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Welcome to Tamarack CCI - the online learning community for collaborative leaders

Welcome to Tamarack CCI, a Learning Community for collaborative leadership professionals who are charting new ways to engage people from multiple sectors to work together. Please read on for background about this learning community and how to make the most of this website.

Community Engagement: Some Takeaways to Share

Participant of the Community Engagement: The Next Generation, Laine Johnson of Citizens Academy, offers her reflection from her experience in Ottawa from March 9-11.

Reflections on Making Complexity Simple

Following the Evaluation Community Impact Learning Event in Vancouver, two colleagues reflect on their work using "most significant change" as a generative approach and ponder the idea of taking something complex and making it simple.This blog is posted on their behalf.

Thinking of Brenda Zimmerman and Snap- Back Theory

Brenda Zimmerman
Brenda Zimmerman would have called the Canadian election results a snap-back. Snap-back was Brenda’s description of what happened when the organization turned on the change you were trying to make, and snapped back to its old ways of doing things.

Increasing Our Ability to Evaluate Complexity

Evaluation can be a powerful force for change within organizations. As a result of how we assess our efforts, we pay attention to different areas and invest differently.

Evaluating Collective Impact: 5 Simple Rules - Webinar Follow-Up

On August 20, we hosted a webinar with Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver. Here is the recording the recording of their conversation and some suggested resources to support your learning.

United Way, Collective Impact & the Building Blocks for a Good Life

Listen to Stacey D. Stewart, U.S. President of the United Way Worldwide, as she shares her insights of their work worldwide and they role in collective impact.

The Why and How of Working with Community through Collective Impact - Webinar Follow Up

Webinar notes, recording and highlights from the Living Cities webinar on June 18th. The Why and How of Working with Community through Collective Impact.

Why Involve Community in Collective Impact at all?

The recent surge of interest and resources around collective impact principles has highlighted an important concern and challenge for many practitioners: given the often grasstops, institution heavy nature of collective impact, where does the community fit in?

Doing Good Better: Upping Canada’s Game with an R&D Engine

R&D for social impact could be far more intentional, connected, and supported. In that way, it would be much more accessible, widespread, celebrated, and most importantly, impactful.