WE INSPIRE SOCIAL CHANGE

Social Planning Council Oxford is a non-profit organization in Oxford County, Ontario that examines and illuminates the realities of poverty and marginalization.

Our goal is to shift understanding and inspire action for positive change.

We accomplish this through:

• Research and investigation of the social issues affecting community members
• Policy analysis and recommendations
• Collaboration and partnerships with other agencies, experts and policymakers
• Collaboration with people with lived experience as well as context experts to design and implement solutions
• Awareness building and advocacy locally, provincially and federally

We value the lived experience and insights of all community members. When it comes to community wellbeing, every person in Oxford County matters and should have a voice. Community collaboration is key to building a stronger oxford county.

We invite community members, community agencies and business leaders to embrace our work and leverage our expertise to create impact.

To learn more about Social Planning Council Oxford’s community impact, see our Impact Report or visit “Our Community Impact” under the About Tab.

“The expectation that collaboration can occur without a supporting infrastructure is one of the most frequent reasons why it fails. The backbone organization requires a dedicated staff separate from the participating organizations who can plan, manage, and support the initiative through ongoing facilitation, technology and communications support, data collection and reporting, and handling the myriad logistical and administrative details needed for the initiative to function smoothly.”

– Kania and Kramer, 2011 “Collective Impact”

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that we are working on Indigenous land that has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples from the beginning. We are grateful for the opportunity to meet here and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land – for thousands of years. Long before today, as we gather here, there have been Indigenous peoples who have been the stewards of this place. In particular, we acknowledge the traditional territory of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Attiwonderonk and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. We recognize and deeply appreciate their historic and current connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made and are making, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and our province and country as a whole. As settlers, this recognition of the current contributions and historic importance of Indigenous peoples must also be clearly and overtly connected to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities, and in particular to bring justice for murdered and missing indigenous women and girls across our country.