We are excited to announce the results of this year’s Board Elections!
Every year, CCEDNet members are invited to submit nominations for CCEDNet’s Board of Directors. This year, there were four vacancies to be filled.
Five eligible nominations were received by the deadline, and online elections were held from May 8 to May 22, using STV (single transferable vote) for a ranked choice vote through the Montreal-based platform Simply Voting.
After reviewing the results, our Elections Officer declared the following candidates elected:
The results were ratified at CCEDNet’s Annual General Meeting on June 12th.
Member leadership is extremely important to how the Canadian CED Network functions. Congratulations to the newly elected members!
Derek Bassey
Originally from Nigeria, Derek Bassey moved to Canada to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration through the Canadian Mennonite University. Since May 2021, he has been working as the Finance Coordinator for Fireweed Food Co-op. To Derek, community economic development means relying less on globalization and more on local partners and players. He believes the heart of a community is people’s spirits, and they thrive best when they feel they are safe and encouraged to be themselves. When it comes to good governance, Derek believes the key is open communication, willingness to collaborate, and communicating through conflict. In his spare time, he likes to paint and listen to music.
Barb Rallison
Barb Rallison is a facilitator, educator and practitioner of social impact. In her role as Associate Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, Barb oversees several of the student-oriented and community-oriented social innovation and systems leadership initiatives offered through the Institute including Catamount, Systems Leadership Sandbox and StartWork. Previously, Barb worked for Momentum, a changemaking organization and long standing CCEDNet member. Her work at Momentum focused on strengthening support for social entrepreneurship both locally and provincially. Barb is also a co-founder of Local Investing YYC, an impact investment cooperative that provides capital to Calgary-based businesses generating social and environmental returns. She has also served on the board of Green Calgary and participated on the Benefit-Driven advisory taskforce with the City of Calgary.
Matthew Rempel
Matthew Rempel has been providing support to social enterprises in Manitoba for the past 8 years as a consultant in social enterprise development, marketing, leadership training, and media production. He presently works as the Operations Manager for Purpose Construction. He has previously provided paid and volunteer services to CCEDNet as a social enterprise development coach through the SPARK program, as a facilitator for workshops held both in person, and online, and as a presenter at The Manitoba Gathering.
Matthew’s experience in network development, strategic planning, organizational development support, and media production are elements he brings as a member of CCEDNet’s Board of Directors.
Noelia Delgado
Noelia Delgado is from Peru. She is trained in Business administration and has an MBA in Management counselling from the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université de Québec à Montréal. She has 16 years of experience in the field of community action and of the social economy and has extensive knowledge of the Quebec ecosystem. Currently employed by the Corporation de développement économique communautaire de Québec (CDÉC de Québec) she also worked for several years at the Chantier de l’économie sociale and the Coalition des organismes communautaires pour le développement de la main-d’œuvre (COCDMO). She also has international experience through her contributions to C.I.T.I.E.S (Centre international de transfert d’innovations et de connaissances en économie sociale et solidaire), GSEF (Global Social Economic Forum), FSMET (Forum mondial social des économies transformatrices) and RIPESS (Intercontinental network for the promotion of social solidarity economy).
Noelia believes that her involvement in the community development and social economy ecosystem in Quebec and internationally will be an added value to the Board of Directors. Her passion for getting involved and contributing to society’s development through the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion will allow her to collaborate with the various CCEDNet committees.
