Hold better meetings, use futures thinking, build systems change plans, and more
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July 2025 

Engage 2025

 

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This month, we are sharing practical tools to support better collaboration.

These resources are for facilitators, non-profit leaders, and anyone working in community. Learn how to lead better meetings, provide appropriate compensation for community collaborators, and include futures thinking and collective impact strategies in your community work. 

Guide to Great Meetings 

This practical resource helps transform meetings into spaces of connection, clarity, and action. Whether you lead groups or support behind the scenes, this guide offers simple tools to make every gathering more productive and inclusive. 

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How we Show Gratitude and Support Participation 

Tamarack has a policy for providing gratitude and compensation to people with lived experience. Learn how we honour collaboration, support diverse voices, and create more equitable spaces by compensating people meaningfully. 

      Read the guide

      Using Futures Thinking in Community Work

      When we work in community change, we are always looking ahead. This article introduces ideas and tools from futures studies that can help you imagine, plan, and act for a more just and equitable tomorrow. 

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      WORKSHOP | Advancing Systems Change 

      With Collective Impact

       

      Two-Part Virtual Workshop

      September 18 & 25, 2025

      1:00 - 4:30 PM ET

      Are you ready to move from good intentions to real systems change?

       

      This two-part virtual workshop will introduce mindsets, tools, and strategies to lead complex partnerships to address root causes—not just symptoms—and create lasting community transformation. 

      Learn more and register

      Reflections from the 2025 ACT BIG Conference

       

      Advocating Canada Toward a Basic Income Guarantee 

      Changemakers from across Canada gathered in Charlottetown, PEI in June for the ACT BIG Conference (Advocating Canada Toward Basic Income Guarantee). Tamarack Institute CEO Danya Pastuszek shares her reflections from her time as an attendee and co-presenter, and outlines three big reflections that centre the good work that is being done in every province and territory, the existing history of the BIG movement, and the range of possibilities that are captured by the idea of a basic income guarantee. 

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      What is a basic income guarantee?

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      Land Acknowledgement 

      In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge that our work occurs across Turtle Island (North America), which has been the ancestral home of Indigenous Peoples of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit descent.

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