To monitor and inform on cross-Ontario activity on the poverty reduction agenda

Blueprint Event Reports

Declaration of Young People with Developmental Challenges – Nov. 17

Three young people with developmental disabilities attended and actively participated in the Leadership Forum on Poverty Reduction held in Toronto on November 17, 2008. Cathy Lemon, Kenny Freeman, and Veronica Peake, all partners in a small catering enterprise called Lemon & Allspice – The Coffee Shed, framed their own declaration on poverty reduction in solidarity [...]

Poems on Poverty Set Tone for Blueprint (Cornwall)

About 50 people attended a community forum in Cornwall on November 19, including local city councillors, the Medical Officer of Health, teachers and ten students from St Lawrence Intermediate School. The students had participated in a Poem Contest on “Life without Poverty” held in October sponsored by the Social Development Council of Cornwall and Area. [...]

Blueprint Goes North

The 25 in 5 Network‘s cross-community Leadership Tour for the Blueprint for Poverty Reduction in Hard Times was officially launched at a Leadership Forum in Toronto on November 17 when more than 100 community leaders in the poverty reduction campaign came to Toronto for a full-day event. The Blueprint for Poverty Reduction in Hard Times [...]