Changemaking Skills for Thriving Communities
Sharing Stories from Community Changemakers
This library is an evolving collaboration between community leaders, partners, and students, and strives to share the voices of people driving real, local change. Explore these stories to discover the ideas, projects, and people shaping our communities.
Shorts
Bite-sized clips that spotlight turning points, quotes, and tactics you can apply today.
Camille Currie Short
Sonia Furstenau Short
Fatima Da Silva Short
Michelle Staples Short
Jo Beattie Short
Series
Explore in-depth series that cover all aspect of changemaking.
Michelle Staples Series
In this series, Michelle Staples, Mayor of Duncan, discusses the regional initiative she was part of to respond to homelessness and addiction in her community. She describes working together with multiple levels of governments, First Nations, and organizations serving street entrenched people to develop a solution together. Michelle emphasizes the necessities of self-care, collaboration, and standing by causes you believe in.
3 videos
Chace Barber Series
In this series, Chace Barber, co-founder of Edison Motors, describes the successes and challenges of starting a business building the first electric hybrid trucks in Canada. He describes the pivotal role of making mistakes, collective ownership, and constantly asking “why?”.
5 videos
Changemakers in Context
This website was created to inspire collective learning about the “how” of building momentum towards communities that are safe, healthy, vibrant, just, and gentle in their relationships with the more than human world. Our goals are to: - To identify and amplify stories of community-scale innovation and action that offer insights about how to strengthen social bonds, address past and present injustices, protect our communities, and live more gently with the more than human world; - To build capacity, community, and momentum around transformative initiatives; - To build and tell new stories about what is desirable and possible in this moment such as how to strengthen democracy, and collectively realize alternatives. This is a home for interviews, shorts, and series that honour grassroots leadership. As the collection grows, it will offer educators, researchers, and organizers a place to learn from lived experience. To learn more about the history of the Changemakers Library and how you can engage with it, please see the About Page.