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INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY PROSPERITY - ANNUAL REPORT 2023/2024

24 Sep 2024

Other major supporters through the of community, pulsing transition of the Institute from Nonprofit to with original thinkers Community Prosperity included the McConnell and life-changing teach- Foundation, The Calgary Foundation, and Trico ers – students, faculty, (both Trico Homes and Charitable Foundation, staff, alumni, and learn- which of course made the creation of the ing-oriented community. [...] Unlike a pitch competition, design sprint, or hackathon, students in the competition are evaluated based not on a ‘solution’ to a problem, but rather on the breadth and depth of understanding of the problem, as well as the nature, diversity, efficacy and relationships of current interventions trying to alleviate or ‘solve’ the problem (whether by governments, NGOs, social movements or the marketpl. [...] The Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MRU, the United ATCO Spacelab will also move from a sponsor to a Way of Calgary and Area, and the Banff Canmore co-host and co-convener of the event, partly with the Community Foundation. [...] The vision and Tim Lipp who respectively managed and of the Centre is to catalyze a trust-based, relation- programmed the activities of the Centre. [...] FUTURES COMMONS In partnership with the Royal Society of Arts (The RSA), a nearly three-hundred-year-old global network of change-makers enabling people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony, the Institute co-convened a series of conversations in the spring of 2023 focused on surfacing the notion of a “future commons”.

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