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Organizational glossary of terms used on the Community Social Planning Council website

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The Community Social Planning Council uses the following terms in its reports and other writings. The accompanying definitions are not exhaustive, but attempt to convey the specific meaning the Community Social Planning Council implies when using the terms.

Appreciative Inquiry -

Baseline Assessment - a first measurement in an area or field to determine that area's profile of strengths and weaknesses at a particular time. Baseline assessments are used as a starting measure to assess progress in the area over a period of time.
Example: a baseline assessment of food security in British Columbia's Capital Region.

Coalition -

Collaboration -

Community Based Research -

Community Indicators -

Convening -

Disparity -

Facilitate -

Food Security - The state when there is universal access to food that is healthful, nutritious, safe, and culturally acceptable. In addition, in a food-secure community, the growing, processing and distribution of food is regionally-based, socially just and environmentally sustainable.

Inclusion -

Indicator -

Labour Market -

Lens -

Living Wage - Not the same as the minimum wage, which is the legal minimum employers must pay, the living wage reflects what earners in a family need to bring home, based on the actual costs of living in a specific community.

Multi-sectoral -

Partners -

Positive Deviants -

Quality of LIfe -

Roundtables -

Silos - Working in isolation. Can be working collectively in isolation – compartmentalizing.

Stakeholders - People who have a vested interest in your work.

Sustainability -