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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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The High Cost of Austerity in Adult Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Earlier this summer, the Director of an adult basic education program located outside Winnipeg contacted me to say that the latest round of cuts to provincial government funding for her program would result in a former full-time position being reduced …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Austerity and Advanced Education in Manitoba
October 4, 2024 | Authored by: Scott Forbes
In 2016 the Manitoba PCs were elected on an election platform that included moderate fiscal restraint: simply hold growth in spending below the rate of growth in the economy and the budget, which was in deficit, would be balanced over two terms in offi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Adult Basic Education in Manitoba: “It’s Like, Life Changing!”
June 26, 2024 | Authored by:
What could lead people to say such things as, “I can physically, like on every level, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, feel myself changing and transforming,” and “my peers, they see a difference, they see me more open and, you know, thi …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Art as Medicine: Utilizing Creative Arts and the Medicine Wheel as a Tool to Wellness
March 4, 2024 | Authored by: Nyla Comeau
Art as Medicine: Utilizing Creative Arts and the Medicine Wheel as a Tool to Wellness comprised of a six-week workshop with focus on self-love, self-worth, and self-esteem from an Indigenous perspective; self-worth being derived from a place of wholene …
Grant: Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities - 2020-2027
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
