A better world is possible. SHIFT Collaborative offers strategy, coaching, training and tools to support learning and leadership development, strategic impact and collaborative innovation for a healthier and more resilient world.
Well Ahead, an initiative of McConnell Foundation, aims to improve child and youth mental health by integrating social and emotional…
Since 2005, the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Community Food Action Initiative (CFAI) has been supporting place-based community-led solutions to improve…
Resilience is our ability to respond and adapt to change in ways that are proactive, build local capacity, and ensure…
Over the last year, SHIFT has been busy in the field, working on over 30 projects with many organizations and collaboratives. As we look back over our first year, four key themes are getting our attention and stretching our learning: 1….
Together with our colleagues at Scale Collaborative we have been working with Sunrise Education Society since January 2018 on engagement…
The Solutions Lab has been identified as a priority in the City of Vancouver’s Healthy City Strategy in order to…
Building on the SHIFT team’s work on the Community Dialogue, Hey Victoria, Let’s Talk About Your Drinking, Stacy Barter authored…
The SHIFT Team designed and facilitated this multi-sector community dialogue exploring perceptions, evidence, opportunities around Victoria’s culture of drinking. This…
Webinar: Building Readiness through the Collective Impact Feasibility Framework Guest: Robert Albright, Director of Programs, Collective Impact Forum, FSG Host: Liz Weaver, Co-CEO, Tamarack Learning Centre, Tamarack Institute Date: February 20, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST From their event page: Collective Impact…
Greater Victoria Resilient Streets Kick-off Workshops September 13, 16 and 24 | Victoria, BC Join SHIFT Team members Stacy Barter and Michelle Colussi for Resilient Streets Kick-off workshops this fall in 3 new neighbourhoods: James Bay, Fernwood and Burnside Gorge. Resilient…
In partnership with ICLEI Canada, the City of Victoria is hosting the sixth annual Livable Cities forum: Advancing Low Carbon Resilience. Join SHIFT Team members Erica Crawford and Deirdre Goudriaan and others for their workshop on Creating Resilient, Low Carbon Food…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia. The…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia. The…
The Solutions Lab has been identified as a priority in the City of Vancouver’s Healthy City Strategy in order to…
Seeds of Change Surrey is a partnership among organizations with a mandate to increase food security including NGOs, the School…
The Healthy City Strategy outlines 13 long-term goals for the well-being of the City of Vancouver and its people, including…
The CCHPG is a provincial multi-sector network focused on nurturing partnerships, leadership and capacity within the health sector to reduce…
The Victoria Foundation has been supporting Collective Impact and multi-sector collaboration for systems change for several years in the Capital…
Better at Home provides non-medical supports to enable seniors to live at home longer and stay connected with their communities….
From their event page: The pressures facing our cities is intense. Across the globe cities are working to address complex issues such as mobility and the movement of people; changing economies; the influx of technology platforms and the creation of smart…
Let’s face it: we’re just not going to get there at this rate. No, let me try that again: the way things are going, we’re going to end up exactly where we’re currently headed, and it doesn’t look so good…. A…
Systems thinking is a buzz word in the field of social impact these days, but what does it mean and why do we need to be more comfortable working with systems? At SHIFT we have worked with many organizations and sectors…
The Collective Impact model is a valuable guide for any cross sector group with system changing or “needle moving” aspirations. Tamarack Institute’s recent addition of the “Collective Impact 3.0” model, incorporates learning and stretches the model in a helpful direction. But…
How many times have you been faced with a problem and thought, ‘My goodness, I can think of a better way to do that’? We do this all the time in our day to day interactions. And yet, how often do…
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