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Community Works Manitoba Inc. is a not-for-profit community development and training organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Over the past 30 years we have worked with program administrators, front line staff and community volunteers in First Nation communities and urban social service agencies to develop and deliver a wide range of economic and healing and wellness initiatives.
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Whether the focus is on economic or social challenges, we always begin by inviting participants to share stories from their own lives and from the lives of their ancestors. We believe that it is our own stories that hold the wisdom we need to create safer, more just, and healthier futures.
VISION
Community Works envisions a society in which individuals, families, and communities apply their stories, wisdom, and strengths to address critical challenges and to help build safer, more just, and healthier futures.
MISSION
We create spaces for addressing challenges and celebrating accomplishments through sharing stories and diverse perspectives. Our workshops provide individuals and groups with tools to imagine new possibilities and engage in individual and collective change.
CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS
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Who are the storytellers in your community?
Community Works Manitoba invites Winnipeg agencies to partner with us on a storytelling project. We will work with you to prepare a Winnipeg Foundation Community Grant due on March 27, 2026. Time is short so let us know asap.
We welcome the storytellers in your community to gather together to listen deeply to themselves and to each other as they explore a significant theme in their life journey.
You chose the story theme that matters to agency staff and the people you support. Story themes from past projects include: Home & Community, Culture & Identity, Our Connection to the Earth at this Time of Climate Crisis, Let Justice Roll, Gender & Identity, The Legacy of Residential Schools, and Our Healing Journey, … or any theme that matters to your community.
You choose the storytelling medium for the project - any or all of the following: Oral storytelling, writing, visual art, and short video production.
“I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away
and bring you back better made". - Tommy Orange, author of There There.
If you are outside of Winnipeg and are interested in partnering with us on a story project, contact us to explore other funding options.
Community Works would be pleased to visit your organization and deliver a presentation on our transformative approach to story work.
Examples of video stories
from our workshops
UPCOMING EVENTS
"We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”