The Bruce Grey Poverty Task Force
Visit the website for the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force for more information.
Vision:
The Poverty Task Force will reduce and eliminate poverty in our community.
Purpose:
The Poverty Task Force facilitates community partnerships to advocate for poverty reduction and elimination.
Values:
- Collaboration/Partnership
- Building trust and respect across community stakeholders through dialogue and purposeful partnerships.
- Understanding poverty issues and each other
- Working together to educate each other, share creative solutions and develop a common understanding of issues related to poverty.
- Equality/Justice
- Working to improve lives within the community, while ensuring the services are accessible, affordable, humanitarian, equitable, and provides choice.
- Advocacy
- Acting in partnership to leverage our community knowledge and expertise to advocate for change.
- Com(passion) for Change
- Acting with compassion to make meaningful change for individuals and families when they need it most.
- Collective Synergies
- Recognizing that our collective energies are greater than that of any individual. Individually we can do little, together we can move mountains.
Strategic Directions
- Build partnerships with key community stakeholders and networks and work together to eliminate poverty.
- Enhance our common understanding of poverty issues through solution-based research, knowledge development and information sharing.
- Create opportunities for community stakeholders to become involved in poverty elimination efforts.