Poverty Reduction Public Education Group
- Public Consultation Tool Kit (PDF) (updated June 9)
Policy Dispatch – A Poverty Watch Ontario Resource
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
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
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)
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)
Northumberland Poverty Reduction Action Committee
Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy Consultation Reports
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
Government Poverty Reduction Strategies
Federal Government
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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
Health Providers Against Poverty
Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC)
Make Poverty History
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.