Actions Shaping a Stronger Region

Explore the programs and Initiatives driving leadership, change, and action across our region.

Programs

Building leaders. Strengthening networks.

Our programs are pathways for individuals and organizations to grow their leadership, connect across sectors, and contribute to meaningful change.

Step Into Leadership

DiverseCity Fellows

DiverseCity Fellows is a transformative leadership experience for diverse rising leaders who want to supercharge their leadership skills, deepen their networks, and make positive community impact.

Who it’s for: Leaders with demonstrated experience in civic-engagement in the region

Grow Your Impact

Emerging Leaders Network

A community for rising leaders to build skills, relationships, and confidence while contributing to civic life.

Who it’s for: Emerging leaders across sectors

Build Experience

Youth CivicCorps

Hands-on volunteer placements that help young people gain experience, skills, and pathways into civic careers.

Who it’s for: Young adults aged 18–30

Get Board Ready

BoardShift

Online, self-paced learning program developed with governance experts to prepare participants for effective board service.

Who it’s for: Equity-deserving professionals

Initiatives

Advancing affordability across the GTHA.

Affordability emerged as a defining challenge at the 2023 CivicAction Summit — intersecting with economic inclusion, trust, and regional alignment. As an immediate and urgent expression of the affordability challenge, CivicAction narrowed its focus to housing affordability.

Make an Impact

Housing Affordability

Bring together leaders across sectors to mobilize collective action to support affordability for middle-income workers and households.

Who it’s for: Leaders from across sectors—development, finance, construction, academia, non-profit, philanthropy, and government

A different kind of civic engine

Summit

Our work is grounded in a simple belief: when people work together across difference, change becomes possible. The CivicAction Summit is where collaboration becomes momentum.

Who it’s for: Established leaders to emerging voices

Our Impact, Together

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Our Past Initiatives

Explore archived programs that helped shape leadership and collaboration across our region.

CivicMatch

In response to a global conversation on systemic racism, leaders and organizations have committed to working harder to take real and meaningful action.

MindsMatter

The opportunity for action lay in 2016 research from the Canadian Mental Health Association that showed forty-two percent of Canadian business leaders wanted to take action to address workplace mental health but hadn’t yet due to barriers such as lack of time, resources, or know-how.

Re:Action Forum

The Forum focused on three interconnected opportunities: helping young adults enter or re-enter the workforce; supporting mental wellbeing and combating loneliness; and building and maintaining trust in our communities and leaders.

Whether you’re strengthening your leadership through a program or engaging with an initiative advancing regional priorities, you are part of a broader effort to shape a more inclusive and livable GTHA.