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Strategically Enabling Community Engagement & Equitable Innovation
Specializing in leading conversations about anti-oppression, decolonization and equity; motivating these changes into action.
What We Do
Community Impact is committed to placing community-engaged arts practice at the heart of what we do.
Parul Pandya founded Community Impact Consulting wanting to grow the knowledge of how to work with racialized communities in culturally competent and responsive ways.
With over 20 years servicing the non-profit sector as a programmer, producer and community educator, Parul is committed to serving conversations encouraging cooperation and innovation toward positive social change.
Our Offerings
Workshops
Training staff and boards to work more cooperatively towards healthier organizational and community relationships.
Our most popular offering: Understanding & Applying Anti-Oppression. This workshop has been offered to 2500+ learners, from educational institutions to private clients in the arts, entertainment and social services sectors.
Strategic Planning
Helping organizations to think and act strategically, through articulating a clear, concise vision for the future and developing productive strategies to achieve their goals.
This includes a thorough organizational assessment that examines strengths and weaknesses, interviewing community and other stakeholders.
Professional Facilitation
Leading productive dialogue on complex social justice issues and mediating difficult conversations for organizations to foster collaborative, productive atmospheres.
From Our Feed
Our Commitment
It is critical we understand the magnitude of the need for these systemic oppressions that have kept Black bodies from liberation. We are not free until we are all free and Black Lives have always mattered. Community Impact is dedicated to meaningful allyship with the Black activists, artists and communities we get to work with and for. We are dedicated to standing against anti-Black racism.
We would also like to talk about our responsibility and not only acknowledge our responsibility to Indigenous sovereignty. We work with communities on Turtle Island, which existed long before Upper and Lower Canada were even “found.” Situated in Toronto, Community Impact serves on the traditional territories that have been home to the Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, we operate in the meeting place of Tkaronto, which is still the home to many Indigenous people.
Our Indigenous people have inherited deep intergenerational trauma and been severely neglected by Canada, we must remember to voice this injustice. We are each responsible to carry out the work needed in the spirit of true reconciliation.
