Author: Matthew Thompson
Last year was a busy one for CCEDNet. Here is an overview of some of our accomplishments. 2014 Highlights • Website traffic has almost doubled in the last two years,…
Building Resilient Community Conference invites explorations of how various ‘dark horses’ in the broad North Atlantic – including minorities, small towns, peripheries, aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice…
Thrive Calgary introduces new learning community in January If more people have access to community economic development learning opportunities, more community economic development action will emerge in Calgary. That’s the…
One of the challenges of trying to keep track of community economic development (CED) in a country like Canada is that there is so much going on in disparate places…
Is your non-profit organization: exploring social enterprise as a means of enhancing the delivery of your mission or programs? launching a social enterprise to respond to community needs? growing a…
New Research Connects Investments in Low-Income Communities to Direct Gains in Employment and Income
LISC study details strategies that make poor neighborhoods more resilient A new study of dozens of poor communities across the country found that families fared better economically in places where…
I had a feeling of being privy to an historic moment as I listened in on a call this week about designing a new ecology of practices to make more…
As I ponder how we analyze a community economy, I think I am starting to understand my continual aversion to the on-going efforts to ‘map social economy’ or ‘mapping social…
The Canadian Alternative Investment Foundation (CAIF) is pleased to announce that there will be two Calls for Letter of Inquiry in 2015. (Deadlines noted below) CAIF builds on CAIC’s (Canadian…
Originally published on Momentum’s blog Engage on December 16, 2014 Momentum’s Self Employment program has offered business training to Calgarians since 1998. Because our participants face barriers such as disability,…
This blog was originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review on December 4, 2014 When most people speak of place-based efforts to alleviate poverty, their definition is the same…
Happy Holidays from CCEDNet! CED Holiday Buying & Giving Guide 2014 The holiday season is often a time when we feel we can reaffirm our values. Like Ebenezer Scrooge at…