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Publications, Community Change
At the Tamarack Institute, we have been observing local change efforts across a spectrum of community issues and experiences...
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, Publications, 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...
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...
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, 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, Case Studies, Publications, Cities Reducing Poverty
What does it take to achieve meaningful and inclusive change? Saskatoon’s Poverty Reduction Partnership has adopted a unique...
Case Studies, Publications, Cities Reducing Poverty
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, 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...
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...
Community Engagement, Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Leena Sharma Seth
Hastings County and Prince Edward County (HPE) are located in southeastern Ontario, spanning the 401 corridor to the...
Case Studies, Community Change, Galen MacLusky, Community Development, Jessica Fisher
Communities across the world are used to having change thrust upon them. Governments, social services, and institutional...
Publications, ABCD, Community Innovation, Cities Deepening Community
This publication will give a brief introduction regarding the nature of Asset-Based Community Development and how it emerged....
Case Studies, Alison Homer, Cities Reducing Poverty, Housing Strategy
Housing affordability has become a critical issue across Canada, particularly in the Metro Vancouver region. The City of New...
Webinars and Videos, Paul Born, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Adam Vasey
Tamarack Institute - Vibrant Communities Canada's (VCC) Co-founder and Co-CEO, Paul Born and VCC's Adam Vasey, Director of...
Case Studies, Community Innovation, Housing, Housing Strategy, Galen MacLusky
How can social labs change social policy? As leaders on the ground it’s often clear in our minds how our systems lead to...
Case Studies, Neighbourhood Strategy, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community
Across Canada, there has been a decrease in voter-turnout at every level of government. This means that government policy and...
Articles, Community Innovation, Prototyping
To create change we need not have all the answers up front. Instead, the act of creating prototypes and testing them in...
Community Engagement, Collective Impact, Case Studies, Sylvia Cheuy
June 2018 marked the culmination of months of research, conversation and community discussions led by two collaborative...
Collaborative Leadership, Liz Weaver, Leadership, Community Change Festival
This paper explores the multiple faces of leadership and draws from Weaver's years of experience in both implementing and...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Liz Weaver, Community Change, Community Change Festival
One of the most pressing collaborative challenges is to fully engage the participants around the table in the process. Too...
Collective Impact, Tools, Liz Weaver
Collective Impact and collaborative efforts are focused on improving community conditions. Too often, we forget about the...
Tools, Community Innovation, Ideation
Have you ever had an idea explained to you that was not fully thought out? It happens often and can be frustrating for both...
Case Studies, Natasha Pei, Cities Reducing Poverty, New Brunswick, Poverty Reduction Strategy
New Brunswick is Canada’s largest Maritime province by area; boasts a population of 760,000; and is Canada’s only officially...
Webinars and Videos, Community Change, Reconciliation
Reconciliation Canada is a registered charity leading the way in engaging Canadians in dialogue and transformative experiences...
Collaborative Leadership, Publications, Liz Weaver, Collaboration, Community Change Festival
It starts with collaboration. This is the coming together of two or more organizations to work collectively, share authority,...
Webinars and Videos, Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky, Community Change Festival
Human-Centred Design and Design Thinking, popularized by innovation firms such as IDEO and institutions such as Stanford’s...
Webinars and Videos, ABCD, Community Development
Neighbourhoods are one of the foremost opportunities available to us to foster a sense of belonging. Neighbourhoods are home...
Publications, Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky, Community Change Festival
Are you a Design Thinker? A Social Innovator? A Behavioural Economist? Do you use Systems Thinking, Co-Design, or Labs to...
Case Studies, Heather Keam, Cities Deepening Community, Sheila Murray
All levels of government ask residents to create an emergency kit and a plan that ensures they can look after themselves for...
Articles, Publications, Paul Born, Cities Reducing Poverty, Cities Deepening Community
"In the next 25 years, Canada will accept at least 7.5 million immigrants. Visionary cities taking steps to reduce poverty and...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos
Tamarack's Liz Weaver facilitates a discussion with Paul Born, Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute, and Mark Cabaj, President of From...
Community Engagement, Publications, Sylvia Cheuy
Sylvia Cheuy has released her new paper about community engagement. Community change initiatives are often set against complex...
Case Studies, Poverty Reduction, Cities Reducing Poverty, Sustainability, Poverty Reduction Strategy
On November 22nd, 2017, Oxford County Council approved a Resolution that committed the County of Oxford to achieving Zero...
Articles, Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky
This article by Galen MacLusky discusses how taking the time to explore why you want to innovate can help you expose potential...
Webinars and Videos, Sylvia Cheuy, Leadership, Phyllis Alexander and Hasshan Batts, Oliver Reilly
Hasshan Batts and Phyllis Alexander engage in a conversation with Tamarack's Sylvia Cheuy. They are the driving force being...
Webinars and Videos, Cities Deepening Community
Internationally renowned writer, teacher and systems thinker Margaret Wheatley summons us to be leaders for this time of...
Collaborative Leadership, Tools, Community Innovation, Collaboration, Galen MacLusky
Groups often get overwhelmed by how many tasks they need to get done which leads to burnout and disconnected teams that are...
Case Studies, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Community Economic Development Strategy proactively and innovatively leverages the...
Articles, Publications, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
This article documents how Living SJ and the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership, two members of Vibrant Communities’...
Most collective impact and collaborative efforts benefit from establishing a core set of values and principles for working...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos
Tamarack's Liz Weaver discusses the Canadian Case Studies from the ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute report "When...
Collaborative Leadership, Webinars and Videos, Leadership
Community Change efforts require different leadership styles and approaches than other initiatives.
Community Innovation, Community Change, Galen MacLusky
What makes Community Innovation different from other forms of Social Innovation is the focus on community – placing community...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos
Tamarack's Galen MacLusky discusses the ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute report "When Collective Impact Has an Impact",...
Evaluating Community Impact, Mark Cabaj, Collaboration, Strategy
Social innovators tackling complex social, economic and environmental challenges – particularly those working with diverse...
Case Studies, Community Change, Cities Deepening Community
Since the 1990’s, the City of Kamloops has been an advocate for community accessibility. Over the last twenty years, many...
Tools, Community Innovation, Galen MacLusky
Have you ever been asked to come up with new ideas to solve an old problem, or been stuck on how to get a group to approach a...
Webinars and Videos, communications
Lindsay Sage, co-founder of sagecomm, discusses the development of compelling issue positions and the key considerations,...
Evaluating Community Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation, Shared Measurement
In transformative community change efforts, collaborative tables often face challenges with outlining the measures that will...
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, communications
This webinar session lays the foundation for winning communication strategies for community causes and issues.
Community Engagement, Webinars and Videos, Inclusion
The wisdom and perspectives of community members are essential in finding effective solutions to the community's most complex...
Collective Impact, Webinars and Videos, Evaluation
The development of evaluation plans often seem tedious and routine. They are typically written as part of funding applications...
Case Studies, Alison Homer, Cities Reducing Poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Calgary’s Financial Empowerment Collaborative plays an important role in the community-driven Enough for All poverty reduction...
Collective Impact, Collaborative Leadership
This Case Study focuses on combined economic and social developments championed by the Rider Poole Foundation in the Greater...
The Cover Story is an exercise that can be used for multiple purposes. The object of the game is to act as journalists whose...
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