A new council in Edmonton is preparing for the city to eventually double its population. It is called the Human Services Council made up of nine different partners taking a “sector-based approach” to support people with the resources they have.
One goal of the summit is to find ways for service providers to share the wealth they already have. Larger organizations have access to additional capacities that smaller organizations do not have. That could be leadership training, that could be (professional development) dollars, it could be research and development dollars, it could be people who are working at a policy level inside of organizations.
The focus is on how non-profits might work as a community; inspired by the idea of ‘collective enoughness’. By working together, the sector can look beyond serving individual mandates, board members, and clients to operate as an ecosystem.
