We think these resources will be helpful tools for community-based
poverty reduction projects. They lay out the whole process
for you, step-by-step. But don’t feel trapped by them!
They make suggestions and point the way, but please, adapt
them to the needs of your community.
Cost of Poverty and the Value of Investment (Canada)
This site, provided by the National Council of Welfare, looks at how much poverty costs us in other areas of spending like health, education and justice. NCW has gathered resources into a Comprehensive Bibliography, which is divided into three main sections: Canadian studies, American studies and International studies, and they also link to Ten Top Picks.
Low Income Cut-offs 2007, Low Income Measures 2006 (Canada)
This report from Statistics Canada Low incorporates a detailed description of the methods used to arrive at both income cut-offs (LICOs) and low income measures (LIMs). It also explains how base years are defined and how LICOs are updated using the Consumer Price Index. Download the full report here. [Source: Statistics Canada]
Poverty USA - Education
Centre
This education
centre offered by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development provides suggestions and activities to teach elementary
students, high school students, and adults about poverty and
how they can reduce it. Poverty USA is a powerful website,
compiling poverty
facts, success
stories, and the voices of real
people living in poverty.
Techniques for Community
Recovery & Renewal (Canada)
This guide
offered by the Centre for Community Enterprise describes, with the help of real-life examples, how communities
can reverse and repair damage done by poverty by using Community
Economic Development, a comprehensive, long-term process of
development which uses many community engagement principles.
It covers planning, research, and implementation, plus special
sections on particularly important sectors like health and
culture. The Centre for Community Enterprise has many other
helpful resources, from planning guides to benchmarks and
indicators for evaluation. Their online
bookstore is a great place to look.
Poverty Reduction How-To Guide (USA)
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) researches and evaluates poverty reduction schemes all
over America (see what they’ve done in our “Effectiveness”
section). They’ve put all their how-to
guides here in one place. Most are guidelines for helping
people in poverty find jobs, but some also use community building.
Pathways out of Poverty (USA)
The Mott Foundation’s Pathways out of Poverty program
is one of our favourite examples of a community-based poverty
reduction program. Mott concentrates on four goals: Improve
Community Education; Expand Economic Opportunity; Build Organized
Communities; and Other Special Projects. They focus on long-term,
sustainable development, education, community empowerment,
and collaborative solutions. This Snapshot
of the program describes their grant-making process and how
they decide which initiatives to support.
Have we missed something? Know a great resource
we should include here? Email us at tamarack@tamarackcommunity.ca.
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