Working alongside others toward shared aims.
Across Ontario, the Institute works alongside neighbourhood organizations, schools, agencies of civil society, faith communities, and government bodies — wherever the aims of the wider society overlap with our own. The work belongs to no single group.
How we work with partners
We approach partnership in a spirit of humility and learning. We do not arrive with programmes to deliver; we arrive with friends to introduce, with materials to share, and with experience of how children, junior youth, and youth in our neighbourhoods have responded to the institute process.
In Ontario, partnerships have taken many forms: a community centre hosting a junior youth group in its evening hours; a school inviting an animator to lead a values-based discussion club; a local agency working with us on a service project in a neighbourhood we both serve; a place of worship sharing space for a devotional gathering.
What we don't do
We are not a service-delivery organization, and we are not a religious institution in search of converts. The Bahá'í community is committed to remaining outside partisan politics and we work alongside partners on the basis of shared aims and mutual respect, not in pursuit of an institutional advantage.