NPM800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organize, Rexdale, Poverty Reduction
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Building alliances and partnerships in the social sector. Challenges: organizations continue to receive funding but demands for services are, example according to a report from united way of toronto & york increasing and changing . Region, the majority of neighbourhoods in peel are now, for the first time ever, considered low-income. There"s been a substantial increase in the past three decades or so with low-income neighbourhoods jumping from two per cent in 1980 to 45 per cent in 2012 and hitting 52 per cent in 2015. Challenges: sometimes evolving needs discovered by one organization is seen as not fundable lack of evidence, credibility, niche issues. Example - women"s centre of york region founded in 1977, (wcyr) helps women 18 and older who live in the york region and face issues such as poverty, domestic abuse, mental or emotional health problems, and/or social isolation.
