Resources

Poverty Reduction Public Education Group

• Public Consultation Tool Kit (PDF) (updated June 9)

Policy Dispatch – A Poverty Watch Ontario Resource

• Affordable Housing As Essential To A Serious Poverty Reduction Strategy In Ontario

Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO)

• SPNO Policy Framework Presentation – July 2008 (PDF) Full Colour version UPDATED JULY 14
  
• SPNO Policy Framework Presentation – July 2008 (PDF) B & W Handout version UPDATED JULY 14
  
• SPNO Poverty Reduction Strategy – September 2007 (PDF)
• SPNO Website

Campaign 2000

• Work isn’t Working for Families in Ontario – May 2008
• Campaign 2000 Releases New Report on Child Poverty in Ontario – April 2008
• 2007 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Ontario (April 2, 2008)
  The Road Ahead – Poverty Reduction in Ontario. Full report in PDF
• Campaign 2000 Report: Summoned to Stewardship: Make poverty reduction a collective legacy (PDF)
• Campaign 2000 website

Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)

• Current Campaigns and Law Reform
• Government Consultations on Poverty Reduction
• Poverty Reduction and Social Assistance (PDF) NEW
• Ending Poverty Project
• Ending Poverty in Ontario: Building Capacity and Organizing for Change A Workshop for Engaging Low Income People (PDF) NEW
• Income Security Advocacy Centre website

25 in 5 Network

• The 25 in 5 Founding Declaration (PDF)
• 25 in 5 Network website

Community Development Halton

• Community Dispatch – Poverty Reduction Strategies in Quebec and Newfoundland & Labrador
• Community Dispatch – Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Community Dispatch – Poverty In Canada: Our Disgrace
• Community Development Halton website

Metcalf Foundation

• Report – Why is it so tough to get ahead? How our tangled social programs pathologize the transition to self-reliance (PDF). PowerPoint presentation (PDF) By John Stapleton

Provincial Consultation Working Group (PCWG) of the Nipissing District

• Report – Poverty Reduction in Nipissing District: Perspectives and Priorities (PDF)

ODSP Action Coalition

• MPP Lobby Kit
• ODSP Action Coalition website

Canadian Mental Health Association

• Strategies for Reducing Poverty in Ontario – June 2008 (PDF)
• Backgrounder: Poverty and Mental Illness – November 2007 (PDF)
• Canadian Mental Health Association (Ontario) website

Ontario Municipal Social Services Association (OMSSA)

• A Strategy to End Homelessness – Report of OMSSA’s Ending Homelessness Task Force (PDF)
• OMSSA website

Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB)

• Our Choice for a Better Ontario: A Plan to Cut Poverty in Half by 2020 (PDF)
• OAFB Website

Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction

• Community Conversation on Poverty Reduction – Monday, July 14, 2008 ~ Report Summary (PDF)
• Community Conversation on Poverty Reduction – Monday, July 14, 2008 ~ Full Report (PDF)
• HRPR website

Renfrew County Child Poverty Action Network (CPAN)

• Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Plan Consultation (PDF)
• CPAN Website

Northumberland Poverty Reduction Action Committee

• Report from the Northumberland Poverty Reduction Action Committee Community Action Day – April 4, 2008 (PDF)

Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy Consultation Reports

• Davenport West Poverty Reduction Town Hall Meeting Report
• Owen Sound
  

Ontario New Democratic Party

• REPORT: The Time is Now: Tackling Poverty in Ontario
  (Sept. 24, 2008)
• Website

Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association

• A Housing Benefit for Ontario: One Housing Solution for a Poverty Reduction Strategy (PDF – 151K, 30 pages) NEW
• Website

Manitoba Poverty Reduction Coalition

• The Time for Patience is Over: Toward a Poverty Reduction Plan for Manitoba (Discussion Paper) PDF

Government Poverty Reduction Strategies

Federal Government

• The federal contribution to reducing poverty in Canada:
  EVIDENCE – Meeting No. 23 of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
  (39th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION)
  April 10, 2008

Poverty Reduction Strategies in Quebec and in Newfoundland and Labrador
October 2007
Source:
Parliamentary Research Library
(Government of Canada)

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Poverty Reduction Strategy website
• Poverty Reduction – An Action Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador (PDF)

Nova Scotia

• Poverty Reduction Strategy website
• Poverty Backgrounder
• Related – Framework for a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Nova Scotia Source:
  Nova Scotia Poverty Reduction Strategy Coalition

Quebec

• National Strategy to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion
• An Act to combat poverty and social exclusion, R.S.Q., chapter L-7

Other Organizations Involved in Poverty Reduction

Anti-Poverty Strategies and Campaigns in Canada and Elsewhere – Canadian Social Research Links

Colour of Poverty

Health Providers Against Poverty

Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC)

Make Poverty History

Wellesley Institute

Worker’s Action Centre

United Kingdom

The Poverty Site website
The UK site for statistics on poverty and social exclusion.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation website
A leading centre for policy research on poverty and disadvantage.

United States

Economic Policy Institute website
A leading research centre on labour market and income dynamics

Half in Ten – From Poverty to Prosperity website
Half in Ten plans to reduce poverty in the United States by 50 percent within 10 years.