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Access to Identification for Low-Income Manitobans
October 10, 2017 | Authored by: Ellen Smirl
Government-issued identification (ID) is essential to gain access to a wide range of government entitlements, commercial services and financial systems. Lack of ID on the other hand, represents a critical barrier that prevents low-income Manitobans fro …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Minoayawin: Manitoba Flood Healing Voices
October 3, 2017 | Authored by: Myrle Ballard
The Interlake Reserves Tribal Council (IRTC) partnered with Dr. Myrle Ballard from the University of Manitoba to facilitate an Elders Gathering to discuss, determine, and share strategies for First Nation Peoples to heal from the human-made flood in 20 …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Offering our gifts, partnering for change: Decolonizing experimentation in Winnipeg-based settler archives
October 3, 2017 | Authored by: Sarah Story
Since the nineteen-fifties, Indigenous residents of Winnipeg, Manitoba have conceptualized and developed distinct strategies in response to the impacts of settler colonialism. Roughly seventy organizations have been established by and for Indigenous pe …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Social Impact Bonds and the Financing of Child Welfare
July 10, 2017 | Authored by: John Loxley
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new way of financing social services in Canada. They differ from the normal way of financing social services in that they are funded initially by private sector businesses or foundations, which are reimburse …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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A Family Living Wage for Manitoba: 2016-2017 update
July 5, 2017 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Jesse Hajer, James Langridge
The 2016–17 Living Wage for Winnipeg is $14.54/ hour; for Brandon it is $14.55 and for Thompson it is $15.28. This is the amount needed for a family of four with two parents working full time to cover basic necessities, support healthy development of c …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
