Whether your organization’s strength lies in organizing around lived experience of housing precarity, responding to the impacts of extreme climate events, a commitment to the common good, or advancing policy solutions at the municipal level, the Housing Civic Academy and Climate Civic Academy series will equip you with new relationships and a shared strategy to build the power needed to drive real change in Metro Vancouver. Across both academies, participants will deepen their understanding of how municipal policies shape housing and climate outcomes, and work together to develop coordinated civic action ahead of the municipal election. You will emerge with a clear sense of the collective impact our Alliance can have, and a concrete plan to advance housing justice and climate action in this critical election year.

Based on the Industrial Areas Foundation's (IAF) 85+ years of experience uniting communities to create meaningful social change, this training provides an introduction to the IAF foundational leadership practices and principles of community organizing. If you have not taken this training in the last 6 months and/or are new to MVA, this is the training for you! You will get an overview of the basics of how MVA organizes, and get caught up to speed on where we are in our work right now.

The National and Regional Training sessions are an intensive 5-day program for people committed to understanding the craft, theory and practices of community organising; power, leadership, interest, relationships and organisation. NOTE: Participants are recommended to have completed the two-day Foundations of Community Organizing training prior to this session.

Our society needs emerging leaders. MVA needs emerging leaders. And those leaders deserve strong mentoring and resources to grow their impact. That’s why we’re investing in younger leaders, not only for the work of Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA), but also to strengthen their broader roles in society.

Learn the most globally renowned method of community organizing with the Industrial Areas Foundation.

The purpose is to address the legacies of colonialism through collaborative action with Indigenous leaders and organizations.