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WEBINAR | Collaboration – Beginnings and Endings

This webinar recording features a conversation with Linda Mollenhauer of Ignite NPS and the Tamarack Institute’s own Liz Weaver...

CASE STUDY | Citizen Mobilization as a Tool in the Fight Against Systemic Racism: The Case of the City of Montréal

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

This publication is part of a series of case...

TOOL | Accountability Matrix: Building an Accountability Matrix to Guide Your Collaboration

Tamarack Institute Co-CEO Liz Weaver has designed a collaborative tool for building accountability matrices, to support your...

WEBINAR | Navigating Multiple Crises: Reflecting on the Role of Systemic Mediation for Transformative Change

This webinar recording features a conversation about the concept of systemic mediation and what it can offer towards building the...

WEBINAR | Creating a Culture of Abundance and Equity: Lessons from The Learning Tree

This webinar recording features a conversation with some of the bright minds behind The Learning Tree on their organization’s...

Land Acknowledgement Guidelines

This guide will walk you through the commitments Tamarack has made to our own land acknowledgements, while also guiding members,...

WEBINAR | Circle of Actions Q&A

This webinar recording features a conversation with members of the Communities Building Belonging team about the Circle of Actions

REPORT | Evaluation Report: Participatory Grantmaking Pilot

This report by Jean-Marie Chapeau showcases the findings of an evaluation of the Participatory Grantmaking Pilot Project that...

TOOL | Open Space Technology

Open Space is a highly flexible and participatory methodology that allows participants to co-design and self-manage their meeting...

WEBINAR | Using Social Finance to Catalyze Place-Based Change

In the midst of intersecting and compounding crises, there is a pressing need for financial tools that drive positive change at...

WEBINAR | Building Communities That Create a Sense of Belonging

This webinar recording features a conversation about the structures (social, physical and relational) that create belonging,...

WEBINAR | Indigenous Partnerships for SDGs

This webinar recording features a conversation developing partnerships along the economic, environmental, and social dimensions...

GUIDE | Improving Youth Service Navigation: A Guide for Community Organizations

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

Navigating the web of social services for...

WEBINAR | Advancements on Basic Income in Canada: 2023 and Beyond

This webinar recording features a conversation about important developments in the basic income movement in Canada over the...

WEBINAR | Cybersecurity – Building a Proactive Approach

This webinar recording features a conversation with three leaders in the field of cybersecurity about how nonprofit organizations...

WEBINAR | Intro to the Inner Development Goals: A Tool for Transforming Systems

This webinar recording features a conversation with Jamie Bristow and Arielle Goodman on how to apply inner development and...

ARTICLE | Building Strong Brains in Elkhart County, Indiana

Discover the impactful journey of Elkhart County's commitment to childhood development! 

ARTICLE | Collaboration Lab: Investing in Leaders in Danville, Virginia

Discover the transformation of the Dan River Region! This Impact Story highlights the remarkable journey of building a...

ARTICLE | Belonging, Community and Climate Action

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

At a time of increasing social isolation and...

ARTICLE | Interconnected Practices for Community and Systems Impact

Unlock the power of change through understanding. This article discusses Tamarack's transformative framework that fuels and...

CASE STUDY | Building Housing Co-Operative Communities

Four trailblazing communities across Canada joined Tamarack's Building Belonging Membership Program. Through it, they built...

WEBINAR | Neighbourhood Roundtables: When lived experience and community engagement are at the heart of neighbourhood actions

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

WEBINAR | The Evaluation of Montréal en commun: Collaborating to Generate Learning in an Urban Innovation Context

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

WEBINAR | The Art of Scaling Deep

This webinar recording features a conversation with Tatiana Fraser and Rachel Sinha, co-founders of The Systems Sanctuary

ARTICLE | Harnessing the power of networking: The case of the National Table of Community Development Corporations

How does the National Table of Community Development Corporations harness networking power in community development?

ARTICLE | Community Belonging: A Way to End Poverty in Canada

How can community belonging help to reduce poverty in Canada?

WEBINAR | Relationship Infrastructure for Stronger Neighbourhoods: The Roles of Government and Social Leaders

This webinar recording features a conversation with Seth Kaplan, PhD, about his October 2023 book, Fragile Neighbourhoods,...

CASE STUDY | When Community Residents Define Priorities

What happens when the people in a community are given decision-making power? In this case study, discover how Tamarack is working...

WEBINAR | Democratizing Planning Practices with Radical Cartography

This masterclass recording features a presentation from Aurash Khawarzad, an artist, educator and urban planner whose work uses a...

WEBINAR | Centering Creative and Community Voices: Lessons From a Civic Revitalization Initiative

This webinar recording features a conversation with David Carey and Sam Carter-Shamai of Toronto’s The Bentway, an organization...

REPORT | Communities Ending Poverty Impact Report: A Deep Dive into 2022

Communities Ending Poverty (CEP) is a dynamic network on a mission to eradicate poverty across Canada and beyond. With over two...

CASE STUDY | Transforming the Coasts of New Brunswick through Community Engagement

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

Coastal communities in Canada are facing...

WEBINAR | Five Community-Driven Pathways for Systems Change

This webinar recording features a conversation with members of New-Zealand Aotearoa-based SASS (Systems-change Advocacy Support...

WEBINAR | Grassroots Versus Grasstops: The Complex Dynamics of Achieving a Just Transition

This webinar recording features a conversation with Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency...

WEBINAR | Businesses Reducing Poverty

This webinar recording examines the case for for-profits in the changemaking space and highlighted unique levers businesses have...

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...

WEBINAR | Investing in Place-Based Change: Practice and Innovation

Place-based or community-based collaborative models have the power and potential to drive significant and systems level impact....

RESOURCE | Days of Significance Guidelines

Many folks in your organization or community, just like at Tamarack, observe various ethnocultural, religious, faith, and...

CASE STUDY | Centering Equity and Place-Based Approaches in Systemic Transformation

In this paper we explore what equity means in place-based change and systems transformation. We consider it as one of the most...

WEBINAR | Engaging Hearts and Minds through Deep Canvassing

This webinar recording features a conversation with Montana Burgess of BC-based Neighbours United about the practice of deep...

WEBINAR | The United Nations High-Level Political Forum and SDG Localization

The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is an annual global check-in hosted by the United Nations to take stock on progress towards...

WEBINAR | Authentically Sharing Power with Youth

This webinar recording features a conversation with Meleah Follen, Youth Engagement Director at the Northfield Healthy Community...

WEBINAR | Building Sustainable Collaborations: Authentic Engagement and Partnership-Building

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

WEBINAR | From Coaching to the Practice of Collaborative and Inclusive Leadership: The Leadership rassembleurMC Program

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

CASE STUDY | Designing Well-Being Economies in Canada and Abroad

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

Growing poverty, escalating climate change,...

WEBINAR | Building Sustainable Collaborations: Stories of Building and Restructuring

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

CASE STUDY | Implementing a Participatory Climate Action Plan in Halifax

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

This case study by Community Climate...

WEBINAR | Planning for Sustainable and Affordable Housing During the Climate Crisis

Safe, adequate and affordable housing is not only essential to tackling the climate emergency, but a crucial requirement to...

WEBINAR | A World Without Labels: Taking a Service-Centred Approach to Inclusion

This webinar recording features a conversation with a panel of community advocates who are working to change how we see labeled...

WEBINAR | Building Sustainable Collaborations: Stories from Hamilton, Ontario, and Newfoundland

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

This webinar recording features a...

WEBINAR | Global Book Launch for Breakthrough Community Change

This webinar recording features a conversation with veteran community organizer Paul Born, Tamarack Institute Co-CEO Danya...

WEBINAR | Community Leaders: A Necessary Part of Your Social Change Strategy

This webinar recording features a conversation with four community leaders who discuss why they stepped up and their role in...

WEBINAR | Building Sustainable Collaborations from the Start

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

This webinar recording features a...

WEBINAR | Building a New Civic Economy for a Societal and Ecological Transition

This webinar recording features a conversation with Indy Johar, founding director of Dark Matter Labs and one of the world’s...

WEBINAR | “The Art of Navigating in Torrents”: Building Resilient Communities

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

This webinar recording features a...

PUBLICATION | CBYF Formative Evaluation Report

This formative evaluation report provides an overview of the first two years of the implementation of the Communities Building...

WEBINAR | When Children Succeed: A Collective Impact Success Story

This webinar recording dives into one of the community of Saint John, New Brunswick's, big successes: Closing the...

WEBINAR | When Residents Lead: Creating Change by Coming Together Locally

This conversation with members of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues explores the importance of local leadership to...

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 | Sustaining Social Change: Insights from Australia’s Field-Building Intermediaries

This webinar recording features a conversation with Annabelle Roxon, a co-author of Social Ventures Australia’s research on...

WEBINAR | Understanding the Impact of Building Relationships

This webinar recording features a conversation with David Jay, founder of Relationality Lab, who takes us through scientific...

WEBINAR | Local Government Contribution: A Game Changer for Positive Social Change

This webinar recording explores avenues and tools within municipal and district jurisdiction to help local government leaders,...

GUIDE | 10 Ways Local Government Can Propel Positive Social Change

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

As communities face increasingly complex...

WEBINAR | The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth and Power of Neighbourhoods

This webinar recording features a conversation with Cormac Russell and John L. McKnight, who talk about their book, The Connected...

WEBINAR | Overcoming Ecoanxiety and Caring For Ourselves and Others

In this webinar recording, we unpack the human and behavioural aspects of navigating the climate crisis.

10: A Guide for Building a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration

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

10: A Guide for Building a Sustainable and...

CASE STUDY | Saint John Stronger Together

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

This case study captures how Saint John, NB,...

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 | Do We Know the Problem We’re Trying to Solve?

This conversation between Sylvia Cheuy and Liz Weaver explores why it’s important for the leaders of a collaboration to take the...

TOOL | The Cynefin Framework: Defining a Collaborative Problem or Opportunity

Not all problems require the same approach. In fact, by understanding the nature of the problem the collaborative or community...

CASE STUDY | Transforming Systems Through Lived Experience

This case study explores the development and impact of a pilot project that targeted skill building in anti-poverty advocacy,...

FIELD NOTES | Centering Anti-Racist and Equity Frameworks in Anti-Poverty Work

Tamarack’s Communities Ending Poverty hosted two conversations that explored how CEP members were developing, implementing, and...

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...

CASE STUDY | Building Resilient, Sustainable Urban Communities through Collective Action

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

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...

WEBINAR | Impact Networks: Building Relationships Across Boundaries to Catalyze Systems Change

This webinar recording features a conversation with David Ehrlichman, co-founder of the Converge network and author of Impact...

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...

ARTICLE | Collective Climate Action Funding

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

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...

PAPER | What Is Community?

This resource is the first of eight foundational papers we've written as part of a series titled Building the Case for Deepening...

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 ...

WEBINAR | Strategies for Shifting Power from Funder-Driven to Community-Driven

This webinar recording features a conversation with  Gabriela Alcade and Lauress Lawrence from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation,...

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.

CASE STUDY | Participatory Grantmaking in the Peel Region

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

This case study from Myriam Bérubé and...

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 | Navigating the Community Data Program

This webinar featured an overview of the Community Data Program (CDP) and related consortium; highlighted available data sets;...

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...

CASE STUDY | A Squad of Young Tech Tutors Responds to the Challenges of Pandemic Digital Learning

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

Written by Tania Fournier and Sarah...

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...

RESOURCE | Tamarack 2030 Plan on a Page

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

This Plan on a Page provides an overview of...

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...

WEBINAR | A Dialogue on Systems Change to Improve Data Collection and Access

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

...

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...

ARTICLE | Future of Work: Survey of Youth and Employers Summary Report

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

This presentation by Megan Nimigon and...

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...

ARTICLE | “I felt the power, I felt the fire”: Empowering Newcomers to the Peel Region Through Participatory Grantmaking

Many funders are interested in moving away from the traditional grantmaking models — which have been criticized as rigid, opaque...

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...

ARTICLE | Making the Case for Arts-Based Engagement

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

The arts bring life to our communities. It...

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...

CASE STUDY | Shifting From a Funder-Driven to Community-Driven Process

The Elmina B. Sewall Foundation (Sewall) has been engaged in a learning journey—both internally and externally—to deepen equity....

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...

FACT SHEET | Neighbourhood Round Tables

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

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...

GUIDE | Communities Ending Poverty Membership Orientation

Read this guide if you are new to the Communities Ending Poverty, would like a refresher on the many exciting learning...

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 | Getting to Systems Change: Canada’s Report on Poverty

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

In this...

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...

BOOK | 10 - A Guide to Celebrate Paul Born

Paul Born, Tamarack’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, was the creator of Tamarack’s signature 10 Guides. The guides each feature 10...

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...

CASE STUDY | Common threads: Weaving climate action in Montreal

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

This case study looks at how a group of...

WEBINAR | Mobilizing Community Change with Youth at the Centre: Lessons Learned from Communities Building Youth Futures

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

How might...

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...

Case Study | Digby's Youth-Led Initiative Creates a Space for Youth in Nova Scotia

Through our research with the Digby area community, which was done through Turning the Tide, we at Inspiring Communities...

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...

CASE-STUDY | Corner Brook: Free Tutoring Builds Student Confidence

After the Bell Student Supports Tutoring Program is a new initiative created by Communities Building Youth Futures Corner Brook,...

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...

CASE STUDY | Sudbury Youth Co-Design Digital Strategy to Improve Service Access

The Brand Identity and Digital Strategy project’s goal was to develop an in-depth understanding of youth and how to best engage,...

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....

PAPER | Building Collective Impact Capacity | Why Now?

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

As it has continued to evolve and mature,...

WEBINAR | Place-Based Neighbourhood Roundtable Model in Montréal

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

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...

PUBLICATION | The End of Poverty: Eight Pathways That Are Ending Poverty in Canada

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

This guide presents high-impact policies,...

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?

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