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Understanding Your Context

• Poverty in Canada
• Poverty in Your Community
• Your Current Role in Poverty
• Local Organizations Working on Poverty

Ways to Respond to Poverty

• Perspectives on Poverty
• Community Foundation Approaches
• Other Funder Strategies
• Going Deeper

Assessing Your Readiness for
a Stronger Anti-Poverty Role

• Going Deeper

Choosing a Strategy

• A Spectrum of Possibilities
• Questions to Consider
• Theory of Change
• Reflection of Theory of Change, From the Field
• Going Deeper

Anticipating Your Impact

• Change Within Your Foundation
• Change in Your Relationships in the Community and Donor Engagement
• Reduction in Poverty in Your Community

Assessing Your Impact

• Why Evaluate?
• Resources and Getting Started
• Going Deeper (on evaluation approaches)
• Tool: Developing Indicators and Collecting Information
• Learning from Experience: Hamilton and Winnipeg's Evaluation Frameworks
  • The Winnipeg Foundation's Poverty-Reduction Strategy
  • Hamilton Community Foundation's Poverty-Reduction Strategy
  • Growing Roots...
    Strengthening Neighbourhoods
  • Tackling Poverty Together
  • Hamilton Roundtable
• Going Deeper

Five Difficult Questions