures
In March 2020, the youth unemployment rate in Canada increased to 16.8%, the highest it has ever been. With fewer physical job...
Articles, Publications, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
Research from around the world is clear about the need to collaborate and build partnerships to make sustainable change in our...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Sylvia Cheuy, Community Change, Circle
In this time of uncertainty and great upheaval there is a growing desire to do things differently. We are hungry for new...
Publications, Tools, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
During the pandemic organizations are having to rethink how they implement programs and activities. Are face to face meetings,...
Collective Impact, Articles, Sylvia Cheuy
A common topic of interest in the implementation of Collective Impact (CI) is the Backbone infrastructure and how it relates...
Collective Impact, Articles, Sylvia Cheuy
For leaders who are considering whether or not to start – or join – a Collective Impact initiative, this article explores key...
Publications, Community Change
At the Tamarack Institute, we have been observing local change efforts across a spectrum of community issues and experiences...
Community Engagement, Lisa Attygalle, Leadership
There has been a marked increase in demand for ‘Community-Led’ approaches to change across the country. Black Lives Matter,...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Lisa Attygalle, Community Change
Listen as Lisa Attygalle joins with Rich Harwood—President and Founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation—to...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, COVID-19
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty (VC–CRP) members across Canada have responded to...
Articles, Publications, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
We find ourselves in a unique time, searching for answers to a problem whose scope is beyond anything we have ever encountered...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Basic Income, Women
Gender equality is still far from being realized. In terms of economic parity, the World Economic Forum ranked women and girls...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Community Change, Pamela Teitelbaum
Outcome Mapping is an approach to evaluative thinking and practice which embeds a particular way of thinking about development...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Elle Richards
Since 2015, 36,000 more central Iowans are now financially self-sufficient.Central Iowa has achieved success in poverty...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, food security, transportation
When COVID-19 restrictions were announced in New Brunswick, communities were ready to respond quickly to the needs of...
Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Reconciliation, Pamela Teitelbaum, Racial Equity
What does it look like to create a culture of equity and reconciliation in practice? How do we enable and support change at...
Are you are looking to build connection and capacity across a diverse team in a virtual environment? Developing a Virtual...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Collaboration, Community Change
Listen as Tom Klaus and Liz Weaver engage in a conversation about the elements of tenacity, humility and how these play out...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Youth, Basic Income
Young people are facing a range of systemic issues that will significantly impact their futures as they enter the job market,...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Applied Theatre
Have you ever considered using theatre as a tool for community change? Around the world, theatre is being picked up as an...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Publications
A Community Plan is a comprehensive, long-term planning process designed to set a broad vision and strategic direction for an...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Leadership, Systems Change, Community Change
Join Dr. Glenda Eoyang and Liz Weaver as they explore the following questions in an animated conversation about the future....
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools
Cellphilming is a participatory video technique for creating learning experiences, collecting data and sharing stories in your...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Publications, Neighbourhood Strategy, Cities Deepening Community
“The heart and essence of every city and community are its neighbourhoods.” This belief is central to London, Ontario’s...
Collaborative Leadership, Tools
The Landscape Diagram, developed by Human Systems Dynamics Institute, is a useful tool to help community changemakers see,...
Through the lens of Collective Impact, this paper examines three important stages for leaders to consider when navigating our...
Publications, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Community Change, COVID-19
Through the COVID-19 crisis, Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty (VC–CRP) has responded to meet urgent community...
Articles, Community Building, Community Change, Justin Williams, COVID-19
The COVID-19 Pandemic makes it difficult to think about the future, while also making it crucial that changemakers plan for...
Webinars and Videos, Systems Change, Community Change
Cameron Norman and Liz Weaver explore the role of the individual changemakers in systems change. Like the butterfly effect,...
Webinars and Videos, Community Building, Cities Deepening Community, COVID-19
Community is the lifeblood of every place. Positive relationships between neighbours boosts the wellbeing of everyone in the...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Community Change
Moira Were and Liz Weaver discuss how to step into our convictions with courage. Activism is lived daily through small and...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos, Community Building, Cities Deepening Community
The Collective Impact model provides a structure for multiple organizations to forge a common agenda for solving a complex and...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos
This webinar provides guidance, practical tips and tools for collaborative groups to take their community engagements online.
...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Virtual Engagement
In this webinar, Liz Weaver and Lisa Attygalle share how to design and support the development of a virtual community of...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, COVID-19
While the impact of COVID-19 has been swift and intense, Revelstoke, BC has mobilized its response to the pandemic in an...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, COVID-19
How can we heal the system in a time of intense challenge? It starts with healing yourself.
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Community Change
Listen as Louise, Sophie and Liz engage in a conversation about the changing role and impact of philanthropy, and explore how...
Webinars and Videos, Paul Born, Cities Reducing Poverty, COVID-19
In the past year, Canada has made some incredible strides to reduce poverty, even reaching the lowest level of poverty in its...
Do you have a new idea or process that you would like to test? The Virtual Peer Input Process is a quick and structured way to...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Publications
What becomes possible when the leadership and wisdom of an entire community intentionally works together to ensure the best...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Basic Income
In March 2020, McMaster University published a study on the results of Ontario's Basic Income Pilot project which was...
As we navigate the rapidly changing world around us let’s catch a breath, and take time to look at how we can apply what we’ve...
Articles, Publications, Community Building, Community Development
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the opportunity to learn, adapt and innovate from the symptoms that created the...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos
Join Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver as they review the evolution of Collective Impact 3.0, and discuss the role of Collective...
Webinars and Videos, Remote Work, Working Remotely
Join, Paul, Liz and members of the Tamarack team as they reflect on working remotely and how this approach can work...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos
There is a growing interest and desire for organizations to engage with community members on an ongoing basis, to build...
Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community
We often think that community development in intangible, or uncountable, but, there are certain aspects of community work that...
Tools, Remote Work, Working Remotely
We're sharing our own guide for working remotely to support the organizations and workers that are transitioning to remote...
Publications, Tools, Cities Reducing Poverty, Guides, Workforce Development
Workforce Development is about economic prosperity, but what makes this approach unique is that it focuses on people rather...
Webinars and Videos, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community
In this webinar, Lori Sokoluk shared stories on how she has aligned the Asset-Based Community Development approach with the...
Publications, Tools, Cities Reducing Poverty, Shared Measurement, Guides
How do you track and report on the success of your collaborative? How do you establish whether your initiative is working,...
Collective Impact, Cities Reducing Poverty
What does it take to achieve meaningful and inclusive change? Saskatoon’s Poverty Reduction Partnership has adopted a unique...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Shared Measurement
The thought of shared measurement can be intimidating. In fact, it’s been compared to “traditional measurement on steroids”...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Paul Born
How do you engage your community to get input on a particular issue? Last year, the Vancouver Foundation received responses...
This planning canvas will help you work through the main considerations when planning to engage any segment of your community.
The process of creating principles for engagement allows you to thoughtfully consider the unique needs of and relationship you...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Social Innovation, Collaboration
A personal leadership journey often takes several expected and unexpected twists and turns. It calls for the leader to be...
Publications, Tools, Cities Reducing Poverty, Guides
This guide outlines a proven, appreciative inquiry approach that Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty has developed...
Webinars and Videos, Community Development, Cities Deepening Community
What do you do once you have mapped out the assets in your community? How can you engage residents to share their gifts and...
Evaluating Community Impact, Publications, Evaluation, Pamela Teitelbaum
Over time reframing evaluation in our work to be more participatory and collaborative leads to higher levels of learning,...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, social procurement
The community wealth building field includes a broad range of models and innovations. Demonstrating how social procurement, as...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Publications, Community Innovation
Leaders in the towns of Kingsville and Leamington, Ontario are spearheading an innovative cross-community initiative for...
Publications, Tools, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
This compilation of learnings written by John McKnight are ideas and thoughts that will help you understand the Asset-Based...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Collaboration, Racial Equity
Impactful collaboration is built on the frame of authentic partnerships. Increasingly, complex community challenges require...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Social Innovation, Collaboration, Galen MacLusky
A Collaborative Innovation is a process model and an integrated set of concrete tools to effectively lead powerful change with...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Publications, Cities Deepening Community
Neighbourhood grants have been popping up across the country. These locally-based, resident-driven grants pave the way for...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Lived Experience
In this webinar, Cheryl Whiskeyjack, from the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society, discussed lessons from their engagement...
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky
In this series of webinars you'll learn what community innovation is, how it has changed the way we look at community change...
Collective Impact, Tools, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Guides
Collective Impact supports communities to address complex social issues and create lasting solutions to social problems on a...
Evaluating Community Impact, Articles, Publications, Evaluation, Cities Reducing Poverty
Tracking, counting, and reporting the number of hours spent on a program or project? It may be interesting data, but it’s...
Community Engagement, Publications, Lisa Attygalle
Fear is one of the biggest barriers that prevents changemakers from applying authentic community engagement practices. In this...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Community Change, Racial Equity
In this webinar, Liz Weaver, Veronica Borgonovi, and Hayling Price discuss how community changemakers can advance racial...
Community Engagement, Publications, Tools, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
What is a neighbourhood’s greatest asset? The people who live there! Residents have the most knowledge about the neighbourhood...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Publications, ABCD, Rural, Cities Deepening Community
In the past, rural communities across Canada depended on settlers to build the roads, infrastructure, schools and...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Leadership
In this webinar, Jay Robb and Liz Weaver discuss what business books, and their own experience, have to say about community...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Cities Deepening Community
What change is your community striving for? Are you using a Collective Impact approach to get there? If so, it’s likely that...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, Isolation
The pressures of life today and the tools designed to help us efficiently handle our complex world are taking us out of...
Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky
Interested in supporting innovation in your community? This paper highlights some of the important enabling conditions for...
Webinars and Videos, Paul Born, Liz Weaver, Community Change
In this webinar, Paul Born and Liz Weaver, Co-CEOs at Tamarack, shared a thoughtful discussion on some community change trends...
Publications, Tools, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
This tool provides a compilation of Cities Reducing Poverty members’ anticipated vs. actual timeframes for developing their...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Systems Change, Pamela Teitelbaum
Systems change practice offers new approaches to leadership and collaboration that help leaders address complexity in new...
Case Studies, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Alberta has experienced one of the most dramatic reductions in poverty on record. Over two years, poverty was reduced for more...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Youth
Engaging underrepresented youth can be a challenge to youth serving organizations working across different programs in the...
Case Studies, Emergency Preparedness, Cities Deepening Community
Canadian communities across the country are facing the devastating consequences of increasingly severe weather such as extreme...
ABCD, Community Development, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
“Asset Based Community Development” or ABCD looks for, and starts from people’s gifts and strengths (assets). These assets...
Collective Impact, Sylvia Cheuy, Community Change
Many traditional approaches for addressing a complex issue like poverty, health & climate action have, until recently,...
Collective Impact, Publications, Tools, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Guides
A commonly expressed challenge within the Cities Reducing Poverty learning community is how to get to a common agenda for...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Last August, Canada released its first-ever poverty reduction strategy with an official poverty line and a goal to reduce...
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Community Change, Community Change Festival
Artificial intelligence, blockchain, the ownership of data, and agile leadership are just four of the many trends impacting...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Community Change Festival
Can online meetings be as engaging and productive as face-to-face meetings? Maggie Chumbley believes the answer is: absolutely...
Collective Impact, Case Studies
Multisolving is a strategic approach to finding solutions to the interconnected problems facing the climate and human society...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Community Change Festival
Community Changemakers are called upon to manage from a middle space. That place where the future is uncertain, but the...
Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Membership, Directory
Vibrant Communities Canada provides support to a network of 80 local poverty reduction roundtables, led by collaborative...
Neighbourhood Strategy, Cities Deepening Community, Neighbourhoods, Guides
Every city builds neighbourhoods with sidewalks, roads, houses, parks and arenas. Municipalities across Canada are realizing...
Emergency Preparedness, Cities Deepening Community, Guides
This annotated bibliography is a list of tools, articles, case studies and books compiled to assist you in your Emergency...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Community Change, Community Change Festival
Many social innovators and leading edge evaluators are embracing the ideas and practice of Principles-Focused Evaluation...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Community Change Festival
Most of us recognize the need for and importance of engaging the communities we serve. Working to uphold the slogan, “nothing...
A Citizens’ Jury is an innovative means of involving everyday people in decision-making about complex problems, which are...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Reducing Poverty
In just two years, 24,813 central Iowans have become financially self-sufficient in a growing community where 1 in 4...
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Community Change, Community Change Festival
As a community changemaker, have you ever stopped to wonder where the power lies in your project? What are you trying to...
Community Engagement, Tools, Evaluation
Capturing and sharing your progress is key to building and sustaining momentum. Intentionally capturing results will help you...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Cities Reducing Poverty has identified that successful poverty reduction efforts progress through four key phases and share...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
The Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) advises the implementation and evaluation of Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, ...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, neighbours
Loneliness and polarization are two growing threats to our society. Although these problems are different from one another,...
Neighbourhood Strategy, Cities Deepening Community
Vibrant Communities, Cities Deepening Community (CDC) is a network of people who are partnering with Tamarack Institute to...
Webinars and Videos, ABCD, Cities Deepening Community
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) emphasizes strengths, connections, citizen leadership and recognizes that individual...
Case Studies, ABCD, Neighbourhoods
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is a theory that looks at the gifts and assets of people that exist within a...
Case Studies, Neighbourhood Strategy, Evaluation, Cities Deepening Community
The City of Hamilton celebrated their Neighbourhood Action Strategy’s first seven years by doing an in-depth evaluation of the...
Membership, Brochure, Cities Deepening Community
Vibrant Communities – Cities Deepening Community has been working with communities and organizations across Canada and the...
Webinars and Videos, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty
Across the country, over a million families struggle to make ends meet despite working one, two or sometimes even three jobs...
Webinars and Videos, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty
Across the country, over a million families struggle to make ends meet despite working one, two or sometimes even three jobs...
Community Innovation, Community Change, Galen MacLusky
Why is it that despite our best efforts, issues like poverty, homelessness, crime, and isolation persist in our communities?...
Case Studies, Books, Publications, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
It is well established in the world of social change that lasting solutions require systems change. This case study describes...
Tools, Evaluation, Community Innovation
How can we effectively solicit feedback on new ideas and programs? The Rose, Bud, Thorn framework is a great way to...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Community Innovation
How will you evaluate efforts to create systems change? The right approach depends on your situation, the type of change, and...
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools, Evaluation, Community Innovation
How can you evaluate a systems change initiative? The diversity of methods and approaches available can be overwhelming, but...
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools, Evaluation
One of the central challenges of any evaluation is to get a strong grasp of what the primary user of the assessment wants to...
Cities Deepening Community, neighbours, Neighbourhoods
Building strong communities is not easy. In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam documents the decline of community life in North...
As an individual or organizational changemaker, we are often better at deploying program-based or focused strategies to solve...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos
Community change work is more effective, empathetic, and genuine when local community members and people with lived experience...
Case Studies, Neighbourhood Strategy, Cities Deepening Community
The changing dynamics of neighbourhoods requires a new way of thinking and planning to support neighbourhood development. The...
ABCD, Cities Deepening Community, Neighbourhoods
There is a movement across Canada to deepen community. Many neighbourhoods are hosting block parties, soup nights and sharing...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos
The knowledge, skills and leadership of citizens is a rich resource that too often is untapped in community change efforts....
Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the...
Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the...
Webinars and Videos, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty
Across the country, over a million families struggle to make ends meet despite working one, two or sometimes even three jobs...
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools, Evaluation
This article features Mark Cabaj reviewing expert Ricardo Wilson-Grau’s book, Outcome Harvesting: Principles, Steps, and...
Evaluating Community Impact, Tools, Evaluation
This article features Mark Cabaj reviewing expert Jerry Z Muller's book "The Tyranny of Metrics" which concerns the practice...
Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos
The ability for local leaders from diverse sectors to work together to address their shared challenges and to realize a shared...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
On September 18, 2018, the Peel Poverty Reduction Committee launched their second poverty reduction strategy and became the...
Articles, Publications, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Canada’s first national poverty reduction strategy, “Opportunity for All” is a welcomed move forward for those working to...
Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex community dilemmas and is most effective when trying to move the...
Leadership, governance, and backbone supports are three of the most important elements of a Collective Impact initiative....
Community Engagement, Tools, Megan Wanless
This tool offers a simple and fun exercise that can help break down barriers between group members and provide a space and...
Collective Impact initiatives generally follow five phases that each present unique challenges. The papers, tools and...
A data walk is a powerful process for engaging diverse stakeholders in a shared sense-making process around data. Created by...
Evaluating Community Impact, Mark Cabaj
Social innovators, evaluators, and community changemakers are increasingly focused on changing complex systems, but often...
Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Cities Deepening Community
In this webinar, Jessie Sutherland touched on the key components to success in resident-led community change initiatives,...
Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Community Change
Almost anyone who is interested in making progress on tough economic, social and environmental issues is committed to changing...
Do you need a quick warmup to help change the mood in a meeting? The Collective Lines warmup activity lets participants play...
Webinars and Videos, Community Change
In this webinar, Megan Courtney and Liz Weaver reflect on 25 years of collective wisdom in community change from Canada to New...
Evaluating Community Impact, Articles, Evaluation, Mark Cabaj, Social Innovation
As changemakers, we are not always clear on what scaling means nor how efforts to scale should be properly evaluated, and...
Tools, Community Innovation, Prototyping
Prototyping and testing can help you build excitement and buy-in for a new service, get feedback to help you iterate and...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community, neighbours
In this webinar, Jonathan Massimi introduced the Asset-Based Community Development approache and also the Asset-Based...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Natasha Pei, Cities Reducing Poverty
Even the best laid plans often go awry. Poverty is messy and complex and the process of finding solutions to poverty will be...
Case Studies, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community
There are several organizations and municipalities are focusing their efforts on neighbourhoods. But how do they know their...
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Community Change
This webinar focused on the experience of The Winnipeg Boldness Project, a research and development project working alongside...
Publications, Tools, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy, Guides
This collection of poverty reduction strategies provides a glimpse into the work of eight Cities Reducing Poverty (CRP)...
Publications, Cities Deepening Community
In the community-building world, a significant number of local initiatives fail because the participants are not clear about...
This year both the Tamarack Institute (Canada) and Inspiring Communities (Aotearoa New Zealand) achieve significant...
Webinars and Videos, Affordable Housing, Housing Strategy
In this webinar, Tristan Johnson, Planning Analyst at the City of New Westminster discussed the City’s approach to overcoming...
Webinars and Videos, Paul Born, Cities Deepening Community, neighbours
In this webinar, Peter Block explored the concept of a neighbourly economy including discussion on how to build ‘Abundant...
Evaluating Community Impact, Articles, Evaluation, Mark Cabaj, Policy
Despite the central role of policy change in social change, innovators and evaluators often struggle to be clear about what...
Community Engagement, Tools, Sylvia Cheuy
The Peer Input Process is a relatively quick and structured way to get input and insight from peers into a current challenge...
Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy, Adam Vasey
Tamarack Institute’s Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty (VC – CRP), since arriving on the national scene in 2002,...
Collective Impact, Case Studies, Adam Vasey
Windsor-Essex County (Windsor-Essex), the southernmost region in Canada, consists of nine municipalities: Amherstburg, Essex,...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Mark Cabaj, Systems Change
In this webinar, Meg Hargreaves and Mark Cabaj explore the ideas and steps required to properly evaluate ‘system changes’ that...
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