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Posted March 2010

Welcoming Workplaces, Winning Workplaces

On November 9, 2007, the Cultural Coalition of Chatham-Kent, in partnership with the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition and others, presented “Welcoming Workplaces, Winning Workplaces”, a forum on cultural diversity in the workplace. The question posed to the audience was “Being successful in 2010 – Can your organization make it?”

The answer to this question was addressed by several speakers, each of whom identified the welcoming of diversity as a key factor in the successof businesses and organizations in the future.

Community Gardens Network Chatham-Kent

Imagine a community-based initiative that helps to improve nutrition for children and low-income families, provides proven therapeutic benefit for people with a wide variety of physical and cognitive impairments, creates strong connections between people of different ages, from different economic and cultural backgrounds, and improves the environment both aesthetically and ecologically. A number of community workers and volunteers in the sprawling Municipality of Chatham-Kent, in Southwestern Ontario, are doing more than imagining.

They're Building Community in Chatham-Kent

The folks in Chatham-Kent have figured out how to engage local citizens from the three sectors of the community (business, government and voluntary) and exciting things continue to happen!

Bringing Emergency Food Close to Home

posted March 2004
by Ted Town, Community Development Resource Coordinator
London Community Resource Centre

Consider the following scenario. Circumstances have forced you to go to the food bank. But, you and your young family have to take two or three buses across town to get there. The money for bus fare could better be used to buy food, but nobody seems to be paying attention to that fact, except for you.