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Date: January 14th 2021
Author:
Beth Kanter and Alize Sherman for Stanford Social Innovation Review
Description:
Building Connected Communities from the Inside Out requires an intentional look at how organizational culture impacts the wellbeing of its staff. This ar...
Tags: Organizational Culture, Create Connected Communities from the Inside Out, Light, Article
Date: January 7th 2021
Author:
Description:
A critical understanding of context and what people are passionate about and working towards is fundamental to successful community building. This in depth tool outlines a process to surface the strengths of a community and the context in which those s...
Tags: Complexity, Emergence, Build on Everyone's Strengths, Learn Together, Medium, Handout / Tool, Fostering Grassroots Leadership, Resilience, Urban Planning
Date: January 7th 2021
Author:
Description:
All community building happens in the context of evolving and changing systems. Understanding the systems and how they affect your work can be critical in developing successful strategies. This tool helps groups identify systems, trends and patterns an...
Tags: Emergence, Resilience, Facilitate Collaborative Processes, Work at Multiple Scales, Medium, Handout / Tool, Climate Action, Poverty Reduction, Workforce Development
Date: January 7th 2021
Author:
Description:
The Connected Community Approach is predicated on the idea of local: planning and action at the community level. This video introduces Elinor Ostrom and her compelling arguments for local democracies, economies and decision making. <...
Tags: Place Making, Resilience, Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing, Work at Multiple Scales, Medium, Article, Video, Poverty Reduction, Resilience, Urban Planning
Date: January 7th 2021
Author:
Description:
Allegory* is a powerful tool to understand complex social issues. In this Ted Talk, Camara Jones uses allegory* to help deconstruct systemic racism, understand how it saps the strength of our communities and how we can take up the call to action to cha...
Tags: Equity, Resilience, Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing, Work at Multiple Scales, Medium, Video
Date: February 28th 2019
Author: Centre for Connected Communities Staff
Description: Trust is about relationships. The process of building strong, open, and trusting relationships should be an outcome of a connected community initiative, as an important foundation to achieving other deliverables and outputs. A community backbone organiza...
Tags: Emergence, Make Community Building Visual, Embrace the Messiness, Light, Article
Date: February 28th 2019
Author: Anne Gloger, Ewa Cerda Llanos, James Iveniuk and Ewa Modlinska
Description:
The Connected Community Approach was created using insights from a variety of theories and practices including Asset Based Community development, Collective Impact, Systems and Complexity theories. This article describes the ways in which CCA takes the...
Tags: Complexity, Collaboration, Learn Together, Heavy, Article
Date: February 20th 2019
Author:
Centre for Connected Communities
Description:
This document demonstrates how a community backbone organization adds value to place based interventions and initiatives by strengthening social fabric.
"In the Connected Community Approach (CCA), a community backbone organization (aka a...
Tags: Resilience, Complexity, Make Community Building Visual, Build Creative Infrastructure, Medium, Article, Report
Date: February 6th 2019
Author: Ontario Nonprofit Network
Description: Some of the best community building originates with an informal network of people. Eventually, questions of governance will be raised. As an informal group, it is difficult to raise funds and hire staff, yet creating an incorporated entity, policies and f...
Tags: Build Creative Infrastructure, Heavy, Report
Date: February 28th 2019
Author: Alexis Eastman
Description: Shared platforms are innovative governance models that can support community building. This infographic provides a visual summary of what a shared platform is and how it works.
Tags: Organizational Culture, Collaboration, Build Creative Infrastructure, Light, Handout / Tool, Image
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