Constitutional purposes
The Society’s formal purpose statements.
Below is a website-ready presentation of the Society’s constitutional purposes so visitors can understand
both the public-facing mission and the formal nonprofit basis on which the organization operates.
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Applied research and participatory knowledge
Supporting evidence-informed planning, co-creation, evaluation, and community development.
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To conduct applied research and develop participatory, practice-based knowledge to support nonprofit
organizations, governments, municipalities, and community partners in evidence-informed planning, program
and service co-creation, participatory evaluation, asset-based community development and regeneration,
sustainable development, and the advancement of collective wellness, health equity, and community
well-being in British Columbia.
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Digital tools, data systems, and collaborative platforms
Enabling communities and organizations to access, share, and use social-impact information.
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To develop, maintain and operate digital tools, data systems, and collaborative platforms that enable
organizations, policymakers, and communities to access, share, and use information related to community
development and social impact.
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Programs, services, and resilience initiatives
Strengthening innovation and resilience across social, health, environmental, and place-based domains.
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To develop and implement programs, services, and initiatives that strengthen community resilience and
innovation, including initiatives related to social services and infrastructure, mental and physical
health, climate resilience and environmental sustainability, community recreation, social prescribing,
experiential therapies and learning, mobility and active transportation, housing and homelessness,
and place-making.
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Grassroots place-making and community activation
Supporting community-led design of public space, events, micro-infrastructure, and belonging.
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To support grassroots and community-led place-making and community activation through co-creative,
interdisciplinary, and intersectoral processes that build on local assets, cultural strengths, and lived
experience, including facilitating the community-led design of public spaces, events, and
micro-infrastructure that promote belonging, collective wellness, and place-based sustainable regeneration,
and that may integrate social prescribing and community-based learning opportunities.
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Public education, capacity building, and policy research
Advancing equity, evidence literacy, collaboration, and systems change.
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To promote public education, capacity building, and policy research to improve social, health,
environmental, and community outcomes, including providing training, resources, and community-based
learning opportunities that advance equity, diversity, and inclusion, strengthen evidence literacy related
to practice-based evidence, and support intersectoral collaboration to translate community practice into
policy and systems change.
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Nonprofit basis and use of resources
Ensuring all profits and accretions are used solely to advance the Society’s purposes.
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To operate on a nonprofit basis and to ensure that any profits or other accretions to the Society are
used solely for promoting the purposes of the Society.