About the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership
The Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership (SPRP) is a multi-sector collaboration working to reduce and prevent poverty in Saskatoon. We bring together community organizations, governments, systems leaders, and people with lived experience to focus on the policies, practices, and conditions that shape poverty in our city.
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Our work is grounded in the understanding that poverty is not the result of individual failure. It is produced and sustained by systems that are often disconnected, rigid, or inequitable. SPRP exists to help align those systems, support shared priorities, and advance solutions that are informed by evidence and lived experience.​
​SPRP does not deliver direct services. We focus on convening partners, catalyzing action, coordinating efforts, and supporting collaboration across systems to create lasting change.
Our Four C's
The Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership organizes its work around four connected roles: Convene, Catalyze, Coordinate, and Collaborate. These roles reflect how change actually happens when complex systems are involved.
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Rather than working in isolation, the 4 C’s help SPRP bring the right people together, support momentum where it already exists, align efforts across sectors, and create shared responsibility for reducing and preventing poverty in Saskatoon. The work often spans more than one “C” at a time, because real progress rarely fits into neat categories.
Convene
Bringing community partners to the table to discuss the complexities of poverty in Saskatoon
Catalyze
Acting as a catalyst to accelerate and/or start a cause, an action or process, understanding that the work follows the energy.
Coordinate
Organizing and facilitating the sharing of information and resources so that we can accomplish our deliverables.
Collaborate
Inclusive engagement of people to create an environment conducive for achieving the common agenda of poverty elimination in Saskatoon.