How we might reimagine and transform how the nonprofit sector co-creates thriving and resilient communities in the context of increasingly complex pressures and challenges?
The Nonprofit Resilience Lab took place over 3 years (2021-2024) in partnership with Trico Changemakers Studio at Mount Royal University to explore that question. Using a systems-based approach, the lab set out to deepen our understanding of the complex challenges facing the social sector and focused on building resilience.
Heartfelt thanks to our Guide Group and Co-Designers, who not only contributed their time, resources, insights and labour to this project, but who also embraced the complexity and uncertainty of the journey.
How do you end a lab?
Working in complexity means that there are not tidy conclusions and that the work will continue beyond the time frame and container of the lab. What we set out to do was to create a space and process where we could come together across typical boundaries, ask bold and provocative questions, have courageous conversations, test new ideas and ways of thinking, make mistakes, learn, unlearn, and learn some more, get up and try again.
Read our final report and wrap up reflections below.