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popular tele-learning seminars, including Vibrant Communities
and Movements for Change. Delivered to your desktop,
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Tamarack Podcast Series
Vibrant Communities Series
Action for Neighbourhood Change (ANC) Series
Practical Visionaries
There’s a special skill required to both dream of a different future for communities and create the means to get there. Each day we encounter people who work this way – these practical visionaries want to change the world, one community at a time, one issue at a time, and they work in innovative ways to make that happen.
In 2008, Tamarack has the good fortune of engaging some of these visionaries in conversation. This podcast series captures those conversations.
Podcast URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TamarackPracticalVisionaries
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Communities
Collaborating for Impact
Bringing people in communities to collaboration
is an emerging field of practice. Tamarack believes that solutions
to complex problems will require engaged communities working
together in new and innovative ways.
The idea for this series came out of Tamarack's
Communities Collaborating Institute. The inaugural offering
of the Institute, held in September 2006, brought together
over 70 leading collaborators from Canada (and New Zealand!)
to share the challenges, joys, frustrations, and the "wicked
questions" that emerge when working in a multisectoral
fashion on a complex community issue.
The ideas that mattered most to those 70
plus leaders, ideas related to resilience, the ingredients
of success, implications for organizations and leadership,
and getting to impact, have inspired the session topics of
Tamarack's 2007 tele-learning seminar series.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/CC4I.rss
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Movements
for Change
Concerned citizens and engaged organizations
across Canada are working to create a more just and caring
society. They are developing new and innovative ways of working
together to create solutions to the complex problems facing
their communities. They are launching movements for change.
Tamarack believes that the way we work is as important as
what we are working on. We also recognize that we, and many
of our partners, work like an organization, but we think like
a movement. That’s why, in 2006, we’re focusing
our efforts on learning more about movements for change, specifically
movements that are born in a local context but grow to become
national or international social change efforts.
We hope that our Movements for Change learning theme will
inspire and encourage your excitement about the potential
of large-scale, sustainable social change in our communities
and country!
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/M4C.rss
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Learn to Include, Include to Learn
How can community collaborations facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership structures and activities - both in grassroots groups and more formal roundtables?
How can we utilize the skills that low-income residents bring to leadership roles, and assist them in building their capacity?
This three-part series looks at utilizing the skills that low-income residents bring to leadership roles.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/L2I.rss
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Funding
Lasting Change in Communities
Vibrant Communities believes that creating
lasting community change requires a long-term, sustained effort,
and a place-based approach from both the people creating the
change and from the funders.
This two-part tele-learning series defines
an “embedded funder” and examines the successes,
challenges and the impact of funders who make a long-term,
place-based and hands-on approach to funding community change.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/FLC.rss
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Poverty
& Poverty Reduction
Poverty is a complex problem, and like all
such problems, it poses challenges even in terms of how it
is framed. A wide range of factors are involved, and stakeholders
have different perspectives and priorities, leading to many
different conceptions of poverty.
The Poverty and Poverty Reduction learning
series brought Vibrant Communities learners together in the
spring of 2007 to examine alternative approaches to conceiving
poverty and poverty reduction in order to strengthen the capacity
of communities to make choices about how best to frame, unfold,
measure and communicate about local poverty reduction efforts.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/PR.rss
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Government Engagement
The nature of public sector engagement in
collaborative, comprehensive initiatives varies from one community
to another. How might we understand such variation? What might
each community's experience of public sector engagement, and
the experiences of government officials themselves, tell us
about the potential space for collaboration?
In the spring of 2007, the Vibrant Communities
Government Learning Circle (GLC) convened a five-part learning
series highlighting the unique ways in which the public sector
is engaged in Vibrant Communities initiatives.
Through engaging with these community "stories,"
government learners deepened their understanding of key features
of government-community collaboration, including governance
arrangements, ways to create an "enabling environment,"
and how to achieve concrete results.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/GE.rss
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Government &
Community
For government to provide leadership in service
of communities, both institutional and personal commitment
is needed to listen, learn, see and respond to what communities
have to say.
In the spring of 2006, Vibrant Communities
launched a new Government Learning Circle (GLC) to allow government
learners from all levels and portfolios to engage together
to learn about "what works" in collaborating for
community change. In this three-part series, GLC participants
explored the concept of government leadership in service of
communities and examined some of the challenges faced by government
officials in providing this leadership.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/GL.rss
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Policy
Change From the Ground Up
Can communities influence public policy?
What does it take to improve government/community collaboration
on policy issues? How are communities using policy change
as a strategy for poverty reduction?
In this five-part learning series, community
practitioners from across Canada come together to explore
the opportunities and challenges associated with community-based
policy making. Learn more about the process of community involvement
in policy making and successful local policy initiatives in
the areas of income security, neighbourhood revitalization,
and housing.
Note: This series has be concluded.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/PC.rss
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Social
Justice Grant Making
Social justice grant making aims to get to
the root of our toughest problems. By addressing underlying
causes rather than simply treating symptoms, funders with
a social justice focus endeavour to bring about change in
systems, institutions and attitudes to allow full social and
economic participation by all Canadians.
In January and February of 2006, local and
national funders and contributors to Vibrant Communities came
together to learn about and discuss social justice grant making.
This two-part tele-learning series provides information about
how a commitment to do grant making work from a social justice
perspective can enable funders to address the root causes
of poverty and find long-term solutions to pervasive community
problems.
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/SJG.rss
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Neighbourhood
Revitalization and Community Building
When you’re blazing trails in neighbourhood
initiatives, it’s sometimes hard to envision the path
ahead. However, there are people and organizations pioneering
this work across the country, and beyond. Action for Neighbourhood
Change (ANC) is engaging several of these key individuals
in dialogue about their practice, their accumulated wisdom,
and the challenges they face in doing this work.
In the spirit of sharing and learning together,
ANC has invited participation in a series of six tele-learning
seminars, from Vibrant Communities and from United Ways across
Canada, as well as involving the five ANC neighbourhoods.
The result is a dynamic conversation which we have captured
and animated online, with speakers and participants alike
sharing their rich depth of experience in neighbourhood revitalization!
Podcast URL: http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/multimedia/Podcasts/ANC.rss
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