Poverty is a systemic issue that impacts every aspect of society and cannot be solved without collective action. Our goal is to demonstrate how collective action works to change lives for the better in Bruce and Grey Counties.
In 2019, we set a baseline for our first Impact Report with data collected from local data and Statistics Canada (2016 survey results released in 2019).
The Impact Report 2020 was developed in partnership with Tamarack Institute under their Getting to Impact course, part of the Foundations for Collective Impact. Tamarack Institute is a powerful collective impact movement comprised of 330 municipalities and represented by 80 regional poverty reduction roundtables across Canada. The Poverty Task Force is a member of Tamarack Institute’s Communities Ending Poverty.
We released the Impact Report in January 2020 just a month before the Pandemic. During the Pandemic we saw a decrease in poverty rates in Canada due to income benefits such as the CERB. Post-Pandemic we have seen a significant increase in poverty rates, homelessness and health inequities. These changes are reflected in our Annual Reports.
Read our 2025 Annual Report released on 2 February 2026. Read our previous reports:
We would like to thank the Community Foundation Grey Bruce for its support in the production of our first Impact Report.