What are the critical elements required to meaningfully tackle the roots of poverty in Toronto? Answering this question has been the key motivating factor behind our work in collaboration with community partners like yourselves, activists, local leaders, and residents with local and lived expertise. In this panel series, we are exploring how collective action and public policy can work in tandem to bolster one another and looking at successful movements, programs and initiatives that are underway and promising ones that are still being designed.

Since the pandemic, community-based organizations have seen the rapid increase of poverty and the toll it is having on our communities. Has Toronto reclaimed its title as the Child Poverty Capital of Canada? Join Social Planning Toronto, Campaign 2000 and Daily Bread Food Bank to hear the most recent statistics on child and family poverty and learn about the staggering rise in food bank usage. Join us as we explore what this means for our city and discuss how we can take action to advance the policy solutions and investments that are urgently needed to stem the growing rise in inequality.

Read more in our report, Fighting for Our Future: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2024

This is a recording of an event that took place on November 27, 2024.