Tamarack Institute is proud to announce the recipients of our 2021–22 Communities Building Youth Futures Community Innovation Fund. See below for a full list of funding recipients, including project descriptions.
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Tamarack Institute is proud to announce the recipients of our 2021–22 Communities Building Youth Futures Community Innovation Fund. See below for a full list of funding recipients, including project descriptions.
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The Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia are taking important steps to guarantee paid sick leave for workers.
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This article summarizes key take-aways from the articles released so far to provide you with a high-level summary of the wisdom and learnings gleaned from successful Collective Impact initiatives that have been shared in the...
Paul Born, Tamarack’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, was the creator of Tamarack’s signature 10 Guides. The guides each feature 10 Really Good Ideas, 10 Inspiring Stories and 10 Useful Resources to help changemakers to catalyze...
Join Myriam Berube, Hugo Steban (MIS) and Jean-Francois Jasmin (LLio) to learn the potential of Living Labs to create transformative change. In this virtual workshop, you will understand the Living Labs approach to innovation by and for community members, evaluate the relevance of using a living lab approach to solve a complex issue in your territory or communities and explore the different levers to activate a living lab and the steps to implement it.
Join Liz Weaver and discover ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact.
Tamarack’s Learning Centre exists to empower community changemakers to achieve greater impact. We draw upon our 15 years of experience leading community change and advancing practice to support municipalities, funders, non-profits, and community leaders through on-demand coaching and consulting, in-person and digital training, and publications that guide change efforts.
We support our learning network in developing five interconnected ideas that lead to community change:
In Vibrant Communities we support cities and local leaders to develop and implement large-scale change initiatives through these learning networks:
Cities Deepening Community is a network of 67 cities seeking to strengthen neighbourhoods and 25 cities developing community plans to grow citizen engagement, civic leadership and a sense of belonging.
Communities Building Youth Futures is a five-year strategy to work with up to 13 communities to develop system-wide solutions for youth as they build and act upon plans for their future.
Community Climate Transitions is building a network of communities that are committed to tackling climate change through a multi-solving approach that advances social, environmental and economic goals simultaneously.
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