Chilliwack’s Healthier Community Partnership Takes Collective Action
With 36 organizations involved in the Chilliwack Healthier Community (CHC) partnership, and the list continuing to grow, this enthusiastic team works to address the most urgent social issues identified by the community. It’s a good sign when the room is still packed...
Tamarack: An Institute for Community Engagement
Tamarack is charity founded in 2001 that develops and supports learning communities to help people collaborate and co-generate knowledge that solves complex community challenges, especially poverty.
Building Communities: Alberta Municipal Affairs
This website includes resources that provide opportunities for students to explore local government in the contexts of their own community and other communities; based on a fundamental assumption that students should be involved in decision making and encouraged to...
Community Capacity Building: Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
This website provides an overview of the Ontario Healthy Communities approach to community capacity building and links to further resources. – Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
The Region of Waterloo’s Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Reduction
This guide provides a brief summary of current poverty reduction activities across Canada, a description of the role of the Region of Waterloo in poverty reduction, and an overview of the region’s corporate-wide Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Reduction. – Region of...
Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy
A resource designed to help people in the public sector and in the community to understand how to link community experience to the policy-making process. Provides ideas about how to understand the public policy process, build capacities to link community experience to...
Communities and Local Government Working Together: A Resource Manual of Strategies
Seeks to create a climate of mutual respect and understanding between community groups and local governments by presenting Healthy Communities experiences from both the municipal and community group perspectives. – Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
A Municipal Guide to Community Resource Inventory Development
Introduces asset inventories and their practical application to support municipalities in preparing, conducting and utilizing a community resource inventory. Topics addressed include an overview of the community resource inventory, applications and relationship to...