Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: Jill Sporidis, Executive Leadership Award Recipient, 2012 Heart Awards

Building relationships with a broad range of stakeholders

Strong Communities Celebrate Their Strengths - 2013 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Encouraging greater recognition of regional assets

Engaging more people in creating change

Strong Communities Celebrate Their Strengths - 2013 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Facilitating Dialogue & Creative Thinking

Connecting the Nonprofit Sector to Resources

Strong Communities Celebrate Their Strengths - 2013 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Enabling increased knowledge exchange

Creating Structures for Learning & Skill Development

Building relationships and a broad range of stakeholders

Congratulations to nine organizations who participated in the Accreditation Preparation Workshop Series

Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Thumbs Up for the Social Prosperity Framework for Building Prosperous Communities!

Creating Structures for Learning & Skill Development

Russell Thomas interprets conversation at ConvergenceYMM 2013

Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Award Recipient Alex Sanchez

Strong Communities Celebrate Their Strengths - 2013 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards

Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo

Welcome to the Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo project website. This website contains a history of the SPWB project and includes reports, newsletters, promotional materials, resources and events. Learn about our journey of collective leadership and collaborative effort to bring about social change in Wood Buffalo.

Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo is a community-driven collaborative process to build and sustain innovation and social change in Wood Buffalo, Alberta.

As of June 10th, 2013, we need 50 social profit (nonprofit or charitable) organizations to complete the 30-minute 2013 Capacity Assessment Survey. Help us reach our goal of more than 100 completed surveys. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far! Another draw for an Apple ipad will take place on June 28th, 2013!

Action Required: Take 30 minutes to complete the 2013 Capacity Assessment Survey!

Read a 2-page summary of the Alberta Social Policy Framework: Two-pager on the Social Policy Framework.pdf

New! June 2013 Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo newsletter

If you are looking for a quick overview of 2012 activities and our progress towards our shared vision to improve quality of life by building capacity in community benefit organizations, check out the Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo 2012 Dashboard Report

Convergence YMM: Follow the work of Convergence YMM, focused on addressing the nonprofit sector's role in the future development of Wood Buffalo www.convergenceymm.ca

Join the social prosperity movement! Make a commitment to improve quality of life in your community. Support community organizations with your gift of time, financial resources or engaged participation in programs and services.

Build organizational capacity. Use the resources in the Social Prosperity Toolkit

Testimonials

“It was an absolute thrill to be a part of the Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo Change Lab and Prosperity Summit. Both days proved to be filled with rich conversations and deep engagement with community leaders at all levels and from all sectors.” Russell Thomas, Director, Marketing & Communications

“It is hard to define on paper the excitement rippling through the community from the Social Prosperity Project!” Donna Smith, Regional Capacity Coordinator, KnowledgeConnector

“Leveraging the broadest and most diverse network of community stakeholders in Wood Buffalo, Social Prosperity has provided the platform for a comprehensive, multipronged response to pressing problems facing the region’s nonprofit sector.” Emmanuel (Manny) Makia, Social Planning Supervisor, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

“Whole system community change interventions offer much more than the sum of their parts. Even as the initiative moves into its second year, the attendant ripple effects of Social Prosperity will continue to strengthen and amplify the voice of Wood Buffalo’s nonprofit sector for a very long time.” Emmanuel (Manny) Makia, Social Planning Supervisor, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

“Building capacity is about making connections between people, creating opportunities to grow, and ensuring individuals and organizations have the skills to make it happen.” Donna Smith, Regional Capacity Coordinator, KnowledgeConnector

“ SPWB has afforded an opportunity for networking that could never have happened in such a short time otherwise.” Donna Smith, Regional Capacity Coordinator, KnowledgeConnector

“Positive change is a process that demands both time and significant commitment, not to mention the belief that change is possible. The Social Prosperity project is enabling an entire community to re-imagine, re-think, re-energize how it operates at a nonprofit, grassroots level. It is happening and it is working.“ Russell Thomas, Director, Marketing & Communications

“Social Prosperity is a catalyst for action based on a simple premise: Together we can change our communities and nation for the better.” Emmanuel (Manny) Makia, Social Planning Supervisor, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

“The Strategic Planning with Cathy Brothers was an excellent workshop! It was well organized, the guest speaker was certainly well versed and invited audience participation. Cathy demonstrated that she values the non-profit sector and certainly understands the funding restraints that we all work under. The partnership with Wood Buffalo is absolutely a value added for our community and can only make the place we call home - a more fantastic place to live and work. Excellent, excellent workshop!” Cathy Payne, Board Member, Safe Communities

“The initiative continues to bring together bright leaders in the Wood Buffalo community to learn from each other, develop and implement innovative strategies for a greater collective impact. At the same time, social innovation practitioners from Waterloo University and across Canada have been invited to contribute to nurturing brilliant leaders and incubate great ideas that will shape a better future for the sector.” Emmanuel (Manny) Makia, Social Planning Supervisor, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

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