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We worked with Vancouver Foundation and Community Foundations Canada to develop podcasts, learning circles, and retreats that re-imagine the system of philanthropy.

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August 21, 2025

By Clarence Kitt

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We partnered with three disability service providers – posA, BACI, and Kinsight – to address social isolation & exclusion by building a platform connecting people with and with disabilities.

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August 21, 2025

By Clarence Kitt

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We partnered with the City of Edmonton to create a wellbeing framework and creatively engage the public in measuring wellbeing.

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August 21, 2025

By Clarence Kitt

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Partnership versus consultancy

What makes a partnership distinct from consultancy? Get beneath the rhetori!

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December 18, 2021

By Miki Stricker-Talbot, Natalie Napier

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The experience of partnership

Four years of learning about what makes partnership different from consultancy.

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December 17, 2021

By Natalie Napier, Miki Stricker-Talbot

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History in the making

A year-in-the-life of an IWF co-researcher and social research assistant!

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August 28, 2021

By Lauren Irvine

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How we failed and learned in 2020

What separates break throughs from break-ups? We share 3 lessons in courage from failure.

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January 14, 2021

By Sarah Schulman

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Five books for 2021

Five books that taught and tormented us in 2020, and we offer up to you!

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January 14, 2021

By Sarah Schulman

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Three big ideas for 2021

Three ideas, inspired by Alfred Adler, we are taking into 2021.

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January 13, 2021

By dr. Sarah Schulman

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Twenty-one questions for 2021

We'd describe our approach as inquiry-based. So what are our lines of inquiry for 2021?

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January 12, 2021

By Natalie Napier

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