The Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project has been out in the community this summer setting up neighbourhood “living rooms” and chatting with residents about opportunities to connect with their neighbours and…
Playing for Keeps is developing healthier, more active, and better connected communities – through play! If your neighbourhood has lost touch with play and fun, you’ve come to the right…
Resilientville is a role-playing exercise developed by the Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation which advances participant awareness of the short and long term benefits of problem solving at the…
The Step Up to Leadership curriculum intertwines two learning goals: To present content learning about specific topics a novice board member will need to know To provide a learning environment…
NeighborGoods is a safe community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends. Need a ladder? Borrow it from your neighbor. Have a bike collecting…
A bridge between research and action. For years, we at TRIG’s Social Capital Project have been hearing from climate practitioners that this is what they need. Those in government and…
The goal of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance’s Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS) Project is to study the scaling out and scaling up of innovations that re-localize the economy…
This blog post explores what exactly this notion of ‘resilience’ is; what about the topic is making it so popular within the context of city planning; and what connections ‘resilience’…
In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities and nations? Welcome to…
As part of the implementation of the Neighborhood Economic Development (NED) Strategy, the City of Portland and Portland Development Commission have established the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative (NPI). The goal of…
There is a new worldwide movement developing, made up of people with a different vision for their local communities. They know that movements are not organizations, institutions or systems. Movements…
The Community Tool Box was created to help people build healthier communities and bring about the changes they envision. We provide educational modules and tools to help people work together…