Featured Blogs

Hearing the Sound of Genuine Participation by : Nonprofit Doc

A buzzing sound can mean many things. When I was a kid growing up on an Iowa farm, a buzzing sound usually meant bees were near by. There are buzzing sounds that indicate good things are happening. I heard one just like that last week in Buffalo, New York.

When does Evaluation Become Bureaucracy?

Reflections on The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber by : Andrew Taylor

Sometimes, evaluation turns into bureaucracy. Reading this book gave me new insights into how and why this happens, and what to do to avoid it.

Faces of Edmonton

Gallery Walk by : Devonkerslake

Tamarack Institute will include some of these incredible portraits on a "gallery walk" at the event in Edmonton

Community Engagement: Some Takeaways to Share

Submitted by Laine Johnson by : Community Animator

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.

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Collective Impact Insanity

How to Achieve Different Results by : Sienna Jae Taylor

The social issues that we are dealing with in today's society are solvable, and yet they have not been solved. Different results can only come from different solutions. It is time for change.

The End of Collective Impact

by : toddbarr

Collective impact (CI) is about trying to “move the needle” on complex community issues in our communities like poverty, housing and climate change – all towards a better life for all. Or is it?

Considering Courage

The dilemma of courage by : Liz Weaver

Do you have courage? How do you act in times of challenge or stress?

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Reclaim Honour

A Project Rooted in Community Engagement by : Devonkerslake

Reclaim Honour takes a Youth Participatory Action Approach to raise awareness and prevent gender-based violence. This approach is strength-based and rooted in community engagement.

Reflections on Making Complexity Simple

By Sarah Fielden and Sarah Farina by : Community Animator

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.

INNOVATING INNOVATION

Connecting technological, business and social innovation by : Tim Draimin

After a century of robust development of technological and business innovation, plus several decades of cracking the code of social innovation, the time has come to create an integrated innovation system.