The first in a series of activities planned in the context of the PRI's project on the social management of risk, the purpose of this event was to identify: 1) the drivers of change that could impact the community sector in responding to various life course risks that Canadians face, 2) current innovative approaches to respond to these social challenges and mechanisms to foster social innovation, [...] Though its genesis preceded that crisis, the PRI's project on the Social Management of Risk is designed to explore ongoing trends that, over the medium- to long-term, may be altering the comparative strengths and weaknesses of individual Canadians themselves, their families and networks of friends and acquaintances, the community sector, the market sector and governments in "managing" the evolving [...] The community sector stream of research under the overall Social Management of Risk project is intended to explore the extent to which the evolving nature of such risks – and their interaction with the evolving pattern of strengths and weaknesses of the community sector, writ large – can be expected to translate into: • changes in the role of the sector (either acting alone or in partnership with [...] This report summarizes the discussions of the event and sketches out possible follow-up activities for the PRI and "knowledge commons" to pursue in the context of the community sector stream of the social management of risk project. [...] On a more sombre note, others cautioned that formal community organizations, in particular, are not immune to the impacts of the shifts in the socio-economic and demographic landscape – including the impacts of expected declines in the number of volunteers, an eventual return to tighter labour markets, the increasingly diverse needs of those they serve, a growing need to partner with a multitude o