Category: Past initiatives

This is a transformative moment for cities in Canada Cities are the wellspring of solutions Cities are increasingly the home of humanity, heralding the Urbanocene Epoch. According to the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, globally, cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and account for more than 70% of global carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time, […]

Offers insights about the youth engagement initiative, YouthScape, through the eyes of its Lead Developmental Evaluator.

The report also provides an overview of the food surplus or deficit positions of counties and regions across Southern Ontario. The findings point to opportunities for the province's food system to better match domestic consumption, increasing the amount of food grown locally.

This story describes CCCcategorys effort to find a structure and mindset that allowed it to develop a more targeted approach to advocacy. Second, it presents details from the coalitioncategorys work to build a caregiving policy agenda. Third, it reviews the impact of sharing or category鱯caling outcategory its knowledge and lessons about organizational change and advocacy to the Ontario Caregiver Coalition.

This is a tool for human resource professionals at post-secondary institutions whose strategic plans include commitments to community engagement, Indigenous reconciliation, social impact, sustainability, social justice, social change, and social purpose. It is designed to help identify opportunities to embed your institution’s societal goals into performance management and the employee experience for those working within […]

This guide is intended for community and organizational actors who would sincerely like to integrate young people ages 12 to 25 within their communities by allowing them to actively participate in decisions affecting them and allowing play a more influential role.

A new guide to help with the assessment of changes in the physical, natural, financial and human dimensions of a project, using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. Based on a theory often used in international development projects, it was developed by Ricardo Ramirez with input from several partners. It was tested by two projects in Saskatoon and Nova Scotia, and while it was developed to support projects funded under the Regional Value Chain program, we hope that it proves useful to a wider audience.

Nourish Wasan Retreat | September 2017 September 2017, leaders from across healthcare, government and food sectors convened together on Wasan Island to explore the role of food in healthcare in Canada, and the core belief of the group was that food is fundamental to health and healing, but is currently undervalued within the healthcare system. […]

Building an inclusive and resilient climate economy in Quebec At the Future Economy Lab (FEL) we are bringing together a select group of organizations to pioneer a new way of nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems that create inclusive and resilient economies. The first iteration of FEL launched in partnership between Maison d’innovation sociale, McConnell Family Foundation, SecondMuse […]

An exploratory dialogue on community service-learning and its effects on education systems and communities.