Toronto City Summit Alliance

CivicAction (legal name the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, formerly the Toronto City Summit Alliance) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization coalition based in Toronto that works with senior and emerging leaders from the business, government, labour, academic and community sectors to address urban challenges in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

CivicAction is a non-profit, non-partisan organization formed to address challenges to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area's social and economic future. It was created by David Pecaut following a 2002 summit of business and community leaders. Pecaut led a 40-member steering committee that generated Enough Talk: An Action Plan for the Toronto Region, which provided the roadmap for the organization's focus on issues where there was a clear consensus for action and where it felt progress could be made quickly. CivicAction adopted its current name in December 2010.

Following Enough Talk, the committee created a non-profit corporation to convene leaders from all sectors to work together to tackle specific social and economic challenges.

CivicAction is led by a Board of Directors and a small team of dedicated staff led by current CEO Sevaun Palvetzian.

Past and present Board Chairs:

Every four years, CivicAction holds a summit to identify the biggest issues facing the region. Out of the summit, CivicAction sets its agenda for the next four years and launches initiatives and campaigns to help tackle these issues. These summits bring hundreds of civic leaders from the business, industry, academic, non-profit and community sectors to collaborate, connect and provide insight on what next steps should be considered.

The fourth CivicAction Summit "Better City Bootcamp" was held on April 28, 2015 and focused on the following five interrelated themes:

The CivicAction Leadership Foundation is the charitable arm of CivicAction and was launched in 2017. It is a registered charity with its own Board of Directors that provides leadership programs in the GTHA. The Foundation's mission is to develop diverse leadership within the region and to provide a platform for greater inclusion and empowerment of all voices in the GTHA.

DiverseCity Fellows is an award-winning fellowship program for diverse rising leaders in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The Fellowship came out of DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, a partnership between Maytree and CivicAction, which identified the need for more diverse leadership in the GTHA. The program focuses on inclusive leadership and provides participants with opportunities for personal development. It also focuses on growing a strong network of civic-minded peers across sectors. Each year, the program selects approximately 25 rising leaders who represent all sectors and communities within the GTHA. To date, over 200 individuals have completed the DiverseCity Fellows program.

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