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

Tamarack's 2013 Communities Collaborating Institute: Accelerating Impact
Monday, October 7, 2013 - Friday, October 11, 2013 in Edmonton, Alberta - Radisson Edmonton South Hotel
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The Communities Collaborating Institute (CCI), Tamarack’s signature, week-long learning event, provides a unique opportunity to join a dynamic learning community of practitioners who desire new ways to lead, engage and transform their communities and then accelerate impact by linking local efforts to provincial, state and national agendas.

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Social Identity: How does it influence when, why & how we use power?
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InnerActivist
The first step to understanding our relationship with power is to get clear on our social identity and the impact it has on our life. community and at work?
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Evaluation Across Boundaries—Literally and Metaphorically
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Guest post by John Gargani cestoronto2013
When I give my keynote address at the Canadian Evaluation Society Conference, I will be discussing the new practice of evaluation. The conference theme is Evaluation Across Boundaries, which is what the new practice of evaluation is advancing — evaluators crossing boundaries to become change makers, program designers, and market engineers.
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Comparing Caribou with Kangaroo
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Australian reflections on Tamarack’s Evaluating Collective Impact Workshop held in Calgary, January 2013 Can Yasmut
When I arrived back in Sydney from our journey to Calgary attending Tamarack’s Evaluating Collective Impact workshop, it took numerous conversations and quiet reflections to realise how much I have learned from diving into the Canadian context of community work. To use a phrase I picked up from Liz Weaver: I really needed some "soaking time".
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Building Personal Mastery with the Inner Activist
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Reflections from 2013 participants InnerActivist
This was no regular leadership workshop. This was an opportunity to get to the bottom of what is really holding each of us back.
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Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact
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Resources from this 2013 Tamarack Learning Event now available online! Sylvia Cheuy
This multi-day interactive Learning Event -- offered in collaboration with John Kania and Fay Hanleybrown of FSG Social Impact Consultants -- is the first-ever Canadian learning opportunity focused on the role and function of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact initiatives.
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Rebuilding the Link between Measurement and Action
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Short training videos that aim to demystify outcome measurement Andrew Taylor
Outcome measurement is only worthwhile if it leads to insight and action. Too often, this link gets lost in bureaucracy. These short, plain language videos are designed to help non-profits find more meaning through their measurement.
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A Graphic Guide to Civic Engagement
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Graphic designer Rowan Caister aims to help Torontonians build a better city between elections with an illustrated handbook Lauren Ross
Torontoist’s goal is to capture the tenor and texture of life in Toronto, to evoke the daily experience of the city in words and images. Carly Maga from the Torontoist writes an article on The Toronto Civic Handbook. The Toronto Civic Handbook is a project that aims to document how we go about being political between elections.
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How To Sustain Good Work Without Fundraising
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Non-Profit GP: Primary Care for Non-Profit Organizations Lauren Ross
Tom Klaus recently wrote a blog on his research and experience when it comes to the relationship between fundraising and project.
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