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The Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction (HRPR) was co-convened by the City of Hamilton and Hamilton Community Foundation in May 2005 to understand Hamilton's high poverty levels, focus the community's attention on poverty and begin to find solutions. The Roundtable is chaired by Mark Chamberlain, and supported by a small staff. In March 2007, the Roundtable launched Starting Point Strategies as the road map to achieving a shared community vision of Making Hamilton the Best Place to Raise a Child. Strategies are matched to five critical points of investment as children progress through life:
- quality early learning and parenting
- skills through education, activity and recreation
- targeted skills development at the post-secondary level
- employment
- asset building and wealth creation
For more information on the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, visit their website here.
Voting to Reduce Poverty
Provincial elections in several provinces this fall have sparked innovative approaches to voter and candidate engagement. In Ontario, Opportunities Waterloo Region encourages voter turn-out and provides info on candidates and issues through WaterlooRegionVotes, while the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction set their local candidates a twitter challenge - asking them to tweet to support social assistance reform. Meanwhile, Poverty Free Ontario has connected and mobilized communities with a common platform. In Manitoba, Make Poverty History asked all parties to commit to a poverty plan, with actions on housing, income security, education, neighbourhoods and communities and transportation.
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