Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change

The Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) network is an organization in Ontario working to build concrete strategies, tools, initiatives and community-based capacity through which individuals, groups and NGO’s ( especially those reflective of the affected racialized communities ) can begin to develop coherent shared action plans, including creating effective coordinated strategies for collaborating with mainstream policy analysts and institutions, anti-poverty advocacy groups, governments, funders and the media so as to best work together to address and redress this disturbing and growing structural or systemic ethno-racial inequality. The COP-COC Steering Committee membership currently includes Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services, the African Canadian Legal Clinic, the Canadian Arab Federation, the Chinese Canadian National Council – Toronto Chapter, the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, the Hispanic Development Council, Karuna Community Services, the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, Midaynta Community Services, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, Sistering, the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office – together with an academic member – Professor Grace-Edward Galabuzi from Ryerson University in Toronto.