Building relationships and a broad range of stakeholders
Enabling increased knowledge exchange
Building relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
Facilitating Dialogue & Creative Thinking
Encouraging greater recognition of regional assets
Engaging more people in creating change
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards
Thumbs Up for the Social Prosperity Framework for Building Prosperous Communities!
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: Jill Sporidis, Executive Leadership Award Recipient, 2012 Heart Awards
Connecting the Nonprofit Sector to Resources
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards
Creating Structures for Learning & Skill Development
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 Heart of Wood Buffalo Award Recipient Alex Sanchez
Creating Structures for Learning & Skill Development
Celebrating Excellence in the Nonprofit Sector: 2012 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. 

New! May 2013 Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo newsletter

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

Last year more than 100 social benefit (charitable/nonprofit) organizations participated in the survey which generated important information about the sector and helped organizations to assess their organization’s capacity for delivering responsive programs and services. 

May 23 - Information session for the fall Accreditation Preparation workshops.  If your organization is considering acquiring accreditation through Imagine Canada's Standards Program, please join us for lunch on May 23rd to learn more about this amazing resource. Register now!

May 23 - Heart of Wood Buffalo Leadership Awards.  Tickets on sale now! 

May 24 - Collaborating for Collective Impact.  Building on ConvergenceYMM, this workshop presents information about collective impact and the development of a collective impact approach to solving complex social problems in Wood Buffalo.

Watch a short video on collective impact:

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

 

“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

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