The Future is Collective Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 2025

The Communities Ending Poverty (CEP) network Currently has over 80 member community collaboratives working across more than 400 municipalities in Canada. The Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYP) network Has worked across 20 small, medium, Indigenous, rural and remote communities, and engaged more than 63,000 youth, 6,000 local leaders, 1,784 government representatives and 2,379 youth-serving organizations since 2020.The Communities Building Belonging (CBB) network Is currently supporting 45 collaboratives working across Canada to make community essential and increase the sense of belonging for individuals. The Community Climate Transitions (CCT) network Has been recognized by the Government of Canada in its Voluntary National Review17 for localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Canada. They are currently supporting 43 local collaboratives to move forward actions for climate mitigation and adaptation that centre equity. Living wages Tamarack worked alongside the CEP network to facilitate a national dialogue about living wages in Canada, leading to the development of standalone Living Wage network. They shared the learnings from several local living wage prototypes and collaborated to create a national methodology for calculating living wages. This work has contributed to policy wins such as relief benefits during COVID-19 and increases to minimum wages across Canada based on living wage information and campaigns. Community belonging Tamarack is currently advocating for a national plan to integrate community belonging into discussions about national economics and quality of life. Tamarack is working with communities to establish a blueprint for this strategy as well as advocating to governments for how this effort could address the epidemic of loneliness and social isolation that is impacting individuals, communities and society at large. Poverty reduction strategy Tamarack partnered with the Government of Canada and its Networks for Change to convene 33 Community Conversations to inform Canada’s first poverty reduction strategy.18 Canada’s poverty reduction strategy created an official poverty line for the country, created a National Advisory Council on Poverty, developed a measurement and tracking system for the plan, and set important targets for poverty reduction (reduce poverty by 50% by 2030, as an example). Tamarack continues to work with the government and communities to localize the poverty reductions strategy and to translate knowledge between communities and the federal government.Impact 17. Government of Canada. (2023). 2023 Voluntary National Review Spotlight: Partners and stakeholders actions to localize the SDGs. https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/agenda-2030/voluntary-national-review/2023-report/annex-a.html. 18. Government of Canada. (2022). Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy – What we heard about poverty so far. https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/poverty-reduction/reports/what-we-heard.html. Networks for change impact Policy impact1 million households have risen out of poverty since 2001 aided by Tamarack.500 municipalities have been engaged by Tamarack as part of 180 collaboratives working across Canada. The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 67