SPROUT: Resources for Social Change
Cultivate your know-how with practical guides and tools for community development!
SPROUT is a collection of resources to help create change in communities. You will find hands on, step-by-step, tools that have been developed and informed by community practitioners.
- Digital Storytelling Inventory
- How to Understand the Cost of Living in Your Community
Digital Storytelling Inventory
June 2010 - The digital storytelling landscape in BC can be difficult to connect into. There is no one source for information and what does exist is often scattered and informal. This inventory is meant to be an initial access point for people interested in learning more about digital storytelling and its applications to health promotion and community development in BC. Click on the link to download the publication:
Digital Storytelling Inventory
A resource guide for designing a community indicator project - April 2008
Tools for Action: A Resource Guide for Designing a Community Indicator Project
This resource guide was developed with a view to facilitating the achievement of three learning objectives for the reader:
• To acquire introductory knowledge of key concepts used to discuss indicators and indicator projects;
• To develop an awareness of resources for ongoing learning about indicators and indicator projects;
• To gain understanding of one methodological approach to designing and implementing a community indicator project.
Planning an intercultural dialogue series between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples - May 2008
Building Bridges Together 1: Workbook
This workbook was developed with a view to facilitating the achievement of two learning objectives for the reader:
• To understand the strengths and weaknesses of one’s own intercultural work competencies;
• To gain knowledge of a general framework for organizing, implementing and evaluating an intercultural dialogue series.
Building Bridges Together 2: Resource Guide
This resource guide was developed with a view to facilitating the achievement of three learning objectives for the reader:
• To understand some of the key concepts, as well as the historical and contemporary developments that typically inform discussions about intercultural work between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in BC;
• To gain an awareness of the diverse perspectives and lived experiences inherent to intercultural work between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in BC;
• To acquire information about online and text resources that relate to intercultural work between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in BC.
On the Project Diversity web page you will find resources related to Project Diversity, a project facilitated by SPARC BC from January to June, 2010.
Click on the link to go to Project Diversity
How to Understand the Cost of Living in Your Community
A Guidebook on Conducting Affordability Studies.
How to Understand the Cost of Living in Your Community
This guidebook discusses different ways of measuring poverty in Canada and describes how to conduct an affordability study for your community. By using this guide book, you will:
• Acquire knowledge about different approaches to measuring poverty in Canada;
• Understand the market basket measure methodology for conducting affordability studies;
• Develop skills to design and implement an affordability study for your community;
• Engage options for how to use the results of an affordability study to address issues of poverty and low income in your community.