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WEBINAR | Talking to your Community about Collective Impact - Making it Real

As a leader in your community’s collective impact initiative, you will likely be asked to talk about the project and its approach...

WEBINAR | Talking to your Community about Collective Impact - Overview

As a leader in your community’s collective impact initiative, you will likely be asked to talk about the project and its approach...

WEBINAR | Talking to your Community about Collective Impact - Overview

As a leader in your community’s collective impact initiative, you will likely be asked to talk about the project and its approach...

REPORT | Communities Ending Poverty Summit for Strength Learnings

In the face of unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, communities have shown remarkable capacity for...

MEMBERSHIP | Community Climate Transitions

Want to be a part of this exciting movement? Share knowledge and resources with your peers? Access capacity-building resources,...

WEBINAR | Mental Health and Poverty: A Systems Change Approach

This webinar recording features a conversation with Registered Clinical Counsellor Jennifer Wright, who illustrates how community...

WEBINAR | Kim Samuel on Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation

This webinar recording features a conversation between our Director of Deepening Community, Heather Keam, and Kim Samuel, the...

WEBINAR | Transforming Systems for Continued Poverty Reduction Success

This webinar recording features a conversation with Scott MacAfee, Chair of the National Advisory Council on Poverty.

WEBINAR | Breakthrough Community Change: Lessons for Changemakers

Paul Born has spent more than twenty years helping communities across Canada, the United States and around the world to transform...

WEBINAR | Bankability / Payday Lending

This event took place in English.

Lacking access to safe and affordable credit from mainstream financial institutions, many...

WEBINAR | Integrating the SDGs into Your Municipality

This event took place in English. It was co-hosted by SDSN Canada and Tamarack Institute.

In the midst of COVID recovery, many...

WEBINAR | Centring Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Reconciliation in Organizations and in Community-Wide Change

This event took place in English.

This webinar recording features a conversation with Ana Gonzalez Guerrero (she/her), Rochelle...

WEBINAR | Young Climate Voices on the Global Stage: Amplifying Local Knowledge

This event took place in English with simultaneous interpretation in French. Click here to access the French recording.

This...

GUIDE | Community Climate Start-Up - Thinking Like an Entrepreneur

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

Climate work is community work and taking...

Reflecting Together: Results and Implications of our 2022 Members Survey

In July and August 2022, midway through the second year of Tamarack 2030 plan, you – Tamarack’s learners – participated in a...

WEBINAR | Getting Equity on the Political Agenda: Strategies at the Local Level

This webinar recording featured a conversation about what local roundtables and equity-seeking groups are doing to get their...

WEBINAR | Transformative Change? It Depends on Your Ambition

This webinar recording features a conversation with Mark Cabaj, Keren Perla and Liz Weaver about ambition and transformative...

WEBINAR | Evaluating the Impact of Citizens Sharing Their Gifts – Lessons Learned from Abundant Communities Edmonton

This webinar recording features a conversation between our consulting Director of Evaluating Impact, Jean-Marie Chapeau, and ...

ARTICLE | Climate and the Sustainable Development Goals | Part 2 | Transforming Energy, Jobs & Industry

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

The climate crisis is a complex,...

ARTICLE | Climate and the Sustainable Development Goals | Part 1 | Transforming People & Places

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

The climate crisis is a complex,...

TOOL | Monitoring Collaboration

This tool is designed to help you monitor and assess the quality of collaboration that occurs amongst a group.

WEBINAR | Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities

This webinar recording features a conversation with Jayne Engle and Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, co-editors of the book Sacred Civics:...

WEBINAR | Civil Society, Power & Creating Bolder, Braver Social Change

This webinar recording explores what the chief executive and a project lead at the UK-based Sheila McKechnie Foundation...

CASE STUDY | District of Tofino Provides Innovative Solution to Local Child Care Shortage

Faced with a critical shortage of child care, the District of Tofino, British Columbia, broke new ground by offering direct...

WEBINAR | Youth Leading on Issues that Matter to Them: Climate, Poverty and Affordability

This webinar took place in English with simultaneous French interpretation. Click here to access the French version.

In this...

WEBINAR | Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices

In this webinar, the speakers worked together to develop collective knowledge and awareness around having a healthy relationship...

WEBINAR | How to End a Slow-Rolling Crisis | Lessons from the Northside, Cape Breton

There are times when a crisis comes with force and requires immediate action and leadership. A recent example of a crisis...

WEBINAR | Revolutionizing Sustainability, Climate and Equity Planning: Enabling Municipalities to Respond to Complexity by Transforming Strategic Management Practices

In this webinar recording, you will learn about the City of Kitchener’s experience adopting the Enterprise Evolution program and...

ARTICLE | Civil Society & Power: Creating Bolder, Braver Social Change

Change itself is constantly changing. Where it occurs, who’s involved, what blocks it and what boosts it. At the Sheila McKechnie...

REPORT | Community Climate Transitions 1-Year Impact Report (2021-2022)

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

As Community Climate Transitions enters its...

ARTICLE | Brock University Students' Blogs

These three blogs were written by Brock University Students studying Community Recreation

ARTICLE | About Mentorship

This blog post is written by Phillip Mock, the Project Coordinator of CBYF Chatham-Kent

WEBINAR | Decent Work and the Labour Crunch: Attracting and Retaining Employees

This webinar recording features business owner Devinder Chaudhary, who spoke about how adopting a Living Wage model and decent...

WEBINAR | Multisolving: A Promising Strategy toward Just and Equitable Futures

This webinar recording features a conversation with Elizabeth Sawin, founder and director of the Multisolving Institute.

Listen...

BOOK | 10 - A Guide for Deepening Community

With the growing sense of disconnect and social isolation happening in communities across Canada and the lack of civic...

WEBINAR | People, Planning and Process – Building Collaborative Leaders

In September 2020, the Danville Regional Foundation launched Collaboration Lab, a 10-session collaborative leadership development...

WEBINAR | Building Equity and Justice in a Digital World

The Tech that Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World is a newly released...

ARTICLE | The Future of Work: A Literature Review

This resource is also available in French.  Please click here for the French version.

This article by Megan Nimigon explores the...

CASE STUDY | Building a Heart-Centered Movement in Cooksville

This case study by Dan Ritchie, Hardy Steinke, Nicole Bonder and Christine Bennett explores the ABCD approach of Heart Comonos in...

ARTICLE | Transforming Leadership in an Age of Disruption

The last two years have challenged leaders to think, work and act differently.

WEBINAR | Creating Safety Through Connection – The Function(s) of a Safe Community

This webinar recording features a fireside chat about the role that everyday citizens can play in promoting safety in their...

CASE STUDY | Windsor-Essex’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan: An Engaged Community

In 2018, the Government of Ontario mandated every Ontario municipality to create a multisector Community Safety and Well-Being...

WEBINAR | Centering Lived Experience Through Participatory Grantmaking

As part of a Participatory Grantmaking pilot project in Peel launched in 2021, funded by the WES Mariam Assefa Fund, members of...

WEBINAR | Income Security, Climate Change and Community Resilience

This webinar recording features a conversation with some of the key actors behind The Green Resilience Project and their work in...

WEBINAR | A Deep Dive into “The Art of Neighboring”

This webinar recording features a fireside chat with Deanna Butz from Stony Plain and author Dave Runyon as they talk about the...

ARTICLE | 20 Years of Impact: Looking Back and Leading Forward

Twenty years is a significant timespan in the life of an organization. Over the years, communities across Canada, the US and...

WEBINAR | Advancing Change in Disruptive Times

This conversation with Sonja Miokovic and Sylvia Cheuy focused on how community changemakers can strengthen their practice and...

WEBINAR | Convening, Coordinating and Collaborating for Socio-ecological Transitions: The Story of Collectivités ZéN

This webinar took place in French, with simultaneous English interpretation. Click here to access the French recording.

ARTICLE | Connecting Community, the Strategic Way!

In this article, Heather Keam, Associate Director of Cities Deepening Community, introduces what a neighbourhood strategy is, its...

ARTICLE | A Field Review of the Five Interconnected Practice Areas

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

This article by Tamarack's Learning Centre...

CASE STUDY | Supporting Systems Changes Through a Lens of Convening & Connecting: How a Jewish Federation’s Disability Inclusion Initiative Nudged an Ecosystem in Montreal and Beyond

In this article, Carly Goodman of Federation CJA (FCJA) shares the story of how FCJAs Inclusion Initiative helped to fill a...

WEBINAR | Building Digital Resilience in the Nonprofit Sector

This conversation featured Victor Beausoleil, Amy Ward, Chantal Edwards, Narinder Dhami and Liz Weaver in an engaging...

ARTICLE | The intersection of housing affordability and climate action

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

This article by Cayo Costa and Jorge Garza...

CASE STUDY | Convening, connecting and collaborating for socio-ecological transitions: The story of Collectivités ZéN

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

This case study profiles the work of...

WEBINAR | A Conversation about Leadership and Community Impact

This conversation featured Danya Pastuszek and Liz Weaver in a lively conversation about leadership journeys, community impact...

WEBINAR | Field Catalysts | A Missing Contribution for High-Impact Community Change?

In this webinar, Sylvia Cheuy, Liz Weaver and Mark Cabaj explored the four integrated roles of the Field Catalyst and the...

CASE STUDY | City of Vancouver Reduced Fare Transit Pilot – Benefits Beyond Cost

This case study by Austin Lui and Jill Zacharias unpacks how the City of Vancouver’s Reduced Fare Transit Pilot offers...

WEBINAR | Thinking Like a System and Leading with Humility

In this webinar, Mayor Lisa Helps of Victoria, BC, sits down with Margaret Wheatley for a fireside chat about systems thinking...

WEBINAR | The Essential Mindset and Skillsets of Backbone Leaders

In this webinar, Liz Weaver invites Chris Thompson for a lively discussion about the essential mindset and skillsets of backbone...

WEBINAR | A Place at the Table – How People with Disabilities are Shaping Community

Caregiving in society is something that community does best. It is the area in which the “experts” are those who empathize,...

PROJECT | Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS)

This resource is an example of Neighborhood Health Status Improvement from theGreater Rochester Health Foundation.

PROJECT | Strengthening Our Area Residents (SOAR)

This resource is an example of Neighborhood Health Status Improvement from the Greater Rochester Health Foundation.

It profiles...

WEBINAR | Academic Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals

This event was cohosted by the Tamarack Institute and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Canada.

This public...

WEBINAR | Celebrating the Evolution and Future of Collective Impact

In this webinar, Sylvia Cheuy invites Jennifer Splansky Juster and Junious Williams to explore the implications of Collective...

WEBINAR | Building Equitable Economies for Immigrants and Refugees in Peel Funding Opportunity Information Session

This session introduced attendees to the People’s Panel, our participatory process, and provided information on our application...

WEBINAR | Design: Application and Lessons Learned

In this webinar, Cameron Norman and Liz Weaver review the Design Helix to set the stage for an example of a case study on...

Climate Transitions Cohort: Key Readings and Resources

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

This list has been compiled by the Community...

WEBINAR | Youth well-being and resilience in pandemic times

Youth resilience and well-being are vital to the ability to reach one’s full potential and prevent poverty.

Join us to better...

ARTICLE | Communities Ending Poverty: 2021 Progress & COVID-19 Update

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, the Tamarack Institute had been celebrating Canada...

WEBINAR | Design Production and Solutions

In this webinar, Cameron Norman and Liz Weaver explore the second part of the design helix. We share practical tools for each of...

WEBINAR | Halton Climate Collective: A whole-community climate response through collective action

The Halton Climate Collective is a group of organizations from across sectors (local and regional municipalities, an...

WEBINAR | Place-based Social Innovation Through Living Labs

Today, communities are facing an array of complex social and environmental challenges. The programs we have created to address...

CASE STUDY | Alternative Economic Models Are Helping Cities Thrive: How the ‘Doughnut’ Is Transforming Nanaimo, Victoria and Cities Around the World

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WEBINAR | Imagination and Design

In this webinar, we will dive into the first half of the design helix. The Design Helix is an emerging approach to support the...

WEBINAR | Theory of Change to Theory of Influence – Lessons Learned from Chicago’s New Communities Program

The New Communities Program (NCP) began through the collaboration of the Chicago Local Initiatives Support Corporation...

ARTICLE | Join Tamarack's Board of Directors in 2022

Tamarack’s Board of Directors members have been key partners in stewarding the organization forward since 2001. They have...

WEBINAR | Collective Impact in Action / L’impact collectif en action

Version française

Five years ago, Montréal’s Collective Impact Project was launched as a unique neighbourhood-based effort to...

WEBINAR | Climate Transitions Cohort – Q&A session

The Community Climate Transitions team at Tamarack is launching the Climate Transitions Cohort.

Over 10 months, a group of...

WEBINAR | Place-based Philanthropy for City-wide Change

The funding landscape in Québec – and Montréal in particular- has seen increased willingness for collaborative philanthropy and a...

WEBINAR | Basic Income and Climate Change

Basic Income has been long positioned as a means to reduce poverty and improve equality, but it is also a promising strategy for...

PANEL NOTES | Charity Village Conference November 3, 2021

Below you will find reflections and examples from the first 20 months of implementing the Communities Building Youth Futures...

WEBINAR | The Collaboration Spectrum Revisited

The Collaboration Spectrum is a foundational approach for Tamarack. There are so many ways that collaborative efforts are...

WEBINAR | Building Equitable Economies for Immigrants and Refugees in Peel

We are excited to announce that the community of Peel has been selected for the Participatory Grantmaking Pilot! We would like to...

CASE STUDY | Fostering a connected community in Stony Plain

How do communities foster connectedness at a time when it is ever more challenging to do so? The Town of Stony Plain, AB, has...

WEBINAR | Ending Working Poverty in British Columbia

With 42% of people living in poverty considered to be working poor, ending working poverty could cut Canada’s poverty rate almost...

WEBINAR | Place-Based Participatory Evaluation for Strategic Learning

This webinar is part of a new monthly series on Place-based initiatives, featuring a diversity of experiences made in Quebec.

...

Seeing Youth Futures Online Exhibit

For this year’s Seeing Youth Futures Photo Contest, CBYF has created a 3D virtual gallery that featured 10 exceptional photos....

WEBINAR | Reconnecting our Communities: How the Roving Listener Built Community One Neighbour at a Time

The Pandemic response in Canada was swift and given the severity of the situation unprecedented. Though on a technical level we...

WEBINAR | Designing What's Next

We may have imagined what we want to come next, but how to we begin the process of designing it?

Listen to the conversation with...

WEBINAR | Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in Your Community

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a useful framework for communities to make progress on issues that matter to...

CASE STUDY | Revelstoke's Long-Term Strategy Offsets Child Care Shortages

In Revelstoke (population approximately 10,000), more than 50 women and two men provide quality licensed part- and full-time...

WEBINAR | Socially Connected Communities

Social isolation rates were soaring across the world even before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered the gathering places that...

ARTICLE | Communities Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals

Across Canada, communities are exploring ways to build a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient future that is aligned with...

WEBINAR | Monitoring Happiness and Community Well-Being

On July 7th, Tamarack's Cities Deepening Community Team was joined by Oksana Kishchuk and Richard Jenkins to explore the concept ...

WEBINAR | Imagining What's Next

As the Covid vaccine gets into more and more arms, we are all starting to dream about a world post-Covid. But what will this look...

WEBINAR | The Power of Place

Where we live matters. The term ‘place-based’, in relation to foundations or national government bodies, is currently used to...

ARTICLE | Transforming Community Pain into Community Gain

In any place-based approach, organizations will encounter unforeseen obstacles, often in the form of policy or lack of funding....

WEBINAR | Communities Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (en anglais seulement)

During the annual Communities Ending Poverty (CEP) gathering in May 2021, Tamarack hosted a workshopon how two Communities...

WEBINAR | Climate Change and Ending Poverty (en anglais seulement)

In May 2021, Tamarack hosted a workshop on ending poverty and addressing climate change, with speakers from Climate Caucus,...

GRAPHIC RECORDING | The End of Poverty Summit

From May 5th to May 6th, poverty reduction organizers and advocates joined the first online End of Poverty Summit from homes and...

CASE STUDY | Harvesting Local Gifts and Assets at the Centennial Community Garden

Community gardens have been popping up in cities across Canada and have been proven to have many health benefits such as...

WEBINAR | Building Ecosystems for Positive Change

There are many ways of creating social change. For those looking for lasting systemic change, ‘ecosystem building’ has become a...

WEBINAR | Democracy - A New Idea For Government to Do 'With' Not 'For'

In this webinar, John McKnight and David Mathews explored why there is a loss of faith in governing institutions, why doing...

WEBINAR | Monitoring Outcomes & Measuring Impact

The Opportunity Youth Forum was launched in 2012 as a national movement to create innovative, place-based and collaborative...

WEBINAR | How Basic Income Can Drive Economic Recovery, Jobs, and Poverty Reduction

A new report, Potential Economic Impacts and Reach of Basic Income Programs, finds that Basic Income could be both a...

WEBINAR | Cities Developing Community-Based COVID-19 Recovery (en anglais seulement)

The impacts of COVID-19 have been profound. Communities have had to deal with incredible loss, businesses have suffered, children...

CASE STUDY | Leeds & Grenville Reduces Poverty Through Tax Filing

Helping people file their taxes is a very impactful poverty reduction action at the community-level. Tax credits and benefits can...

WEBINAR | Communities Mobilizing to Build Youth Futures

Youth are the future of our communities. The more we can support them to be successful, the more we are helping our communities...

WEBINAR | Innovative Approaches to Ending Social Isolation in Canada

After months of social distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are facing what some are calling a “loneliness...

CASE STUDY | Building a Neighbourhood Plan - Doing With Not For

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

Traditional models of housing services are...

WEBINAR | Making the Case for Arts-Based Engagement

The Arts bring life to our communities. They spark joy. They teach. It connects. They ask us to see things differently. But so...

WEBINAR | The Power of Co-Design

Co-Design is a collaborative approach that actively involves a diverse stakeholder group (e.g. staff, partners, citizens,...

PUBLICATION | 2015-2020 Cities Reducing Poverty Five-Year Impact

Founded in 2002, Cities Reducing Poverty (CRP) has grown to support more than 330 municipalities represented by 80 regional...

WEBINAR | Indigenous Perspectives on Poverty Reduction

The pandemic has underscored many of the disparities and inequities in our country, including the disproportionate impact of...

WEBINAR | Assessing the Effects of Local Intersectoral Action: A New Online Tool

What lessons can we derive from a multi-year research and evaluation process focused on understanding the impact of local...

CASE STUDY | Harnessing Data: Evidence-Based Practice in Chatham-Kent

Data is a powerful tool for community change efforts. It is the foundation for understanding, tackling, and marking progress on...

WEBINAR | Creating Equitable and Resilient places

During the novel pandemic, many communities have demonstrated the leadership capacity to stay resilient using/improving their...

WEBINAR | Climate Change Champions

In this webinar, members of Tamarack's Board of Directors - Lori Hewson, Mary Pickering, and Ana Gonzalez Guerrero - discuss...

WEBINAR | Poverty Perspectives

Kerry Nolan and Kate Gunn have been involved in leading anti poverty work initiatives in Peel Region, Whitehorse and Edmonton....

WEBINAR | Innovation and Leadership

In this webinar, members of Tamarack's Board of Directors, Shauna Sylvester, Director of Simon Fraser University’s Wosk Centre...

WEBINAR | Meaningfully Engaging Youth in Evaluation

How can we ensure that the work we do is youth-centered and reflective of youth voice? Meaningfully engaging youth often requires...

PUBLICATION | Cities Reducing Poverty: 2020 Impact Report

The Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty 2020 Impact Report is our first attempt at capturing and communicating national...

WEBINAR | People, Practice, and Transformational Change

In this webinar, John Kania and Liz Weaver discuss the challenges we face while working for transformational change and impact.

WEBINAR | Engaging Community for Evaluation

How do we ensure evaluation is inclusive, equitable, and community-driven? What criteria do we use? How do we help others use...

WEBINAR | Leadership for Navigating Change

Listen as Bill Fulton and Jodi Hardin from The Civic Canopy in Denver, Colorado share their reflections on the leadership...

WEBINAR | Systems Leadership in Action

In this webinar, Pamela Teitelbaum, our Director of Evaluating Impact will hosted Tatiana Fraser and Rachel Sinha from Systems...

WEBINAR | Rekindling Democracy - An Interview with Cormac Russell

As we look at community recovery planning across Canada, many organizations are asking what their role is in deepening community...

WEBINAR | Turning Uncertainty into Bold Action

In this webinar, Diana Renner shares her thoughts about being at the threshold of change and ambiguity. She will help us shift...

WEBINAR | Engaging Youth: Inspiring Stories & Lessons Learned

Engagement is critical for all programs, services, and initiatives that impact youth. Both youth and organizations that serve...

WEBINAR | Basic Income: Business Perspectives

Calls for Basic Income have been gaining ground on both sides of the political spectrum over the last several months due to...

WEBINAR | Tools for Harnessing Collective Creativity

Whether the meeting you are hosting is virtual or face-to-face, being intentional about how you design and facilitate it can make...

WEBINAR | Navigating Change: Three Tools for Moving from Response to Resilience

Navigating disruption and change is challenging. During times of chaos and dramatic change, we find it difficult to envision the...

WEBINAR | Asset Based Recovery: How to Put Community at the Center

Communities across the globe are starting to move from crisis to recovery in response to COVID-19. But how might we think about...

WEBINAR | Circle: A Container for Hosting Conversations that Matter

In this time of uncertainty and great upheaval there is a growing desire to do things differently. We are hungry for new...

FIELD NOTE | Moving Programs and Practices Online

During the pandemic organizations are having to rethink how they implement programs and activities. Are face to face meetings,...

RESOURCE | Five Interconnected Practices for Community Change

This resource is also available in French. Click here to access the French version.

WEBINAR | Being Accountable to our Communities: What are we Promising and How are we Working Together?

Listen as Lisa Attygalle joins with Rich Harwood—President and Founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation—to explore...

WEBINAR | How Cities Are Responding to the Pandemic

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty (VC–CRP) members across Canada have responded to...

WEBINAR | Basic Income: Towards Gender Equity

Gender equality is still far from being realized. In terms of economic parity, the World Economic Forum ranked women and girls in...

WEBINAR | At Home with Uncertainty: Practical Outcome Mapping Concepts and Tools

Outcome Mapping is an approach to evaluative thinking and practice which embeds a particular way of thinking about development...

CASE STUDY | Central Iowa Shows Reducing Poverty is Possible

Since 2015, 36,000 more central Iowans are now financially self-sufficient.Central Iowa has achieved success in poverty reduction...

CASE STUDY | New Brunswick's COVID Response to Vulnerable Populations

When COVID-19 restrictions were announced in New Brunswick, communities were ready to respond quickly to the needs of vulnerable...

TOOL | Virtual Community of Practice

Are you are looking to build connection and capacity across a diverse team in a virtual environment? Developing a Virtual...

WEBINAR | Tenacity, Humility, and Collaborative Change

Listen as Tom Klaus and Liz Weaver engage in a conversation about the elements of tenacity, humility and how these play out when...

WEBINAR | Basic Income and Youth

Young people are facing a range of systemic issues that will significantly impact their futures as they enter the job market,...

WEBINAR | Theatre for Change

Have you ever considered using theatre as a tool for community change? Around the world, theatre is being picked up as an...

WEBINAR | Living the Future

Join Dr. Glenda Eoyang and Liz Weaver as they explore the following questions in an animated conversation about the future. What...

TOOL | Cellphilming

Cellphilming is a participatory video technique for creating learning experiences, collecting data and sharing stories in your...

WEBINAR | Basic Income: The International Response to COVID-19

This webinar brings together government representatives and Basic Income advocates from Canada, the United States and Europe to...

PUBLICATION | Cities Reducing Poverty: Responding to COVID-19

Through the COVID-19 crisis, Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty (VC–CRP) has responded to meet urgent community needs...

ARTICLE | Planning for the Future During Uncertainty

The COVID-19 Pandemic makes it difficult to think about the future, while also making it crucial that changemakers plan for their...

WEBINAR | The Power of One

Cameron Norman and Liz Weaver explore the role of the individual changemakers in systems change. Like the butterfly effect, each...

WEBINAR | Addressing Global Issues with Community

Community is the lifeblood of every place. Positive relationships between neighbours boosts the wellbeing of everyone in the...

WEBINAR | The Courage of Conviction

Moira Were and Liz Weaver discuss how to step into our convictions with courage. Activism is lived daily through small and large...

WEBINAR | An Introduction to Collective Impact

The Collective Impact model provides a structure for multiple organizations to forge a common agenda for solving a complex and...

CASE STUDY | Revelstoke Leveraging COVID-19 to Build Community Resilience

While the impact of COVID-19 has been swift and intense, Revelstoke, BC has mobilized its response to the pandemic in an...

WEBINAR | Budgeting for your Collective Impact Initiative

The budget requirements of any Collective Impact effort tend to evolve over time as the work of the initiative expands and grows. 

WEBINAR | Mushkiki (medicine) Healing Self and Systems

How can we heal the system in a time of intense challenge? It starts with healing yourself.

WEBINAR | The Changing Role of Philanthropy

Listen as Louise, Sophie and Liz engage in a conversation about the changing role and impact of philanthropy, and explore how...

WEBINAR | Poverty in the Face of COVID-19

In the past year, Canada has made some incredible strides to reduce poverty, even reaching the lowest level of poverty in its...

TOOL | Virtual Peer Input Process

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...

WEBINAR | Findings from Ontario's Basic Income Experience

In March 2020, McMaster University published a study on the results of Ontario's Basic Income Pilot project which was prematurely...

WEBINAR | Co-Matters: Insights Into Community Innovation and Getting Through COVID-19

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...

WEBINAR | Collective Impact 3.0 in Dynamic and Disruptive Times

Join Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver as they review the evolution of Collective Impact 3.0, and discuss the role of Collective Impact...

WEBINAR | Working Remotely: Lessons from the Tamarack Team

Join, Paul, Liz and members of the Tamarack team as they reflect on working remotely and how this approach can work effectively,...

WEBINAR | Beyond the Project: Fostering Ongoing Engagement with Your Community

There is a growing interest and desire for organizations to engage with community members on an ongoing basis, to build...

GUIDE | Tamarack's Guidelines for Working Remotely

We're sharing our own guide for working remotely to support the organizations and workers that are transitioning to remote work...

WEBINAR | Ending Poverty: Making Basic Income Feasible in Canada

A new report from the Basic Income Network Canada uses Statistics Canada data to prove that Basic Income is no longer a...

WEBINAR | Applying ABCD in an Urban Indigenous Context

In this webinar, Lori Sokoluk shared stories on how she has aligned the Asset-Based Community Development approach with the...

GUIDE | Foundations for Shared Measurement

How do you track and report on the success of your collaborative? How do you establish whether your initiative is working, what...

CASE STUDY | Saskatoon's Journey to a Common Agenda for Collective Impact

What does it take to achieve meaningful and inclusive change? Saskatoon’s Poverty Reduction Partnership has adopted a unique and...

CASE STUDY | Common Indicators: Shared Measurement in Sault Ste. Marie

The thought of shared measurement can be intimidating. In fact, it’s been compared to “traditional measurement on steroids” but...

WEBINAR | Asking our Communities: A Journey to Understand Participation and Involvement

How do you engage your community to get input on a particular issue? Last year, the Vancouver Foundation received responses from...

GUIDE | Developing A Common Agenda For A Poverty Reduction Plan

This guide outlines a proven, appreciative inquiry approach that Vibrant Communities – Cities Reducing Poverty has developed...

WEBINAR | Building Social Capital through Community Development

What do you do once you have mapped out the assets in your community? How can you engage residents to share their gifts and...

CASE STUDY | How to Connect Diverse Leaders Around a Common Purpose

Leaders in the towns of Kingsville and Leamington, Ontario are spearheading an innovative cross-community initiative for...

WEBINAR | Bridging Difference: Building Authentic Collaborative Partnerships

Impactful collaboration is built on the frame of authentic partnerships. Increasingly, complex community challenges require the...

CASE STUDY | Fostering Community Through Neighbourhood Grants

Neighbourhood grants have been popping up across the country. These locally-based, resident-driven grants pave the way for...

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