Our Team
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
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.
Current funders (at February 2024)
- BC Healthy Communities (PlanH)
- BC Non-profit Housing Association
- City of Vancouver
- City of North Vancouver
- City of New Westminster
- City of Surrey
- CMHC
- LandlordBC
- Metro Vancouver
- Mitacs
- SFU Community Engaged Research Initiative
- Tsawwassen First Nation
- Vancity Community Foundation
- Waltons Trust
Past funders
From friendly buildings to an emergent pilot project, a history of HNC
The Hey Neighbour Collective emerged from collaboration between staff involved in the City of Vancouver’s 2018-2019 Hey Neighbour! pilot project and a number of advisory committee members working on similar projects.
Footnotes
- “What is Collective Impact,” by Collective Impact Forum.