Many people living in the north of McKnight communities are passionate about creating a stronger, more connected community.
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Being gentler with the earth and leaving a greener world can start right in your own backyard.
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If you’re a Calgarian wanting to make meaningful change in your community by starting or building a business, Thrive is here to help you succeed.
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Calgarian Quan Ly was always a good student, but his parents didn’t know how they could afford to send him to university.
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How do you teach dignity, understanding and respect to the next generation, so they’ll have good relationships with people outside their own communities?
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Building Sacred Bridges – an interfaith musical experience – is a goodwill event uniting culture, faith and community.
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What can Calgarians do to support Indigenous families heal from intergenerational trauma? What does putting a call to action into action, actually look like?

These were some of the questions posed by Calgarians at Reconciliation Journey: Walking a Path Together
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Whether someone has been clean for five hours or five years, getting and staying sober is something each person needs to do for themselves.

“You need to step up, be your own hero, show up for your own life and do what you need to do in order to move forward,” says Charlotte Yellowhorn McLeod, Indigenous cultural coordinator at Aspen Family & Community Network Society, one of more than 20 organizations that helped organize and fund Calgary’s 21st annual Wellness Walk for sobriety earlier this month.
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When people point to a lack of funding, poor marketing or a faulty product as the reason behind a business failure, they’re laying the blame on all the wrong reasons, because these are all symptoms, not the disease. “The disease is not knowing your own impact on your own business,” says Shane Wallace, CEO of
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When Sean Crump goes out for dinner or drinks, he’ll always call ahead to confirm that the venue is wheelchair accessible. But even when the reply is “no problem,” he’ll often discover on arrival that there’s a step or two to get in the door, that all the tables are high, or there is no accessible washroom or the washroom is located down a flight of stairs. “That kind of puts a damper on the night,” says Sean, 32, who is a quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair.
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Language matters. . . especially when it is your language in a new land. A significant asset of the 1000 Voices collaborative community hub is the welcoming staff members who are able to speak three to four languages each including Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Farsi and Pahari.
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Acadia Place resident Ginny Tremblay, a mother of four who is Anishinabe, believes it’s critical for Calgarians to come together to change the future for Indigenous people.
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A new and sustainable future of prosperity and self-reliance for the people of Chiniki First Nation. This is the vision of the Chiniki Trico Corporation, a unique collaboration between Chiniki First Nation and the Trico Group of Companies.
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Deer Run is fast becoming a ‘Hub’ of the community in southeast Calgary.

Thanks to ‘The Hub,’ a new community resource centre, residents are coming together to build a neighborhood that’s more active, vibrant and diverse than ever before.
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The Indigenous Advisory Committee of Vibrant Communities Calgary is hosting Reconciliation Journey: Walking a Path Together, funded by the Enough For All Catalyst Fund, as well as the Calgary Foundation and Suncor.

The second of two conferences organized by the Indigenous Advisory Committee this year, Reconciliation Journey: Walking a Path Together is designed to help Calgarians understand the 94 calls to action and get connected to the reconciliation work taking place in the city.
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Now is the time to take action and find new ways of doing things, to strengthen Indigenous communities in Canada who are creating a better, more prosperous future.
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You can find out more about what people from across Canada are doing to create thriving, prosperous communities at EconoUs2017, a national multi-day conference taking place in Calgary in mid-September.
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When Hasan Syed first heard about the water crisis facing many First Nations communities, he was shocked that such conditions even existed in Canada.
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icrolending. Local investing. Social finance. Food security. These are some of the tools that are being used by leaders in communities across the country to create an economy that emphasizes shared prosperity for all Canadians. These are just a few of the topics that will be front and centre at EconoUs2017, a national conference in
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Mealshare is a social enterprise that feeds youth & children locally, and internally!
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When it comes to finding solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems, people need to talk with each other more, find common ground, and support each other in making positive change. People need to work together – and everyone needs to be involved.

Those were some of the key messages at the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation’s second annual Environmental Gathering: Breaking Through, which took place last month.
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Anyone can act to change the world for the better, using the tools, skills, education and resources they have right now.

“It’s about people making new choices,” says architect and ‘placemaker’ Mark Lakeman, a leader in the development of sustainable public places in the U.S. and Canada. “Community building is a consciousness project. Consciousness can actually shift to a place with such joy that it really is irrepressible.”
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