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A substantial and sustained reduction in the number of Calgarians living in poverty.
VCC exists to ignite new community action to create and implement bold solutions that reduce and prevent poverty through collaboration and education.
VCC develops and supports creative and innovative poverty reduction strategies in Calgary, knowing that our combined diversity of experience and expertise will achieve results none of us could achieve individually.
Vibrant Communities Calgary (VCC) has chosen to focus on raising the profile of poverty in Calgary and challenging what it sees as the prevailing view of poverty –namely, that it results from individual behaviour and can be overcome by people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Instead, VCC believes that there are important systemic factors that contribute to poverty and that the whole community has a vital role to play in changing these conditions. By increasing public understanding about the root causes of poverty, VCC hopes to spark new community action which will achieve a substantial and ongoing reduction in
the number of Calgarians who live in poverty.
Read the VCC Theory of Change Summary (new window)
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