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Stoking the Fire to Make Change: Supporting Policy Advocacy by Community-based Organizations and the Communities They Serve in Winnipeg
February 24, 2025 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper, Yutaka Dirks
This study examines how community based organizations in Winnipeg support community and grassroots policy advocacy to address the needs of their participants. Results from a survey and interviews with staff working at CBOs show that Winnipeg’s non-prof …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Social Inclusion
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From repairs to rent hikes: Tenant perspectives on above-guideline rent increases in West Broadway
February 12, 2025 | Authored by: Amanda Emms, Sarah Cooper, Indira Cowkur
Feeling like the system is rigged against them was a common theme for the tenants interviewed in this Manitoba Research Alliance study focused on above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) in West Broadway. In a neighbourhood of 93 percent renters, these te …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Featured, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Mapping Colonial Harms: Social Emergencies in Northern Manitoba First Nations
December 2, 2024 | Authored by: Jonathan Meikle, Elizabeth Comack
Social emergencies relating to deaths caused by suicide, violence, drug misuse/poisoning, community fires, and/or health-care services have been declared in northern First Nations in Manitoba and, in some communities, multiple times. While the definiti …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Examining the Collective Impact Model in Winnipeg’s Non-Profit Homeless-Serving Sector
November 21, 2024 | Authored by: Erica Charron
The seeds of this study were sowed by a group of executive directors from community-based organizations (CBOs), both Indigenous and non-Indigenous agencies, in Winnipeg’s inner city who raised concerns about the systemic barriers impeding their work to …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Minosin Kikiwa – “A Good Home”: Indigenous Older Adults in Winnipeg
October 29, 2024 | Authored by: Indigenous Seniors Research Committee
A growing segment of Indigenous populations in Canada are over 55. In urban areas like Winnipeg, this includes many long-time city residents. The later life situations of Indigenous older adults, though by no means identical, can differ in important wa …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
