Our work spans sectors and communities and supports you to engage the players in your community, from grassroots leaders to on-the-ground organizations to institutions and businesses to government, as it is the capacities of everyone within and connected to a community ecosystem that contribute to strengthening that ecosystem over time. Some of these projects include:
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Community Engagement Strategies
Centennial College
Supporting the development of a college-wide community engagement framework built on the College’s rich history and role within its various communities. This has included:
- Strategic development of the community engagement framework
- Internal asset mapping
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Building Institutional Capacity
Northcrest Developments
Catalyzing local equity hiring by seeding and developing community-based workforce pathways using a collaborative and coordinated cross-community workforce development strategy. This has included:
- Capacity building and learning about the Connected Community Approach
- Coaching around community engagement and network building, including exploration of potential new pathways and activities
- Forum design and support
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Strengthening Local Resilience
Headwaters Communities in Action
Helping to strengthen Headwaters Communities in Action’s (HCIA) resilience post-pandemic by enabling it to live into its Theory of Change with concrete actions using the Connected Community Approach. This support has included:
- Development of a Playbook that turns HCIA’s Theory of Change into operational actions
- Co-designing concrete steps towards HCIA’s strategic directions
- Customized learning journey that enables HCIA in its role as a community backbone organization, including access to tools, resources and coaching support