Victoria Quality of Life CHALLENGE: HR Options for Action (March 2007)
This booklet shares 50 actions employers can take to benefit
their employees, the community and their businesses. The
actions range from low cost one-time actions to more costly
ongoing employee benefits.
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Shared Space - The Communities Agenda
The goal of the communities agenda is to promote resilience – in order to build strong and vibrant communities. Resilience is the result of strategic actions taken in four independent, but associated, clusters. These relate to sustenance, adaptation, engagement and opportunity. The four resilience clusters comprise the substance of the communities agenda.
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Can Communities Reduce Poverty?
This is the question that the Community Opportunities Development Association (now known as Lutherwood CODA) in Waterloo Region has set out to answer. It has embarked upon Opportunities 2000 (OP2000) – an innovative project to reduce poverty. OP2000 will seek to expand the focus of existing community services by incorporating an opportunities dimension.
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Understanding Living Wage Research Report (December 2003)
The Calgary Living Wage Action Group commissioned this Report. The purpose of this research project was to develop a document that would help local groups better understand how a Living Wage campaign might be part of a broad based sustained poverty reduction initiative. To this end, this Report includes detailed information about ten Living Wage campaigns across the United States as well as preliminary information about the initiative in Waterloo, Ontario. This information is combined with local economic research and demographic information on the working poor in Calgary.
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The Living Wage Learning Initiative (Caledon Community Story May 2005)
In Canada, Vibrant Communities organizers in Niagara Region, Waterloo, BC’s Capital Region, Surrey, Edmonton and Calgary are continuing to explore and pursue projects designed to improve wages and work-related benefits for low-paid employees. In response to interest in the subject, Vibrant Communities established a pan-Canadian Living Wage Learning Initiative – a series of tele-learning seminars in 2004-05 which explored the lessons of the living wage movement in the US and their possible application to a Canadian context.
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VCC - Awareness, Engagement and Policy Change (Caledon Community Story January 2006)
The United Way of Calgary and Area's slogan says: "For a city to be truly great, it must be great for everyone."
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Fair Fares Calgary Celebrates Reduced Fare Transit Passes (Caledon Community Story November 2005)
For the first time ever, some 2,000 Calgary residents whose income is derived from Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) benefits were issued reduced rate monthly transit passes on August 1, 2005.
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Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped Public Policy Initiative (Caledon Community Story May 2005)
In the summer of 2003, staff at United Way of Calgary and Area (one of two co-convenors of Vibrant Communities Calgary) began a 20-month process to pilot a public policy initiative that would help Calgary nonprofit sector build and improve relations with the provincial government.
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Calgary Public Policy Roundtable: “Building Community Capacity and Addressing Policy Issues” - A New Policy Framework for AISH (September 2004)
This New Policy Framework for AISH has been developed by eight not-for-profit organizations in Calgary, and endorsement of this proposed framework is limited to these eight agencies.
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The External Costs of Poverty (June 2004)
This report was compiled in response to a request from United Way of Calgary and Area for information on the costs of poverty in Calgary. We provide an estimate of the ‘external’ costs of poverty as a contribution towards constructing a compelling case for sustained poverty reduction in the city. By external costs we mean costs incurred by people other than those who live in poverty.
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Vibrant Communities Calgary Update (August 2004)
Vibrant Communities is a Pan-Canadian Learning Community convened and supported by Tamarack - An Institute for Community Engagement, Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.
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The Way Forward - Community Dialogue Findings (January 2004)
As part of an ongoing effort to stay in touch with the needs and priorities of Calgarians,
United Way of Calgary and Area conducted significant research in 2003 to determine the social issues people consider the most pressing. A wide range of people were consulted, and Calgarians had the opportunity to be heard.
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Vibrant Communities Calgary: Creating Local Conditions for Successful Poverty Reduction (December 2003)
Since the fall of 2002, United Way of Calgary and Area and MCC Employment Development have worked to build a strong foundation for a collaborative, multisectoral Sustained Poverty Reduction initiative for the city of Calgary.
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