Asking others for their opinions can change conversations.

Unexpected lessons come in unusual places.

Living SJ is a Social Renewal Strategy for the city and a call to action of government, business and community leaders to invest in systems change with a focus on quality neighbourhoods, cradle-to-career education success, employment readiness and keeping families healthy.

Reflections from my recent trip to Ireland for the Rights, Restructuring and Results Conference.

Tamarack just finished hosting the first ever Collective Impact Summit (CIS) in Toronto, Ontario in October 2014. Here are some of my reflections.

Each day across Canada, staff and volunteers in social-profit and charitable organizations are working hard to deliver important programs and services to some of the most vulnerable individuals in our communities. But how do we actually know that we are making a difference, making an impact, together?

I recently purchased Peter Senge’s book, The Necessary Revolution: Working together to Create a Sustainable World and it really got me thinking.

It is a conundrum. How exactly do we ‘do different with less’ when so many of the structures and systems that we work within want us to do more with less?

Building a container, a holding space, or holding the centre are all useful practices for Collective Impact.

Australia has much to contribute to our collective understanding of how collective impact can be implemented.