Resource Type: Publication | Author: John Kania & Mark Kramer
Collective impact efforts are upending conventional wisdom about the manner in which we achieve social progress.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Garry Loewen and Mark Cabaj
This seminar explores Garry Loewen’s resource, A Compendium of Poverty Reduction Strategies and Frameworks. The resource contains 147 strategies that groups have used to try to reduce poverty, and describes frameworks and processes that groups use to help them move toward greater levels of comprehensiveness.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Lynne Slotek
In this seminar, Liz Weaver interviews Lynne Slotek about the Canadian Index of Well-being (CIW). The CIW is a measurement approach to determine changes in the quality of life and wellbeing of citizens and communities.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Lidia Kemeny
In this seminar, Liz Weaver and Lidia Kemeny discuss Vital Signs. Vital Signs is an example of a measurement approach to determine if citizen engagement, collaboration and vibrancy is increasing in a community.
Resource Type: Publication | Author : Marya Axner
This publication analyzes fundamental strategic ways to empower communities and individuals through Multi-Sector Collaborations.
Resource Type: Website | Owner: Business Fights Poverty
The leading online community for business and development, connecting over 10,000 professionals.
The role of business in community change and solving problems such as poverty is complex but absolutely essential. Listen to this call as Mark Chamberlain is president of Trivaris Limited in Hamilton, Ontario, shares his experience in operating a successful business as well as participating in the complex problems...
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Mark Cabaj
This seminar, profiles the work of six different Canadian cities as they worked collaboratively to reduce poverty and synthesizes the experience of Vibrant Communities Canada over the past decade into a set of powerful lessons for any city eager to address the complex issue of poverty.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Brenda Zimmerman
Complexity suggests that relationships between parts are more important than the parts themselves. Learn more in this seminar that explores ‘wicked questions’, leadership, social innovation and complex systems thinking.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Katharine Pearson
This podcast explores the concept of applied dissemination through several case studies and an examines the Sustaining Social Innovation initiative led by the McConnell Foundation in 2006.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: John Weiser and Garry Loewen
There is a clear role for businesses in community change efforts. In this seminar, John Weiser and Garry Loewen provide inspiring examples of business involvement with community change. And, they offer practical information for non-profits wanting to effectively engage and collaborate with the business sector.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Mark Cabaj
This seminar explores four phases of collaborative community efforts using an eco-cycle lens, which has implications for the planning, delivery and renewal of initiatives.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Meg Wheatley
If we understood how life organizes, how might we organize differently? In her book, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Margaret Wheatley introduced new approach for how we think about organization and collaboration. Here she shares her thoughts about leadership and collaboration in...
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Kathleen Kevany
This seminar examines the use of power for impact, what power over, power with and power through each looks like while also taking a hard look at the misuse of power and how to remedy it within the context of inclusion in community collaborations.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Tamarack Institute
See the progress and results of collaborative efforts being made across Canada.
