Local Publications
- CAPRA Engagement Summary Jan 2022
- Social Connections Matter infographic
- Poverty in Red Deer: A needs and opportunities assessment by bassa Social Innovations
- 2019 Executive Summary of Poverty Perspectives by S. Merrill
- 2019 Poster Presentation of Poverty Perspectives by S. Merrill
- 2018 Living Wage Report for Red Deer by the City of Red Deer and M. Haener Consulting Services
- 2018 Executive Summary of the Poverty Awareness Survey by M. Hillman
- Poster Presentation of the the Poverty Awareness Survey by M. Hillman
- 2016 Living Wage Report by CAPRA and M. Haener Consulting Services
- 2016 Living Wage Infographic by CAPRA
- 2014 The Movement Towards Transportation Equality by the Leadership Group Excel
- 2013 Red Deer Community Housing Annual Report by the City of Red Deer and the Red Deer Community Foundation
- 2011 Single Parents Affected by Poverty: A Community Profile by the Leadership Group Straight Talk and CAPRA
Regional and National Publications
- Living-Wage-Report-Nov-2021 by the Alberta Living Wage Network
- 2013 Poverty Costs 2.0 by Vibrant Communities Calgary and Action to End Poverty in Alberta
- Poverty Cost 2.5 by AEPA and VCC
- 2012 Poverty Costs Alberta Report by Vibrant Communities Calgary and Action to End Poverty in Alberta
- 2008 Poverty Policy by Sherri Torjman
Links to other Poverty Reduction initiatives
- Vibrant Communities Canada is a community-driven effort to reduce poverty in Canada by creating partnerships that make use of our most valuable assets – people, organizations, businesses and governments.
- Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement is a national charity that develops and supports learning communities that help people to collaborate, co-generate knowledge and achieve collective impact on complex community issues.
- Together We Raise Tomorrow is the Alberta government’s site discussing poverty reduction strategies.
- National Poverty Reduction Strategy is the government of Canada’s site outlining poverty reduction strategies.
Great Resources
- Poverty in Canada, 2nd edition by Raphael, Dennis
- Scarcity: Why Having so Little Means so Much by Mullainathan, Sendhil; Shafir, Eldar
- Enough for All by Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI)
- Ideas to Action by Vibrant Communities Calgary (VCC)
- Poverty Costs: An Economic Case for a Preventative Poverty Reduction Strategy in Alberta by Action to End Poverty Alberta (AEPA)
- Poverty Policy by Torjman, Sherri, Caledon Institute
- Hunger Count 2015 by Food Banks of Canada
- EndPoverty in a Generation by EndPoverty Edmonton
- Sustainable Livelihoods: So Much More Than Just Getting By by Momentum
- New PROOF Fact Sheets on Food Insecurity by PROOF Food Insecurity Policy Research
Organization Resource List:
- Action to End Poverty Alberta is a non-profit initiative that works collaboratively with all levels of government, the community and with people experiencing poverty, to help develop and implement a comprehensive strategy and action plan to end poverty in Alberta.
- The Broadbent Institute is an independent, non-partisan organization championing progressive change through the promotion of democracy, equality, and sustainability and the training of a new generation of leaders.
- Caledon Institute is a social policy think-tank whose work covers a wide variety of social policy areas including income security, community capacity-building, taxation, social spending, employment development services, social services, disability supports and health.
- Canada Without Poverty: Works to address poverty in Canada from a human rights perspective based in international law.
- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: The Growing Gap project takes an in-depth and sustained look at income inequality in Canada by tracking household income, wealth, spending and credit data.
- Canadian Social Research Net publishes a weekly newsletter on social issues and provides an online resource on provincial poverty reduction strategies as well as a poverty dispatch archive.
- Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance (CAPRA): A collaborative initiative supporting the efforts of those working to reduce poverty in our community in Central Alberta.
- Edmonton Social Planning Council monitors social issues and trends, and regularly produces publications that make accurate information and an informed perspective available to the public.
- PovNet: PovNet provides online tools that facilitate communication, community and access to information around poverty-related issues in British Columbia and Canada.
- Public Interest Alberta: Public Interest Alberta is a non-profit, non-partisan, province-wide organization focused on education and advocacy on public interest issues.
- Tamarack Institute: A charity that develops and supports learning communities to help people collaborate and to co-generate knowledge that solves complex community challenges with the focus of ending poverty in Canada.
- Vibrant Communities Canada is a Learning Community for cities with comprehensive poverty reduction strategies led by multi-sector roundtables.
Provincial and Territorial Plans
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