Vibrant Communities

Vibrant Communities is a community-driven effort to reduce poverty in Canada by creating partnerships that make use of our most valuable assets - people, organizations, businesses and governments. It’s a unique approach to poverty reduction that allows communities to learn from - and help - each other.

Vibrant Communities links communities across Canada, from British Columbia to Newfoundland, in a collective effort to test the most effective ways to reduce poverty at the community level.

We concentrate on four key approaches:

  • comprehensive local initiatives aimed at poverty reduction;
  • grassroots collaboration involving all sectors of the community in these initiatives;
  • identifying community assets and putting them to good use in poverty-reduction efforts;
  • a commitment to learning, change and sharing what we learn - whether the product of our successes or our failures.

Right now, there are fifteen communities participating in Vibrant Communities. The aim is to more than double that number over the next three years.  There is much more information on the Vibrant Communities web site.