Author: Katherine
From Third Sector Online A support service to help communities take ownership of their resources was launched last week by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The Community Shares…
Start a dialogue about housing and homelessness in your community. Host a screening of the Home Safe Documentary The Home Safe documentary film is a powerful educational resource on the…
The Canadian CED Network’s Manitoba office has issued a response to the City of Winnipeg’s Our Winnipeg Report to the Community 2012. The City’s report provides an update on OurWinnipeg…
Source: Institute for Local Self-RelianceOriginal article By Stacy Mitchell Choosing a locally owned store generates almost four times as much economic benefit for the surrounding region as shopping at a…
One in six Americans now lives in poverty — the highest level in half a century. Poverty has spread beyond cities to suburbs and rural communities and is being transferred…
Accelerating Impact, a report prepared by E.T. Jackson and Associates and commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation as part of a third-party evaluation of our Impact Investing initiative, provides one of…
The Canadian Homelessness Research Network has developed a definition and typology of homelessness intended to improve understanding, measurement and responses to homelessness in Canada. According to the definition, “The…
Canada’s co-operative movement has called on the federal government to implement the recommendations of the Special Committee on Co-operatives, which tabled its report in the House of Commons on Monday….
Canadian CED Network – Ontario Summing up the Summer 2012 Newsletter Ontario CED Network News Connections 2012: Community Investment Solutions for a Better Ontario The 2012 Canadian CED…
In the summer of 2012, the Government of Alberta launched a public consultation on the creation of a new social policy framework for the province. Thrive, Calgary’s CED Network, prepared…
September 24, 20121:30pm Newfoundland, 1pm Atlantic, 12pm Eastern, 11am Central, 10am Mountain, 9am Pacific Join us to hear about how co-ops are catalyzing economic development where all else fails —…
In July 2012, Kirsten Bernas (CCEDNet’s Policy Advisor) attended a consultation, representing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – MB, hosted by the federal government regarding its new long-term infrastructure…