Our guest at yesterday’s weekly meeting was Maureen Owens. Maureen is the Manager of Communities, Communities Ending Poverty at the Tamarack Institute. The Tamarack’s mandate is to develop and support collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across Canada and beyond. Communities Ending Poverty is a powerful collective impact movement of 330 municipalities and represented by 80 regional roundtables. It has been proven that to end poverty, it takes the whole community and our entire country working together. The Tamarack Institute’s members ensure that all sectors are brought to the table, harness the assets of their communities and drive long-term change as they develop and implement plans to reduce poverty in their communities. Between 2015 and 2018, The Tamarack Institute contributed to poverty being reduced for more than 1 million Canadians. We feel fortunate in knowing Maureen is doing this important work right here in our community. Thanks for enlightening us.