Featured Aides for Action

A Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Using Strategic Drivers by Garry Loewen (May 2009) - The Strategic Driver Approach is a technique to assist people interested in adopting a comprehensive approach to reducing poverty to think and act more holistically when developing strategies.

Poverty Compendium: A Tool for Communities by Garry Loewen (April 2009) - This guide is designed to answer the question “When groups and organizations set about to reduce poverty in their community, what concrete actions do they actually take to achieve that result?”

Collaboration on Policy: A Manual developed by the Community-Government Collaboration on Policy by Sherri Torjman, Anne Makhoul et al. (April 2009) - This aide for action is designed to provide a better understanding of collaboration on policy and draws from the experience and personalities of ten individuals who comprised a community of practice.

Collaboration sur les politiques : Un manuel produit par les partenaires de la Collaboration communauté-gouvernement sur les politiques by Sherri Torjman, Anne Makhoul et al. (April 2009)

Comprehensive Strategies for Deep and Durable Outcomes by Eric Leviten-Reid (April 2009) - The purpose of this paper is to examine the idea of ‘comprehensiveness’ in order to clarify some of the conceptual and practical issues it involves.

Community Roles in Policy by Sherri Torjman (January 2009) - This paper explores the various ways in which communities are engaged in policy through formulating, modifying or seeking improved access to public programs and services.

Friendraising: Raising Funds, Finding Friends To Realize Bold Community Visions (2005) - This workbook provides practical and proven ideas for raising the key leadership and funding support necessary for community change.

Creating Canadian Movements for Change (October 2005) - Can you deliberately create a positive movement for change in Canada? This report shares the learning generated from the input of contacts from across the country as well as an extensive library and web search.

The Poverty Matrix - Understanding Poverty in Your Community (Second Edition) (2004) - This tool helps you to map poverty in your community and to assess where to focus your poverty reduction efforts.

Making the Case: Clarifying Ways Businesses Benefit from Poverty Reduction Strategies (2004) - The Needs-Features-Benefits Framework detailed in this guide is designed to assist convenors as they think through the case for a business to become involved in a concrete poverty reduction initiative.

Making an Impact: Screening and Selecting Opportunities for Poverty Reduction (2004) - This aide for action is meant to assist community-wide collaborations to be as strategic as possible in selecting the strategies and initiatives they would like to employ to substantially reduce poverty.

Convening a Comprehensive, Multisectoral Effort to Reduce Poverty: A Primer (2003) - Examines the best practice of comprehensive, multisectoral local efforts to reduce poverty and describes the key features of a convening organization.

Our Growing Understanding of Community Engagement (2003) - This report provides a brief explanation of our approach to community engagement and the resources we’ve found that illustrate ways of creating empowered communities.