The Tomorrow Project
What if the nonprofit sector worked together,
not just side by side?
Every organization in Wood Buffalo serves part of our community. You have people with needs you serve, and you do that work through programs, projects, and initiatives.
The Tomorrow Project is how organizations across the region work on that together, instead of each figuring it out alone.
Why The Tomorrow Project Exists
In 2020, organizations across the sector told us the same thing in different ways: people are doing good work, but doing it stretched thin, disconnected from each other, and without much room to plan past the next funding cycle. Good work was getting missed or duplicated simply because organizations didn't have an easy way to compare notes.
The Tomorrow Project brings organizations that serve the same people together — around children and youth, mental health, seniors -- to agree on what's working, what needs support to keep going, and what's missing.
How It Works
FuseSocial organizes the work and keeps it moving: setting up the conversations, keeping track of what's agreed, and making sure something comes of the time organizations put in. The organizations themselves decide what the priorities are and who's best placed to carry each one.
What We’ve Done So Far
Organizations serving children and youth, mental health, and seniors have worked together through the process and come out with a shared, specific picture of their priorities. Over 50 local agencies have collaborated through The Tomorrow Project to date!
Special thanks to subsector committee leads: The Hub, CMHA Wood Buffalo, and St. Aidan's Society.
Collaboration That’s Built To Last
Turnover happens. Staff change roles, retire, and sometimes leave the region. Too often, collaboration is held together by a handful of key relationships, which means it unravels when those individuals leave. The Tomorrow Project brings organizations together around shared priorities, shared measurement, and shared work, building the systems, practices, and connections that outlast any one person. When collaboration lives in how organizations operate rather than who they happen to know, momentum carries through the change.
Spotlight: Seniors Subsector Collective Impact Initiative
The Seniors Subsector represents the Tomorrow Project's most mature collective impact initiative to date — a meaningful milestone in a multi-year process that continues to grow across the sector.
Wood Buffalo is home to a growing population of older adults. Through the Tomorrow Project, nine organizations serving seniors came together to form the Seniors Subsector Collective Impact Initiative, building a unified, inclusive approach to supporting older adults across the region.
Their shared mission: ensure every senior in Wood Buffalo can age with dignity, autonomy, and connection.
Founding partners:
St. Aidan's Society, Golden Years Society, YMCA of Northern Alberta, Nistawoyou Association Friendship Centre, Multicultural Association of Wood Buffalo
Expanded contributors:
Some Other Solutions, Support Services Wood Buffalo, Royal Canadian Legion McMurray Branch 165, McMurray Métis
Shared Priorities
Access to Services
Improve awareness and navigation of health, housing, and support services.
Social Participation
Reduce isolation through inclusive programs and intergenerational connection.
Dignity and Inclusion
Centre older adults in decision-making and create respectful spaces for aging.
Safety and Mobility
Promote age-friendly infrastructure, transportation, and community safety.
Together, these partners developed a collective action plan to address service gaps and improve quality of life for older adults across the region. The initiative is community-driven, culturally safe, inclusive, and built to last.
The Next 10: Shaping the Community Safety and Social Well-Being Plan
In 2025, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) spent the summer asking residents across the region what safety and well-being looks like for them — conducting surveys, pop-ups, focus groups, and conversations across the community. Responses from 3,466 people were collected. Early in 2026, the RMWB drafted a plan describing what it understood the community's needs to be, and what programs and services it believed existed to meet them. Executive Directors across the sector said the organizations doing the work need to help shape that plan — and in July, Council agreed, directing Administration to work with FuseSocial, United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo, and the Wood Buffalo Community Foundation to do exactly that, using The Tomorrow Project as a vehicle to drive that work. This fall we are working to shape what the next 10 years of community safety and well-being look like.
Thank You for Supporting This Work
Whether you represent a nonprofit, a funding body, a business, or the broader community, there is a role for you in this work. Reach out to learn how your organization can participate in the Tomorrow Project.