Community Champions: How The Happy Community Project Works In Your Community

In an Era of Disruption, How do you Create a Happy Community?

How do you create a community that remembers what communities are about – citizens taking care of each other?

The first step is step up as a Community Champion who cares and who wants change.

You may say – “What, who me?”

It’s like other things – it seems impossible until you know how – and you have the backup support. And then it’s simple.

You are the right person if you:

Care about your community
Have a minimum of 2 hours per week for your community
Have influence with a few others who also care about your community

You are not alone, we make sure you have the support, the knowledge and the resources. Most importantly, we make sure it fits into your available time.

The Happy Community Project is successful because community champions have everything they need and it do not require huge investments in time.

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Wondering if you’re ready to help your community achieve the vision you have in mind? Curious what sort of initiative that would require? Take the Happy Community Quest! A fun and easy 5 minute self-assessment to help you understand your strengths and areas of opportunity around effective change.

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Build A Strong Foundation

Happy Communities are communities built on a solid foundation of connectedness, belonging and caring.

Researchers tell us that these are the fundamental building blocks for Happy Communities.

When citizens feel they belong, are connected and can find meaning in helping others, communities thrive, people are energized and people feel safe.

The Happy Community Project provides Community Champions with the tools to build a strong foundation for their community.

On this foundation, community pride blossoms, newcomers want to join the community, businesses open up and bring new employment. The community develops a sense of self-determination. And the other important factors for a wellbeing and resilient community fall into place.

“A core group of seven women had their own reservations about the project. Within an hour of the start of the first meeting, all the women were totally onboard. (We want to) make Stewiacke more like it used to be; the place where I grew up and where just about everyone was involved in the community.”
– Wendy Robinson, Mayor of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia

The Happy Community Project is a Tool Kit

We have developed the Happy Community Project Tool Kit. This Tool Kit is complete with everything that is needed so that every community can apply it. It’s designed to be simple to use while getting real results that matter. And it is designed to bring you, the user with the satisfaction of doing something that really matters – something big while at the same time easily doable.

The Happy Community Project Tool Kit increases the strength, depth and breadth of social connection within the community. The process does not depend on culture and is adaptable to all communities. Most importantly, it is easy to use.

The Happy Community Project results have been recognized by government and university experts at such preeminent universities like Dalhousie, Yale, St Mary’s and Acadia.

Without the Happy Community Project, we would be a shell of what we are today. The Happy Community Project should be in every community across Canada. It just makes sense.
– Abraham Zebian, Warden of West Hants Nova Scotia

Want to be a champion but need to be sponsored?

Our Community Hero program can help match your ideas with a local business willing to sponsor your idea.

Info for companies that can sponsor you

How Does it Work?

The goal is to develop strong social connections throughout the community. These social connections are developed when citizens do things together consistently over time. The projects are designed so that people can and want to work and play together and, in the process, develop relationships that connects the community together.

The spark that lights the fire is the Community Champion.

What can you expect?

As Community Champion, you will not be alone. We will help you develop a Core Group of citizens and together you will share the work, share the joy and share the accomplishment of transforming your community. We know people have other commitments. The program is designed to accommodate people with lots of passion and limited time.

Although the process works the same in every community, how the community uses it is always unique to each community. In this way, it always respects local culture and utilizes local resources.

And it always focuses on results that strengthen connectedness, belonging and caring.

In other communities:

New people moved in (people like living in Happy Communities)
New businesses opened up
Divisiveness disappeared
Volunteerism went way up (one community had 600 new volunteers show up)
Community pride blossomed
The community became a can-do community with confidence in its future.

Every community can afford to be a Happy Community.

Bring THCP To Your Community

Adrienne Wood – community leader and business person – Windsor NS

Talk about making positive ripples! I’ve never heard so much positive chatter about Windsor in my whole life. I love it.
– Adrienne Wood, community leader and business person, Windsor, Nova Scotia

How do we implement our own Happy Community Project?

We will walk you through everything you need to make the decision to bring the Happy Community Project to your community.

The Problem

Most people believe that there is nothing they can do that will make a difference. All they can do is little things and have hope that their governments, big businesses and NGOs will provide for their wellbeing. They are too busy, too stressed and too isolated to do anything about it themselves.

Many communities have made themselves vulnerable and reduced their general wellbeing by leaving it to other institutions to take care of the most fundamental thing that makes a community a community. That is – to know each other, care about each other, and look out for each other. The Happy Community Project rebuilds and strengthens the foundation on which strong Happy Communities are built. It connects all people together across diversity.

It puts the destiny of the community into the hands of its citizens.

The Solution

The Happy Community Project provides the processes, resources and support that increases the social connections within a community. The process is designed so that most citizens in a community want to be part of the Happy Community Project and have something that they can contribute.

The process is designed so that it is a benefit, not a hardship for citizens to participate.

The reality is that people are busy, stressed and over committed. The Happy Community Project makes it fun and easy to participate. The Happy Community Project accommodates and includes everyone in participating. People do not need a lot of money, or be highly educated or be highly mobile. Each person brings what they have in ability and it is this diversity that builds strength into the community.