Our Team
Hey Neighbour Collective comprises of a small but mighty backbone team, a research and engagement team, demonstration partners, systems partners, advisors, and funders.
Backbone team
HNC’s small but mighty backbone team guides its many partners’ collective impact efforts. Backbone roles include:
What is a collective impact project?
A collective impact project is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.1
It has five fundamental conditions:
- It starts with a common agenda;
- It establishes shared measurement;
- It fosters mutually reinforcing activities;
- It encourages continuous communications;
- It has a strong backbone.
Research and engagement team
Demonstration partners
HNC’s demonstration partners are the real innovators, working with residents of multi-unit housing communities to build social connections and resilience. They share their learnings with support team members and each other through professionally facilitated community of practice sessions.
Systems partners
Our systems partners are all concerned, like HNC, about the troubling increase in loneliness and social isolation and see a role for landlords, property managers and non-profits to work within multi-unit housing contexts to build community, social connectedness and resilience. We value their financial and in-kind support and the ongoing dialogue about the systemic aspects of our work.
Advisors
Funders, Sustaining Partners & Sponsors (Current and Past)
A huge thank you to all funders. We wouldn’t be here without you! If you are interested in learning about funding opportunities, please contact Michelle Hoar, HNC’s Project Director.
- BC Non-profit Housing Association
- BC Centre for Disease Control (Facility Engagement)
- BC Housing Research Centre
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- Catherine Donnelly Foundation
- City of New Westminster
- City of North Vancouver
- City of Surrey
- City of Vancouver
- Innoweave
- LandlordBC
- MakeWay Foundation – Wonderful Life Fund
- Max Bell Foundation
- Metro Vancouver
- Mitacs
- Real Estate Foundation of BC
- SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- SVN Architects & Planners
- Tsawwassen First Nation
- United Way of Lower Mainland
- Vancity Community Foundation
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Victoria Foundation
- Waltons Trust
Footnotes
- “What is Collective Impact,” by Collective Impact Forum.