About the CIP

All the partners involved in the PIC governance bodies mobilized between autumn 2023 and autumn 2024 to clarify what we wanted to achieve together through phase 2 and how we were going to go about it.

This process has enabled us to refine the objectives set out in the initial agreement for phase 2 of the CIP, and to complete the preliminary vision developed in the summer of 2022. It represents a collective commitment, involving a number of strategies and effects that concern both the work of field initiatives and that of governance bodies. It is an attempt "to overcome a lack of reciprocity often blamed on the philanthropic milieu, namely holding funded organizations accountable for achieving effects without committing itself to doing the same"(Heck, 2024: 6).

Finally, completing this vision at a time when the majority of neighborhoods were already well underway enabled us to "formulate strategies that correspond to the practices deployed or desired by the various partners involved in CIP. They represent an adaptation of the conditions for collective impact to the Montreal context. Moreover, the effects are also sufficiently broad and flexible to incorporate the diversity of practices and changes made at the different scales of the project, in a bottom-up logic"(Heck, 2024: 6).