Imagining what’s possible in a community requires an understanding of how change happens.
Building Blocks will offer a civic literacy primer – how government makes decisions and how to impact those decisions – in communities across the Greater Toronto Area.
Read about the journey to Building Blocks on the DiverseCity blog.
Our partners - Building Blocks will be delivered in partnership with organizations that stretch beyond serving needs to involving residents in finding solutions to the challenges they face where they live. Each organization will identify a leader and Building Blocks will train them to, in turn, train hundreds of others.
Our leaders - Program leaders are a diverse group committed to engaging residents in finding solutions to local challenges. Each leader brings a wealth of experience, a passion for action and embraces all forms of diversity as a value.
Program participants together identify what is possible:
- In their neighbourhood
- How government works
- Role of business, non-profits, residents and government
As a group, they figure out how to get what they want:
- Identify levers of power
- How to work with government
- Build partnerships: business and non-profits, residents and government
Contact: civicleadership@diversecitytoronto.ca
Building Blocks is in part funded by
