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Collective Community Response to Homelessness Demonstration Project |
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Community Development
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 Much of the day-to-day responsibility for addressing the needs of the thousands of men, women and children in Calgary who are homeless is borne by community organizations that are stretched to their limits in time and money. The Collective Community Response to Homelessness Demonstration Project (“the CCRH Project”) was created to join the forces of community-minded organizations to provide a multi-sectoral, collective response to the needs of clients who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.
With funding support from the federal government, seven agencies were brought together by Capacity Builders to form the initial community partners for the CCRH Project. These agencies spanned a wide variety of sectors, including Addictions, Family, Mental Health and Domestic Violence.
In its first year, the CCRH Project has demonstrated a number of successes. Together, the group has established 30 joint venture projects related to the provision of food among homeless clients in numerous homeless sectors Unique in Calgary, the CCRH Project is also creating a prototype for how agencies across Canadian cities can collaborate in a way that serves individual agency self-interest, provides mutual benefits and leverages services as a whole. |
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The Gardener: Servant Leader's Guide to Organization Development (2009) |
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Organizational Development
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 Life being what it is, their organizations change in big and small ways. Their organizations get out of whack; they can drift from their mandate; the world around them changes continually. Somehow leaders need to adapt their organization to accommodate these changes. They need to align and realign their efforts to an agreed upon vision, mission and objective as time goes on.
How does a leader facilitate change? There is no standard process. In fact, it can be complex, frustrating and confusing. The leader may have to adopt a variety of approaches — some planned, structured and explicit; others more organic, unfolding and implicit.
Capacity Builders first book is a practical guide for leaders to help them fulfill the mandate of their organizations in an organic fashion. It provides leaders with valuable tools and links to other resources.
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Organizational Development
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Capacity Builders helped Wycliffe Canada create Global PartnerLink, a $2.5 Million /year international development organization in 3 years.
 Wycliffe Canada had struggled for decades to create partnerships with major donors in Canada who believed in its vision. At the same time, it had overseas partners waiting to carry out its mandate in remote villages in Africa, South Pacific and the Orient. What it needed was a way to connect the resources in Canada to its overseas partners who were primed to carry out the task.
 Capacity Builders helped Wycliffe discover an innovative approach to bridge this gap, while creating a new organization to fulfill this mandate – Global PartnerLink. We assisted the leadership of this new organization to conceive, plan, realize and evaluate its projects, market its services to major donors and enhance its relationships with operating partners around the world.
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Organizational Development
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  Calgary Dream Centre started up in 2003, with only a handful of full-time staff. Only five years later, it has become a fully-integrated community agency with over 50 staff, serving over 250 live-in clients per year. Capacity Builders helped it to evaluate its programming, gain support for its ongoing operations and become a leader in addressing homelessness alongside other stakeholders.
 Only three years into its development, this shelter for men dealing with addictions problems was poised for growth. But it had some significant organizational needs that had to be addressed first. The federal government contracted Capacity Builders to assess the Dream Centre and help it discover the way forward.
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Public Awareness
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  Beyond Medicine is a magazine-format TV series developed by Capacity Builders. It employs a wide variety of strategies to communicate complex concepts related to complementary medicine.
Have you ever wanted to reach a wide audience? Although complementary medicine is a field that could bring health benefits to many people, most Canadians reject it outright before considering its value. Beyond Medicine is an example of a media strategy carried out by Capacity Builders to raise awareness about important issues to the public. It was shown around the globe in ten countries, and is still being shown ten years later. |
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Fundraising
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  How do you say credibility? By focusing on Heroes, IMPACT's core program, Capacity Builders was able to take the organization forward, give it a strategic direction, communicate its cause, and gain support.
Capacity Builders was hired by one of IMPACT Society’s funders to provide this organization with the direction it needed, and to gain support. We also helped IMPACT navigate the complex bureaucratic process, successfully obtaining grants from corporations, foundations and two levels of government. |
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Rosebud Theatre is only one hour and fifteen minutes from Calgary, and has been a rural success story for many years. However, they needed to find a way to connect with the million people in Calgary on their doorstep. Capacity Builders was hired to broaden their media network.
