Tamarack Institute
MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement, University of Waterloo Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Road North N2L 3G6 Waterloo, ON, Canada

Traditional stakeholder engagement methods focus on those who are already engaged, can exclude communities like children and young people, and can focus on people as risks to manage. It's Time to Do Stakeholder Mapping Differently, via Max Hardy https://hubs.ly/H0BfZXG0

We're excited to launch our newest workshop - Community Engagement 2021. Join Lisa Attygalle and Pamela Teitelbaum and explore what engaging your community looks like in 2021. You'll explore the movement towards community-led approaches to change, challenge traditional mindsets, integrate authentic engagement processes into all facets of your work, understand the role communications needs to play, and how to adapt your engagement strategies for a changing world. This workshop has two dates available - January 19 and February 9, 2021, and each date is limited to 50-60 learners each. https://hubs.ly/H0Byjlt0

Join us tomorrow for a conversation with Liz Weaver, Lori Hewson, Mary Pickering, and Ana Gonzalez Guerrero on the incredible impact engaging diverse community partners and philanthropy can have on fighting climate change. https://hubs.ly/H0B8dM40

Have you ever thought about whose role is it to build community? Whose role is it to fix the problems? Is it government, maybe social service programs? Is it groups and associations? Sometimes, I think that communities are looking for a superhero to swoop in and fix all their problems. But this superhero does not exist. It takes a mind-shift to put citizens at the center of your work. https://hubs.ly/H0B4cV40

Living History: A Developmental Evaluation Tool, via Cameron Norman "Living History provides the ‘backstory’ to the present situation and provides a means of developing a baseline, which is critical for evaluating change." https://hubs.ly/H0zV0gc0

On September 8th, 2020, Statistics Canada updated the Dimensions of Poverty Hub, Canada’s official poverty dashboard for Opportunity for All, Canada’s first poverty reduction strategy. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/H0xvZvF0

We co-developed this guide with youth leaders and representatives from youth-serving organizations, we hope this will help you to figure out your next steps forward to engage youth to work together for community change. https://hubs.ly/H0zNhNc0

As the world faces the multiplying forces of a biological pandemic, an economic meltdown, and a social uprising around racial equality, the question of what kind of leadership is needed to guide us through these challenges has taken on life and death importance. Join Bill Fulton and Jodi Hardin from The Civic Canopy in Denver, Colorado in conversation with Liz Weaver of the Tamarack Institute as they share their reflections on the leadership challenges and opportunities presented during uncertain and disruptive times. https://hubs.ly/H0xlF0l0

This week, learn from Adaoma Patterson, Kate Gunn, and Kerry Nolan about their on-the-ground leadership experiences on what it takes to move the needle on poverty. They will discuss the importance of building a cross-Canadian learning community and working towards ending poverty in Canada. https://hubs.ly/H0zDzQz0

We're excited to launch a new event - Collective Impact 3.0: Designing a Movement for Change. Join Sylvia Cheuy and Liz weaver for this virtual workshop, and explore the strategies needed to design your Collective Impact initiative for maximum impact. Learn about the key elements that enable the Collective Impact Framework to fulfill its potential as a catalyst for large-scale change. https://hubs.ly/H0xg7Mx0

Complex challenges of the moment, like the COVID-19 crisis, climate change, rising economic inequality and gender-based violence call for new ways of leading. These new approaches demand leaders to move away from traditional hero style leadership towards relational approaches and emergence. While systems practice has risen in prominence over the last five years, it is often seen as rooted in western academia, and inaccessible. https://hubs.ly/H0x4ltd0

We have a few spots left at our popular Turf, Trust, and Virtual Collaboration. Join the over 200 changemakers that have taken this workshop in the past 6 months and equip yourself with simple, practical tools and approaches for building trust in a virtual setting. Featuring Liz Weaver, this workshop is designed to help you bring these tools back into their collaborative efforts and renew engagement and shared ownership. https://hubs.ly/H0w-W7K0

Save the date for a new Collective Impact 3.0 virtual workshop that we'll be hosting on two dates this fall - November 24 and December 10. Join Tamarack’s Sylvia Cheuy and Liz Weaver and dive into the collective impact approach and how you can use it to enhance the impact of community change efforts. Save the date using this linked page to be the first to access registration when the event goes live. To keep the learning experience as interactive as possible, we're limiting registration to 60 learners for each workshop. https://hubs.ly/H0wXqXx0

As practitioners of community change, an essential first step is to critically reflect on how we self-educate and integrate reconciliatory approaches into our own practice before we can effectively ask others in our communities to do the same. https://hubs.ly/H0wtKgk0

Join Tatiana Fraser and Rachel Sinha of Systems Sanctuary, along with Tamarack Institute's Pamela Teitelbaum, as they explore key capacities, capabilities, and strategies for systems leadership. https://hubs.ly/H0wbWTQ0

In this webinar, Diana Renner shares her thoughts about being at the threshold of change and ambiguity. She helps us shift perspectives from being stuck to move toward paying attention to what is happening around us and building purposeful action through creative and generative questions. https://hubs.ly/H0vZgLl0

Join Liz Weaver to equip yourself with ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact. Each workshop is limited to 50 learners, so we encourage you to register soon if you are interested. https://hubs.ly/H0vTPrn0

For this month's edition of Engage! we're looking at the role of learning in pursuing equity inclusion, and systems change, as well as community-led approaches to pandemic recovery. Click through and explore all of the practical tools and resources we've collected for this new edition. https://hubs.ly/H0vCJ4-0

"Loneliness multiples the pain of poverty, social connectedness helps to heal it." Learn more about the connection between Poverty and Loneliness in our most recent podcast featuring Kim Samuel, founder of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness and Tamarack Institute's Alison Homer. https://hubs.ly/H0vt3gS0

We've added one more date for our Turf, Trust, and Virtual Collaboration workshop with Liz Weaver - October 29, 2020. Join Liz Weaver to equip yourself with ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact. Each workshop is limited to 50 learners, so we encourage you to register soon if you are interested. https://hubs.ly/H0vpGJm0