Posts Tagged ‘Vibrant Communities’
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
A recent report on Vibrant Communities (VC)—a national poverty reduction initiative led by the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement in partnership with the Caledon Institute of Social Policy and the Foundation—focuses on the essential role that national supports played in the success of the initiative.
Inspired Learning: An Evaluation of Vibrant Communities’ National Supports, with a foreword from Foundation President Stephen Huddart, evaluates the design of the learning and networking features provided with national supports to local VC initiatives (also referred to as a hub or backbone organization). The report highlights the specific impact of providing national supports to such a large and complex pan-Canadian initiative. Inspired Learning is a companion report to the earlier Evaluating Vibrant Communities: 2002-2010, which evaluated the key results VC generated for thousands of low-income households across Canada.
Read the full report.
Tags:Caledon Institute, Evaluating Vibrant Communities: 2002-2010, Inspired Learning: An Evaluation of Vibrant Communities' National Supports, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
On January 26th, tune-in for an interview with Al Etmanski, President and founder of PLAN (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network) and partner in Social Innovation Generation (SiG), on Innovating Together. Al will be interviewed by Tamarack President and co-founder Paul Born as part of their Collaborative Leadership Tele-Learning Series.
To learn more about the series or to register, click here.
Tags:Al Etmanski, PLAN Institute, SiG at PLAN, Social Innovation Generation, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Through stories and a unique analysis by editor Mark Cabaj, Cities Reducing Poverty details the poverty reduction efforts of collaborative groups in six Canadian cities—Calgary, Montreal, Surrey, Hamilton, Saint John, and the Niagara region.
The cities are part of the Vibrant Communities initiative—a comprehensive, community-driven, cross-Canada, poverty reduction effort—and “are achieving remarkable results because they’re using creative, comprehensive approaches based on real, on-the-ground knowledge of —and experience of—the complex nature of poverty.”
To order a copy of Cities Reducing Poverty or to learn more about the work of Vibrant Communities visit www.tamarackcommunity.ca.
Tags:Cities Reducing Poverty, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
Social innovation is the theme of the current issue of The Philanthropist, a quarterly journal for practitioners, scholars, supporters, and others engaged in the nonprofit sector in Canada. 
Foundation staff, as well as many friends of the Foundation, contributed articles.
The Foundation’s COO, Stephen Huddart, authored one of the journal’s overview articles, entitled Patterns, Principles, and Practices in Social Innovation, which explores various dimensions of the field of social innovation.
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Tags:Anne Makhoul, Caledon Institute, Edward Jackson, Eric Leviten-Reid, Frances Westley, Gabriel Bran Lopez, Geraldine Cahill, Ian Bird, John Cawley, Nino Antadze, Paul Jurbala, Peter Deitz, SiG at Waterloo, Social Finance, Social innovation, Social Innovation Generation, socialfinance.ca, Stephen Huddart, The Philanthropist, The Sport Matters Group, Vibrant Communities, Youth Fusion
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Yesterday, national sponsors of Vibrant Communities Canada released a report of a nine-year experiment that demonstrates the positive impacts of an innovative and collaborative approach to fighting poverty that is driving individual benefits, neighborhood changes and large scale community poverty reductions.
The report, Vibrant Communities Canada 2002-2010 Evaluation Report, highlights key results and offers deeper understanding of the critical success factors, effectiveness and patterns identified through the Vibrant Communities experiment.
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Tags:Caledon Institute, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Vibrant Communities was recently featured in The Mark, an online news distributor. The article covered last month’s strategic dialogue on poverty-reduction that included senior leaders from across Canada . (more…)
Tags:Strategic Dialogue on Poverty Reduction, The Mark, Vibrant Communities
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
This past May, 46 senior leaders – including the CEO of United Way Canada, the Deputy Minister, Department of Social Development, Government of New Brunswick, heads from several major corporations, foundations, and academics – were invited by the McConnell Foundation and the Tamarack Institute to join a strategic dialogue about working collaboratively to tackle poverty. (more…)
Tags:Strategic Dialogue on Poverty Reduction, Tamarack Institute, Vibrant Communities
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