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SUMMARY:Community Change Summit
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nAbout the Event\nAfter three years apart, we’re coming back together – in person, in purpose, and in possibility.  This Fall, join a movement of changemakers from across Canada and beyond for a summit that celebrates the courage of community, the power of place, and the promise of what’s next. Together, we’ll learn, connect, and accelerate solutions that transform lives and landscapes.\nThis is your invitation to join a powerful gathering of community builders, systems shifters, and policy changemakers ready to take collaboration to the next level.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat awaits:\n\nCelebrate the unstoppable force of collaborative action and local leadership.\nLearn from  the triumphs and trials of local leaders.\nBuild your changemaking skills and leave feeling equipped for the work ahead.\nShape an essential narrative: place-based collaboration as an engine of systemic change.\nContribute to community-driven policy shifts on livable incomes, community ownership, climate equity, educational opportunities and meaningful ways to centre equity in all areas of our work.\nInteract with the next generation of tools that reimagine how we work, govern and invest together.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho this is for:\nChangemakers engaged in community-driven and community-centric programming.\nCollaborative and network convenors, facilitators, and contributors.\nNational and provincial systems leaders, eager to connect with new co-conspirators.\nFunders interested in investing their resources to support community leadership and lasting change.\nTeams of people working together in place; attending together can spark transformation.\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Gathering Experience\nThis gathering is intentionally designed across two complementary learning environments.\nDay One takes place in Toronto neighbourhoods, where we will step into the living work of local initiatives. Through site visits and conversations with local leaders, we will experience place-based initiatives firsthand – seeing how ideas take shape in real communities, learning from the challenges and creativity of neighbourhood work, and grounding the gathering in the power and possibility of local action.\nDays Two and Three move to Evergreen Brick Works, a retreat-like setting nestled in Toronto’s urban ravine system. Here, the pace shifts from exploration to reflection and collaboration. Surrounded by nature, as a community of changemakers, we will deepen relationships, build skills and tools, and explore the conditions needed to advance and sustain collective action and systems change.\n\n\nAgenda At a Glance\n\n\n\n\nDay 1 – October 21\nCecil Community Centre, Toronto Neighbourhoods\n \n \nPlace:\nLearning from the field through immersive community tours and connections with local leaders\n\nDay 2 – October 22\nEvergreen Brickworks\n \n \n \nPeople:\nBuilding skills and supports to continue, sustain, and equip us for the next horizon of changemaking\n\nDay 3 – October 23\nEvergreen Brickworks\n \n \n \nPolicy & Systems Change:\nCreating the enabling environment for systems change and collective action\n\n\nGather together to connect as a learning community.\n \n \nExperience one of six immersive community tours to learn about local initiatives, including:\n \n\nTransformative Community Land Trust\nSocial Enterprise at Scale using asset-based approaches and community wealth building.\nWorkers’ action and migrant advocacy.\nNeighbourhood Action & the Community Benefits Movement.\nAnd more!\n\n \nOptional evening gathering to share stories and build connections\nReconvene the learning community\n\nReflection from community tours: seeing possibility, progress, gumption, and the power of relationships & trust.\n\nPlenary – Navigating shifting ground\n\nHow polarization and limited levels of trust are impacting community change efforts.\nBeing a bridge builder and other roles are required to advance our work.\nReflection – the inner and external work of changemaking.\n\nInitiative showcase\n \n \nMusic, art, and walks\n \n \nDeep-dive workshops – Building practical changemaking skills, including:\n\nCommunity engagement – participatory decision-making approaches.\nCollaboration – defining and framing your issue.\nCollective leadership – conflict transformation.\nAnd more!\n\nPlenary – 10 years later: lessons learned from longer-term initiatives about sustaining community-based work\n \nReconvene the learning community\n \n \nGetting to systems change – learning session, interactive activity, group sensemaking\n \n \nThe Next Horizon panel – What system leaders are anticipating, and the role of place-based collaboration as the engine of systemic change\n \n \nBlock 1 – Advocacy & movement building\nTool carousel of effective strategies and actions\n \n \nBlock 2 – Prototyping, scaling, and embedding new solutions\n\nCase studies\nDiscussion and sensemaking\n\nMusic, art, and walks\n \n \nBlock 3 – Policy Change\nContribute to a community-driven policy change agenda\n\nFinancial security\nGuaranteed Basic Income\nPoverty Reduction\nEntrepreneurship\nBelonging\nClimate Justice\nYouth Employment Pathways\nInclusive economies\n\n \n \nClose the learning community\n\n\n\n\n\nThe spirit of the Community Change Summit\nWe believe that learning is a shared experience. Expect to be active in sharing your stories, experiences, successes, and challenges to contribute to the learning community.\nWe believe that place matters. We want to enable connection with the land and with the communities we spend time in.\nWe will work to strengthen connections between diverse people, organizations, and sectors to build trust, alignment, and accountability so we can achieve more together than we can apart. We will foster a sense of belonging so that all gatherers can feel valued, accepted, and able to participate fully regardless of background.\nWe want to foster creativity, curiosity, and hope. When we are inspired, our work becomes easier. We orient attention – one of our most valuable forms of capital – toward what is possible and toward the examples – however small – that represent the future we want.\nWe support action and learning cycles. We ask difficult questions about the systems and structures of oppression. We centre lived/living experience and amplify work in service of equitable outcomes.\nWe focus on the how and share practical stories, tools and processes to build individual capacity, guide change at the scale of entire communities, and shift policies and systems in service of ending poverty in all of its forms.\nEach person has a role to play, and we welcome your voice as part of our learning community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCommunity Change Summit\nOctober 21 – 23, 2026\n \nToronto, Ontario\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHold a Spot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda ( https://events.tamarackcommunity.ca/community-change-summit?hsLang=en#agenda )\n\nLogistics ( https://events.tamarackcommunity.ca/community-change-summit?hsLang=en#logistics )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n150\nChangemakers\n\n\n\n\n5 +\nImmersive Community Tours\n\n\n\n\n3\nDays of immersive learning, peer connection, and collective action\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event\nAfter three years apart, we’re coming back together – in person, in purpose, and in possibility.  This Fall, join a movement of changemakers from across Canada and beyond for a summit that celebrates the courage of community, the power of place, and the promise of what’s next. Together, we’ll learn, connect, and accelerate solutions that transform lives and landscapes.\nThis is your invitation to join a powerful gathering of community builders, systems shifters, and policy changemakers ready to take collaboration to the next level.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat awaits:\n\nCelebrate the unstoppable force of collaborative action and local leadership.\nLearn from  the triumphs and trials of local leaders.\nBuild your changemaking skills and leave feeling equipped for the work ahead.\nShape an essential narrative: place-based collaboration as an engine of systemic change.\nContribute to community-driven policy shifts on livable incomes, community ownership, climate equity, educational opportunities and meaningful ways to centre equity in all areas of our work.\nInteract with the next generation of tools that reimagine how we work, govern and invest together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho this is for:\nChangemakers engaged in community-driven and community-centric programming.\nCollaborative and network convenors, facilitators, and contributors.\nNational and provincial systems leaders, eager to connect with new co-conspirators.\nFunders interested in investing their resources to support community leadership and lasting change.\nTeams of people working together in place; attending together can spark transformation.\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Gathering Experience\nThis gathering is intentionally designed across two complementary learning environments.\nDay One takes place in Toronto neighbourhoods, where we will step into the living work of local initiatives. Through site visits and conversations with local leaders, we will experience place-based initiatives firsthand – seeing how ideas take shape in real communities, learning from the challenges and creativity of neighbourhood work, and grounding the gathering in the power and possibility of local action.\nDays Two and Three move to Evergreen Brick Works, a retreat-like setting nestled in Toronto’s urban ravine system. Here, the pace shifts from exploration to reflection and collaboration. Surrounded by nature, as a community of changemakers, we will deepen relationships, build skills and tools, and explore the conditions needed to advance and sustain collective action and systems change.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHold a Spot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda At a Glance\n \n\n\n\n\nDay 1 – October 21\nCecil Community Centre, Toronto Neighbourhoods\n \n \nPlace:\nLearning from the field through immersive community tours and connections with local leaders\n\nDay 2 – October 22\nEvergreen Brickworks\n \n \n \nPeople:\nBuilding skills and supports to continue, sustain, and equip us for the next horizon of changemaking\n\nDay 3 – October 23\nEvergreen Brickworks\n \n \n \nPolicy & Systems Change:\nCreating the enabling environment for systems change and collective action\n\n\nGather together to connect as a learning community.\n \n \nExperience one of six immersive community tours to learn about local initiatives, including:\n \n\nTransformative Community Land Trust\nSocial Enterprise at Scale using asset-based approaches and community wealth building.\nWorkers’ action and migrant advocacy.\nNeighbourhood Action & the Community Benefits Movement.\nAnd more!\n\n \nOptional evening gathering to share stories and build connections\nReconvene the learning community\n\nReflection from community tours: seeing possibility, progress, gumption, and the power of relationships & trust.\n\nPlenary – Navigating shifting ground\n\nHow polarization and limited levels of trust are impacting community change efforts.\nBeing a bridge builder and other roles are required to advance our work.\nReflection – the inner and external work of changemaking.\n\nInitiative showcase\n \n \nMusic, art, and walks\n \n \nDeep-dive workshops – Building practical changemaking skills, including:\n\nCommunity engagement – participatory decision-making approaches.\nCollaboration – defining and framing your issue.\nCollective leadership – conflict transformation.\nAnd more!\n\nPlenary – 10 years later: lessons learned from longer-term initiatives about sustaining community-based work\n \nReconvene the learning community\n \n \nGetting to systems change – learning session, interactive activity, group sensemaking\n \n \nThe Next Horizon panel – What system leaders are anticipating, and the role of place-based collaboration as the engine of systemic change\n \n \nBlock 1 – Advocacy & movement building\nTool carousel of effective strategies and actions\n \n \nBlock 2 – Prototyping, scaling, and embedding new solutions\n\nCase studies\nDiscussion and sensemaking\n\nMusic, art, and walks\n \n \nBlock 3 – Policy Change\nContribute to a community-driven policy change agenda\n\nFinancial security\nGuaranteed Basic Income\nPoverty Reduction\nEntrepreneurship\nBelonging\nClimate Justice\nYouth Employment Pathways\nInclusive economies\n\n \n \nClose the learning community\n\n\n\nPlease note that details will evolve as the agenda is finalized.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe spirit of the Community Change Summit\nWe believe that learning is a shared experience. Expect to be active in sharing your stories, experiences, successes, and challenges to contribute to the learning community.\nWe believe that place matters. We want to enable connection with the land and with the communities we spend time in.\nWe will work to strengthen connections between diverse people, organizations, and sectors to build trust, alignment, and accountability so we can achieve more together than we can apart. We will foster a sense of belonging so that all gatherers can feel valued, accepted, and able to participate fully regardless of background.\nWe want to foster creativity, curiosity, and hope. When we are inspired, our work becomes easier. We orient attention – one of our most valuable forms of capital – toward what is possible and toward the examples – however small – that represent the future we want.\nWe support action and learning cycles. We ask difficult questions about the systems and structures of oppression. We centre lived/living experience and amplify work in service of equitable outcomes.\nWe focus on the how and share practical stories, tools and processes to build individual capacity, guide change at the scale of entire communities, and shift policies and systems in service of ending poverty in all of its forms.\nEach person has a role to play, and we welcome your voice as part of our learning community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHold a Spot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Logistics & Registration\nThe Summit will kick off at the Cecil Community Centre located at 58 Cecil Street, Toronto. From there, we will head out into neighbourhoods across the city to immerse ourselves in and learn from local initiatives.\nFor days two and three of the Summit, we are proud to partner with Evergreen Brickworks, located at 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto. Evergreen Brickworks is nestled within Toronto’s urban ravine system and provides free shuttle service to and from Broadview Subway Station.\nWe are working to pull together hotel accommodation options that would make accessing both venues as easy as possible. Stay tuned!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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