Communities Collaborating for Change

IMAGINE...Collaborating across communities for social change!
Working collaboratively across communities to create a united force for social change! Through collaboration, people can significantly impact complex community issues. This learning community is for those who are passionate about creating positive community change through collaboration. Here, practitioners from different sectors meet online to share questions, find resources, inspire and be inspired as together we explore the "sweet spot" that exists at the intersection of community engagement, collaborative leadership and innovation. Join us!

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Community Engagement

Community Engagement
Community Engagement

When people are engaged in communities, they take ownership of the issues facing them. Community engagement is about people working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, drawing strength from each other and from the diversity of their perspectives to create and realize bold visions for their common future. Read More>> | Community Engagement in the Library

Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Leadership

When a diverse group of community members comes together in constructive ways and is provided with reliable information about community issues, they can create powerful visions and plans for change. This is collaborative leadership: the paradoxical notion of "leading together." And, it is alive every time a group takes collective responsibility for the good of the community as a whole. Read More>> | Collaborative Leadership in the Library

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Community Innovation

When communities innovate they have the opportunity to be curious and think creatively together. The result is new strategies and practical solutions to complex community issues. A fundamental premise of community innovation is that "we cannot solve our collective social and economic challenges with the same thinking that created them." Read More>> | Community Innovation in the Library

Featured Blogs

Community Innovation: The Time is Now
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Innovating Together: 2012 Communities Collaborating Institute Paul Born
Community Innovation is about nurturing new approaches to address the social challenges that exist within communities by working together.
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The Search for a Solution
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Economics has become the primary focus of development, not people and their communities. Forgotten is the fact that economic development, as we have come to know it, had as its foundation, community development. Community development, at its roots, is organic.
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How to Encourage Change
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Jennifer Brooks
Encouraging change is like water-skiing ... are you trying to water-ski all by yourself?
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Re- Imagining Community
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Finding Common Ground Through Stories of Place Michael Jones
Each community has a story of place that defines its character and uniqueness.Understanding the uniqueness of its stories of place is the foundation for creating a story for the future that reflects the uniqueness of the place in which we want to live now.
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Non-Profits Are Valuable Partners in Collaborations with Business
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Garry Loewen
Non-profit organizations often feel like supplicants when they ask businesses to work together to renew communities, but they have much to add to the mix.
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Disruption by Design:
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Considerations for Social Innovators Cameron Norman
Innovation, new thinking, and a change in consciousness can upset the way we see our world and the manner in which we relate to it. This disruption can happen by happenstance or intention encouraging us to consider ways to design change before forces outside our influence change us.
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The Three Conversations
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A Framework for Re- Generative Learning and Change Michael Jones
Most communities are not at a loss for innovative ideas. What they often lack however is a supportive environment – or fertile soil – for these seeds to take root and grow.
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The Wicked Problem of Wicked Problems
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What does this mean for planning? Cameron Norman
Wicked problems are receiving a lot of attention these days giving much excitement to systems thinkers and designers alike. Yet what these problems mean for planning and understanding social programs and policies is not clear and may be even more wicked that it first appears.
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