About the CIP

An initiative that reflects Montreal’s neighbourhoods!

Credit: Valérie Paquette

CIP at a glance

What is the CIP:

Ten foundations committed to contributing $24.5 million to the project over five years

A shared goal of improving living conditions in all neighbourhoods and making lasting impacts on people.

A new model for collaboration between the community, philanthropic and institutional sectors.

An invitation for everyone to come together and experiment!

Neighbourhoods taking action to fight poverty and social exclusion.

The CIP is a living project that reflects Montreal.

It is also a way to reinvent funding methods and to work collectively on long-term initiatives for Montrealers that are local (for neighbourhoods) and regional (for the Island).

Discover the CIP’s history

The Collective Impact Project (CIP) was launched in 2015 in Montreal to strengthen collective action to combat poverty and social exclusion in the city's neighborhoods.  

The first phase from 2015 to 2021 supported 17 neighbourhoods and was a time when many lessons were learned. The second phase from 2022 to 2027 is open to all Montreal neighbourhoods that have a neighbourhood roundtable.

The large number of collective initiatives deployed in Montreal is a very promising mechanism for broadening and deepening the impacts of collective action to fight poverty and social exclusion on a regional scale. 

Meet the team

Rotem Ayalon

DIRECTOR
COLLECTIVE IMPACT PROJECT
Isabel Heck

HEAD OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
Claudia Santillana

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ADVISOR
Laurence Proulx

COMMUNICATIONS AND EVENTS OFFICER

The Collective Impact Project can count on the unfailing support of the Centraide of Greater Montreal teams, in particular our colleagues in the Social Development Department, to support its actions and, above all, the neighbourhoods in their collective impact initiatives.

Thank you!