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Thursday, February 25, 2016
by Omar Elsharkawy, CFICE Admin RA The Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project has many community partners across Canada and one organization that CFICE’s Poverty Reduction hub has partnered with is Station 20 West. Station 20 West is a Community Enterprise Centre (CEC), located in the heart of Saskatoon’s west-side... More
Friday, January 15, 2016
by Amanda Lefrancois, CFICE Poverty Hub RA Students are playing their part in Windsor's Poverty Reduction movement in many different ways. Below are just a few examples of how students are making a difference. Charity Is Good, Justice Is Better: Mobilizing Campus and Community against Poverty On October 2, 2015, Pathway to Potential (P2P)... More
Thursday, November 26, 2015
by Julie Bourassa, CFICE Volunteer It’s hard to make a living. Especially when minimum wage does not guarantee a decent quality of life. It is for this reason that the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction – along with many poverty-focused community groups – are advocating for a living wage. “People have both physical needs,... More
Thursday, October 8, 2015
A new report detailing the food and housing insecurity issues being faced by the community of Peterborough was recently released by Carleton and Trent University academics in association with the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at Wilfrid Laurier University. Entitled Food Access, Housing Security and Community Connections: A Case Study of... More
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
FPA Voices offers concise, compelling, and thought-provoking profiles of the people who make FPA such an engaging and creative place to work. Highlights in our February Issue: Student Emily Chan brings Rwandan friends home. Alumna Natasha Pei works to end poverty. Researcher Karim Karim seeks examples of Muslim/Western cooperation. We would... More
Monday, February 9, 2015
Campus community research partnerships are exciting and challenging, says Liz Weaver, Vice-President of Tamarack. For the last three years, Liz also co-led the poverty reduction hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement, or CFICE. Under her co-leadership, the hub researched big issues in poverty, including living wage, the stigma of... More
Monday, January 26, 2015
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness invites chapter submissions for an edited volume: Exploring Effective Systems Responses to Homelessness. We are interested in research about service integration at the local level, broader systems integration work involving the homelessness sector and mainstream services, and horizontal and vertical models... More
Thursday, January 8, 2015
The Tamarack Learning Center highlighted an article about CFICE entitled "Community Connections". This Carleton Alumni article features the Poverty Reduction hub and their project that tackles the opportunities and challenges around implementing a living wage. Please click here to go to the full... More
Friday, August 22, 2014
Name: Mary MacKeigan Years with Opportunities Waterloo Region: 10 years Position: Executive Director Years with CFICE: 2 years (since inception) Position with CFICE: Poverty Reduction Hub- Project Partner Background experience/education: B.A., Social Services Honours Diploma, over 25 years working in the social service field; and first-hand... More
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Almost two years ago Tamarack launched its 1,000 Conversations Campaign to explore people’s experiences of community across Canada. This journey has introduced us to many incredible people who shared beautiful stories of communities coming together in times of need and opportunity. These stories, and the insights they have generated, have been... More
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Author: Ted Jackson On September 24, Liz Weaver animated an all-day Community Collaboration Forum in London, Ontario. Attended by 170 participants from the non-profit, university and government sectors, the event was organized by the Pillar Nonprofit Network. The event included a panel entitled “Putting Collective Impact into Practice,”... More
Friday, September 6, 2013
CFICE’s Poverty Reduction Hub has been busy. After a busy year of working with partners in Hamilton, Waterloo, Saint John, and nationally, the Hub has put together a detailed presentation of its work in 2012-2013. You can access the Hub’s slide show on the Vibrant Comminities website. This work was presented at the CUExpo conference in... More
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