Vibrant Communities Calgary - Enough For All
    As the steward of Enough for All, VCC works together with non-profits, businesses, governments, community members, and people with lived experience to align efforts, share evidence, and advance practical solutions that reduce poverty and improve well-being.  

    VCC’s engagement approach is two-pronged: 

    • We engage with community members and the voices of lived experience of poverty to ensure policy recommendations are developed based on real-life experience as well as data and research. The insights from these individuals reveal gaps, unintended consequences, and practical barriers that data alone can miss. Community engagement is a core aspect of the Enough for All strategy. Learn more about this community engagement approach: Kaleidoscope Spaces. 
       
    • VCC’s network engagement work helps to reduce duplication and increase alignment across sectors and initiatives to strengthen collective influence on policy and systems. VCC intentionally engages with Enough for All Champions, organizations, businesses, and collaboratives to drive change on a systems level. Learn more about this approach through: Network Engagement and the Social Policy Collaborative. 

    Engagement Principles 

     VCC aims to create a dynamic and diverse community engagement framework, using the following principles of engagement: 
    • Diverse Voices: Embrace a multitude of perspectives. 
    • Transformational Purpose: Assess and meet the needs of convening, unite for meaningful exchanges, and communicate with clarity. 
    • Agile Response: Quickly adapt to evolving needs, collaborate for effective and collective impact, and identify and apply the right convening tools to address the question at hand. 
    • Lived Experience Amplified: Always elevate lived insights and expertise.  
    • Dynamic Convening: Gather with intent and flexibility; continuously gather, apply insights, maintain feedback loops, and share learnings.