Learn and Try

In the third phase of the Moving Mountains Initiative, the leadership team empowered and activated 5 Learn and Try Groups. The groups were convened in alignment with the thematic ‘opportunity spaces’ civil society had collectively named in earlier phases of the initiative. These included Mental Health and Wellness, Housing, Affordability and Livability, Indigenous and Local Economy, Cultural and Environmental Learning and Reconcili-ACTION.

The groups accepted the creative, collaborative challenge to “Learn and Try’ together – that is, to ‘learn’ together about the challenge and opportunity spaces as revealed earlier in the initiative;  to ‘learn’ together about possible shared goals and projects that might address community challenges, and to ‘try’ working across civil society organizations and groups to prototype and activate a collaborative initiative, project, program, service or enterprise, and to ‘try’ accessing shared supports through methods such as collaborative grant applications and social enterprise efforts.

The Moving Mountains Initiative provided financial, administrative, and human resource support to Learn and Try Groups that demonstrated capacity for innovating system infrastructure, shared service delivery models, and for projects that demonstrated readiness for social enterprise.