Improving Travel Options in Small & Rural Communities
This guide is intended to help practitioners—engineers, planners, health professionals, economic development officials and others—to improve travel options for residents of small and rural communities. This includes a range of actions that make personal transportation...
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...