At Tamarack – I lead the Vibrant Communities Canada initiative. Vibrant Communities are cities across Canada with place-based, multi-sector leadership roundtables focused on reducing poverty. To learn more about Vibrant Communities visit: http://www.vibrantcommunities.ca/.
Recent Posts From Liz Weaver
- January 30, 2019
Building a Framework for Change
This article is cross-posted from Tamarack's January 2019 issue of Engage!Collective impact (CI), a framework for influencing systems change, was launched in t…
- December 9, 2016
Collective Impact 3.0
As part of Tamarack’s 2016 Community Change Series, Tamarack thought leader, Mark Cabaj, and myself decided to review the collective impact framework with a ne…
- March 27, 2016
Collective Impact Backbones – Different Approaches and a lot of Complexity
A closer look at the diversity of collective impact efforts reveals a diversity of backbone infrastructure designs as well. Depending on the size and scope of …
- March 19, 2015
Turf, Trust and the Collaboration Spectrum
This post was originally published in the Tamarack Institute's Communities Collaborating blog on January 30, 2015.This week was bookended with facilitated disc…
- February 18, 2015
Moving the Needle on Poverty – A Made in Canada Approach
Beginning in 2002, collective impact roundtables in 13 cities across Canada began a consolidated effort to reduce poverty for low income citizens. This movemen…
- August 4, 2014
Vibrant Communities – Getting to Shared Outcomes
A very interesting meeting happened in Montreal in July. The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Lucie and Andre Chagnon Foun…