Community Building

Case study | A place to call home: Cultivating belonging in housing co-operatives

CHF Canada and the Tamarack Institute completed a second cohort of our housing co-op community building program in May 2024. This partnership seeks to support housing co-op members in leading projects within their communities to foster a sense of belonging and respect, and to cultivate relationships between members. Each participating co-op chose to pursue unique initiatives, and each community identified unique strengths and challenges along the way.

This case study introduces each co-op, and provides insight into their collective and individual experiences in community building.

Outcomes Diary Tool

To effectively monitor changes as they are occurring, a simple tool has been developed called an Outcomes Diary. The diary, developed and used by the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction (HRPR), a cross-sector community collaborative planning table, was used to document progress across three domains: changes impacting individuals and families; changes in community capacity and changes in policy and systems.

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Key Milestone Report

Continuous communication is a critical condition of collective impact. It’s aim is to maximize engagement across the collective efforts and ensure that all partners understand how their individual efforts are contributing to the collective results.

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Collaborative Governance Framework

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The Collaboration Spectrum Tool

This tool will help groups decide where they are on the spectrum of collaboration.

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Wheel of Involvement

The Wheel of Involvement is a useful way to engage attendees at a workshop or consultation to quickly and easily provide you with input regarding their own desired level of involvement in the opportunities and work of your group going forward.

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