Make Your Voice Heard: Community Hubs
The Premier of Ontario recently appointed Karen Pitre as Special Advisor to Chair a Premier’s Community Hub Framework Advisory Group. Their mandate is to review provincial policies and develop a framework for identifying areas where the province can support local efforts to create community hubs.
To get a broad range of perspectives, the Advisory Group (which includes those with nonprofit experience) will review extensive research and existing examples, and consult with community groups and other partners. The ideas they gather will inform the government’s approach to assist with the evolution of community hubs.
They they need to hear from public and school libraries about the successful hub models already flourishing, and what’s important for this strategy moving forward. That’s why FOPL is working with Karen and the Advisory Group to help compile lessons and context from nonprofits we know are engaged in community hubs – as libraries have been a prime example for years.
ONN designed this in-depth survey with Karen’s office to help nonprofits get their voices heard.
Fill out the survey by June 5 – get your voice heard!
The results of the survey will go directly to the government, as well as to ONN’s policy team, and we’ll each be doing analysis. Based on the survey results and other perspectives we hear through the network, FOPL will also be making a formal submission with a library sector-wide lens. We’ll also be listening for what the nonprofit sector can do together to support the development and resilience of community hubs.
Click here to give your feedback to ONN and the government’s Community Hubs Advisory Group
Please share with your networks, too, so they can share their perspectives!