Canadian CED Network

On September 15, Canada’s National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce launched their report, Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good: Priorities for Canada

Key recommendations put forward in the report include:

  • Enabling impact investment and social entrepreneurship in the charitable and non-profit sector, in particular by updating the Income Tax Act and related guidance, which have not kept pace with these trends.
  • Establishing an impact investing matching program, paired with appropriate incentives such as credit enhancements, guarantees and tax advantages, which have been used to good effect to attract investment to other markets in support of public policy priorities.
  • Establishing an outcomes payment fund, specifying maximum prices that the government will pay for certain outcomes, allowing the market to respond with innovative solutions. Social service providers, in turn, can gain access to impact investment capital based on the government’s commitment to pay when outcomes are achieved.

The Social Impact Investment Taskforce was established following an announcement by UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the June 2013 G8 Social Impact Investment Forum in London. The Taskforce aims to catalyze the development of the social impact investment market.

The Social Impact Investment Taskforce was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at the June 2013 G8 Social Impact Investment Forum in London. Chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen, the Taskforce aims to catalyze the development of the social impact investment market. – See more at: http://socialfinance.ca/2014/08/21/launch-event-report-canadas-national-…

The launch event for the report, hosted by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (MCII) in Toronto, provided the opportunity for those interested in finance, business or philanthropy to learn about key insights that have emerged from the Social Impact Investment Taskforce and from Canada’s National Advisory Board. The event drew on an international effort that was undertaken last spring to explore the potential for impact investing to address some of society’s most pressing challenges. Attendees will also enjoy opportunities to network with others engaged in the impact investment, social entrepreneurship and non-profit/charitable sectors.

Canada is represented on the Social Impact Investment Taskforce by Tim Jackson, Director of MCII, and Siobhan Harty, Director General of Social Policy, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

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love.joatu.com Grass to Gardens Initiative

Urban agriculture is a movement that is growing in urban Montreal.  Every year there are more and more public spaces that have vegetables and herbs growing in them ready for neighborhood consumption and cultivation.  The greater vegetable yields we can produce locally, the more we will save on transportation and distribution costs.  Families will be able to save a few dollars. Communities will be able to educate themselves first-hand on the cycle of vegetable life and people will become increasingly inspired with the concept of being self-sustainable.

Now enter JoatU.

JoatU (which stands for the Jack of all trades Universe) is an altruistic online classifieds that builds and strengthens community through bartering, trading and giving of skills, materials and time to others in your neighborhood.  JoatU also encourages individual participation in community projects by offering tradable “community points” as acknowledgement for their help!

Watch this short walkthrough for a greater understanding.

Now that you see how JoatU can help you and your community, let us explain how we at JoatU can directly help our communities today with an urban agriculture initiative!  We want to reach out to our community by planting vegetable gardens in our neighbours yards and split the produce with everyone who helps!

Food brings people together, we know this. So let’s plant the seeds (literally) to bring people together!

Here’s how you can help:

  • Offer a portion of your sun-rich lawn in the Plateau Mont-Royal region in Montreal to plant a vegetable garden box.
  • Make a small contribution (We only need 30 more people donating $20 each to reach our goal!)
  • Spread the word on social media, in real life, or however else you can imagine!
  • Lend us your tools when we need them, a space to work, a van to borrow, or by donating some of the necessary gardening products (e.g. soil, seeds, seedlings, etc).
  • Help us build the garden boxes in Spring 2015.

We’re counting on you!  This campaign is running until September 22nd!  Have any questions? Contact us.

Here is a list of tools that we will need:

  • Space to work
  • Soil
  • Compost
  • Wood (12ft 2×8 or scrap)
  • Table Saw
  • Drills
  • Truck (for delivery)
  • Shovels
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Seedlings
  • Seeds
  • Chicken Wire
  • Irrigation Tubing
  • Timers
  • Perlite
  • Level
  • PVC Piping
  • Mesh
  • Soil Rake

Want to learn even more about JoatU? Enjoy this interview I just did with Valhalla!

Jamie Klinger is the founder and CEO of JoatU (Jack of all trades Universe). He is also a professional photographer with his own company, Honestly Marketing.

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Give your non-profit organization some exercise:
We exercise to strengthen our bodies. We go to school to strengthen our minds. But what can non-profits do to strengthen their organization and maximize their impact? Answer: Attend a Strengthening Non-Profits Workshop.
 
Workshops:
Marketing Basics for Non-Profits | Oct. 9
United Way Learning Centre, 580 Main St. | 9am – 4pm
Facilitators: Wendy Miller and Pam Hadder from SWJ Marketing and Advertising
Making sure community members, partners, and stakeholders know who you are and what you do is crucial for community organizations. This session will provide an overview of the basics of marketing and how these principles can be applied to community groups. In the afternoon, get practical with developing a marketing plan.

 

Fund Development for Non-Profits | Nov. 13
United Way Learning Centre, 580 Main St. | 9am – 4pm
Facilitators: Sara Penner
The important work of community organizations could not happen without finding ways to fully resource that work. Learn about core fundraising strategies and tools at this session. Work through the beginnings of a fund development plan and walk away with a sense of your organization’s gaps and opportunities.

 

Watch for more CCEDNet Manitoba learning events at
www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/mblearningevents!
More Information:
These Strengthening Non-Profits workshops are brought to you through a partnership between Volunteer Manitoba and CCEDNet, and are generously supported by the United Way of Winnipeg
   

 
 

ABOUT THE CANADIAN CED NETWORK

CCEDNet is a national member-led organization committed to strengthening Canadian communities by creating better economic opportunities and enhancing environmental and social conditions.

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The People’s Climate March, coming up this weekend in New York City and in parallel demonstrations around the world, is shaping up to be the largest demonstration on the climate in North American history.  It is designed to send a message to global leaders attending a special UN climate summit.

So what does that have to do with community economic development or the social economy?

Well, the answer is: lots. 

It’s not just that the changing climate is likely the biggest threat our species has ever faced.  Anyone who reads or listens to news hears that on a semi-regular basis (more links below if you’re interested).  And although the worst is yet to come, the effects are already being felt. 

That alone is enough to make it relevant for people working to strengthen communities. 

But there’s more to it than that. 

As Naomi Klein points out in her new book This Changes Everything, the motor that is driving climate change is our current dominant economic model, which she describes as being ‘at war with life on earth.’  CED practitioners saw the impacts of the dominant economy on people in urban neighbourhoods and rural communities decades ago – that is what helped spur the invention of community economic development. 

Now, a half-century later, we see more clearly that people aren’t the only casualties of our economic system: the entire planet is. 

The trailer for This Changes Everything sums it up nicely:  “We can’t change the laws of nature.  But we can change our broken economy.  And that’s why climate change isn’t just a disaster.  It’s also our best chance to demand – and build – a better world.” 

That’s where community economic development and the social and solidarity economy has a major role to play. 

Founding CCEDNet member Mike Lewis made the same connection in his recent book The Resilience Imperative.  He and co-author Pat Conaty of the New Economics Foundation show how democratic, community-based economic alternatives offer many creative paths toward flourishing communities that live within the ecological limits of the planet.

The New Economy Coalition (NEC), which CCEDNet joined last year, recognizes that our ecological and economic crises are interconnected, and brings together a stellar array of groups to advance shared values and objectives.  The People’s Climate March has been a priority for NEC, and the ever-growing list of more than 1,000 partners supporting the march and demanding action on climate change is very inspiring. 

Solutions exist.  We have to do more to make them better known.  Projects like Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for the Future will help.  And marching, riding a unicycle, signing a petition or doing whatever you can (this weekend and every day afterwards) to shift our economy and bend the course of history will help too. 

The world we want is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good livelihoods, clean air and water, and healthy communities.

Let’s demand it. 

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Michael Toye is the Executive Director of the Canadian CED Network, having worked in various other capacities with CCEDNet since 2000. Michael has also taught courses on CED and social enterprise at Concordia University and has written a number of articles and other publications on CED and the social economy, including co-editing the book, Community Economic Development: Building for Social Change.

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Newcomers and immigrant serving organizations in Saskatchewan have reason to celebrate with the recent announcement from the Government of Saskatchewan that they will be renewing the Immigrant Access Fund of Saskatchewan (IAF SK).

IAK SK is a non-profit organization that provides recent immigrants with character-based repayable microloans of up to $10,000. The proposed agreement signed between the provincial government and IAF SK will provide $204,131 in operational funding to enable 58 microloans. The microloans can be used for activities related to training, upgrading, licensing, certification, registration and/or memberships required for employment in their occupation in Saskatchewan.

AIF SK was involved in the Government of Canada’s Foreign Credential Recogntion Loans Pilot Project in 2011 along with CCEDNet members SEED Winnipeg and l’Association Communautaire d’emprunt de Montréal.  The Pilot project was initiated in part based on the demonstrated success of Alberta’s Immigrant Access Microloan Program

  • For more information on this announcement, see the Government of Saskatchewan’s press release.
  • Here are more resources on CED initiatives to support Immigrant and Newcomer socioeconomic inclusion, from our toolbox
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Upcoming municipal elections provide an opportunity to get priorities of the Canadian CED Network – Manitoba (CCEDNet-MB) on the public policy agenda. Members of CCEDNet-MB have prioritized the following three policy ideas: procurement, housing, and poverty reduction.

Members asked us to send letters to candidates in Winnipeg, Brandon, and Roblin to see if candidates are in favour of these policy areas. We will be sharing their responses.

Actions you can take:

  1. Send your own letter to candidates stating your support for these policy ideas and encouraging candidates to respond to our questions. Please send a copy to kbernas at ccednet-rcdec.ca.

    Letter templates:   Organizational Member   |   Individual Member

    Contact information for candidates:   Winnipeg, Brandon (or call 204.729.2210)

  2. Attend candidate forums and ask questions from our letters to candidates. We are aware of the following upcoming forums. Please email kbernas at ccednet-rcdec.ca if you know of others.
  1. Share our recent op-ed, City Hall Can Help Jobless, published in the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press, September 8, 2014. CCEDNet-MB members prioritized the policy areas discussed below, which are based on the following CCEDNet-MB policy resolutions: procurement, housing, and poverty reduction.

While election cycles bring some community challenges to the spotlight, the work creating solutions to these complex challenges is ongoing. Winnipeg’s inner-city neighbourhoods have been quietly transforming — creating employment, reducing poverty, reversing neighbourhood decline and preventing crime.

The Merchants Corner will offer education and housing where a notorious hotel once stood; the Social Enterprise Centre is providing training and jobs to communities while improving housing stock; Neechi Commons is bringing fresh food where no other grocery store stands, along with stable and local jobs.

Community organizations have been the driver of these success stories, but they thrive with supportive governments that move the policy levers and resources at their disposal.

The Province of Manitoba has taken significant steps to work with our communities. The City of Winnipeg has not.

When Winnipeg votes in municipal elections on Oct. 22, community leaders will be hoping for a change in approach at city hall that will see their efforts supported by an effective partnership with our municipal government, one that supports the effective work already being done.

Far too many Winnipeggers want to work, but don’t have the skills or opportunity to access jobs. Leaders in the community have responded by creating profitable businesses that address this challenge, called social enterprises.

Social enterprises are non-profit businesses with a social mandate, and Winnipeg has successful social enterprises providing training, support and jobs for people shut out of the workforce, whether due to a criminal record, a physical or intellectual disability, or having no high school diploma. Social enterprises have moved hundreds of Winnipeggers who would otherwise be unemployed into jobs, providing opportunities to support their families and contribute to their communities.

Smart government policy can help these businesses grow to ensure anyone who wants to work has the opportunity.

If the City of Winnipeg would value the economic and social impact of its purchases, it would receive a better bang for its buck.

For instance, when the city hires renovators, it can contract social enterprises at the market rate who will provide training and jobs to at-risk individuals, thereby reducing costs to policing while breaking the vicious cycle of poverty. Purchasing from social enterprises provides the City of Winnipeg with a unique, long-term return on investment — savings through crime prevention, increases in tax revenue and healthy communities.

The Province of Manitoba, along with jurisdictions around the world — municipal, provincial and federal — have shown this approach to buying goods and services is achievable, and the resulting growth in social enterprises has demonstrated it works.

But a stronger social-enterprise sector providing jobs and training is not a silver bullet. Training and employment can be a pathway out of poverty, but we know success depends on a safe, affordable place to live.

Affordable housing is scarce in most major Canadian cities. Calgary has committed to supporting the development of 8,500 affordable housing units by 2018. Saskatoon has targeted 5,000 units over the next 10 years.

Winnipeg’s new housing plan commits to developing 75 affordable rental units over five years — 15 units per year. It has the resources to support the development of much more than this.

Community groups are calling on the City of Winnipeg to support the development of at least 350 new units of both social and affordable housing in Winnipeg over three years. The province has committed to developing 500 units of both social and affordable housing across Manitoba in the next three years. Groups such as Right to Housing have identified several ways the city can support these efforts without any budgetary changes, including planning and land use, land donations, inclusive zoning and tax-increment financing.

The City of Winnipeg can be a powerful player in ensuring its communities and economic opportunities are inclusive to our vulnerable neighbours. Beyond housing and employment, action can be taken to ensure all have access to transportation, food security, recreation and social supports.

Cities across Canada have created comprehensive plans guiding the actions they are taking to reduce poverty. Winnipeg has no comprehensive strategy, and community organizations have seen their good work slow due to funding cuts in recent budgets.

In 2009, the Province of Manitoba launched a poverty-reduction strategy. Community leaders have been asking the City of Winnipeg to take action and commit to a poverty-reduction strategy that partners with provincial efforts.

Communities know what they need to thrive. Citizens are finding innovative and effective ways to support their communities, and they will continue to make progress toward poverty reduction, safer neighbourhoods, better health and stronger local economies no matter who is elected. Together, we can do more and we can do it better. It’s time for the city to join us.

Kirsten Bernas is Research and Policy Manager with CCEDNet in Manitoba.  She received a BA (Honours) in Economics from the University of Manitoba as well as an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Kirsten represents CCEDNet on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives‘ Alternative Federal Budget Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Canada’s Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Manitoba‘s Executive Committee, and on the Winnipeg Food Policy Working Group

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Darcy Penner is a Research & Policy Advisor with the Canadian CED Network. He has been working in community development through various capacities since graduating from the University of Winnipeg with a BA (Honours) in Politics.

Darcy was also a contributing author to the Alternative Municipal Budget for CCEDNet-Manitoba.

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Originally published on the Strategy at Work blog

The Manitoba government has made some significant progress around poverty reduction over the last decade or so. Depending on the poverty measure used, between 6,000 and 27,000 Manitobans were lifted out of poverty between 2002 and 2011. Despite this progress, approximately 105,000 Manitobans continue to live with low incomes. Poverty rates in Manitoba are consistently higher than the national average and the child poverty rate is, at best, third highest in the country.

The New Democratic Party has governed Manitoba since 1999, with many people in key positions who have worked in the community sector. They have led alongside a strong and active sector of community-based organizations that are committed to poverty reduction and community development. This sector’s strong and persistent collective voice has been met with a receptive political climate and resulted in the introduction of some very important public policy initiatives to address poverty.

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After many years of calling on the government to introduce its own strategy and legislation, community advocates released The View From Here: Manitobans call for a poverty reduction plan. The 2009 report was based on several years of consultations and outlined the essential components of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy. In the same year, the Manitoba government released All Aboard: Manitoba’s Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion Strategy. Advocates were pleased to see the government take action but saw its quiet release as a missed opportunity to collaborate with the community and build on the work it had already done.  A major concern was the lack of meaningful consultation which resulted in a strategy that fell short of expectations.

In 2011, the Manitoba government responded to ongoing calls for legislation by passing The Poverty Reduction Strategy Act. The act requires the government to implement a five-year poverty reduction and social inclusion strategy, to take the strategy into account when preparing the annual budget, to establish indicators to measure progress of the strategy, and to report annually to the public on progress. The legislation was an important step toward holding present and future governments accountable to ensuring poverty is reduced in Manitoba.

The Manitoba government has long been criticized for not establishing a strong goal or targets and timelines tied to poverty reduction indicators. All Aboard initially identified a goal to ‘continuously reduce poverty and increase social inclusion,’ and proposed 15 indicators that the government could track to measure progress. However, these indicators were not reported on in the first three years of the strategy. A revised All Aboard was released in 2012 in response to The Poverty Reduction Strategy Act. It introduced a new suite of 21 indicators, which were based on consultations with the community, and set out a new goal to ‘make progress on (the) set of indicators in each year of (the) strategy.’

A commitment to tracking and reporting on the progress of indicators has made it possible to observe trends (see the first All Aboard Annual Report). However, as noted in The View From Here, if indicators are not attached to targets and timelines, there is no real basis from which to measure progress. If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know how close you are to reaching your destination? Furthermore, without targets and timelines, there is no framework for strategic thinking and action. If the government doesn’t know where it’s going, how will it determine the best way to get there?

More recently the Manitoba government has responded to community pressure for targets and timelines around some specific outputs. For example, it committed to creating 3,000 units of social housing between 2009 and 2014. It also committed to increasing the Rent Assist benefit to 75% of median market rent between 2014 and 2018. Community advocates have diligently monitored progress toward these targets. Arguably, the government is in a better position to directly influence the achievement of targets attached to outputs, such as housing units or shelter benefits, than targets attached to outcomes, such as poverty rates or graduation rates, which may explain its willingness to make these commitments.

The absence of outcome focused targets and timelines has resulted in a strategy that is not strongly forward focused. Instead, both All Aboard strategies listed mostly ongoing actions that the government had already announced. In 2012, All Aboard committed to creating action plans around seven priority areas for implementation by 2016. We are almost three years into this commitment and only three of the seven action plans have been quietly released. They have been criticized for consisting primarily of existing commitments and only vaguely identifying new initiatives for future implementation. The approach suggests that the Manitoba government is using the action plans as a vehicle for pulling together all the poverty reduction initiatives that are already underway in a particular area – food security, housing, youth – rather than using them as an opportunity to lay out a vision and strategic road map of actions that will be taken over several years to achieve that vision.

Despite the noted challenges, there has been good progress toward reducing poverty in Manitoba. The government has implemented several important actions, many of which were identified in The View From Here. Significant resources have been committed toward housing, income supports, childcare, employment development, and numerous community-led poverty reduction initiatives. Many of these successes have been achieved, in part, through the strong, persistent, and consistent voice of community advocates. Given that the policy landscape has changed in Manitoba since 2009, community members are now working to renew The View From Here. They hope the government will incorporate its ideas as it prepares to launch the next update of All Aboard, scheduled for release in 2017.

Kirsten Bernas is Research and Policy Manager with CCEDNet in Manitoba.  She received a BA (Honours) in Economics from the University of Manitoba as well as an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Kirsten represents CCEDNet on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives‘ Alternative Federal Budget Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Canada’s Steering Committee, Make Poverty History Manitoba‘s Executive Committee, and on the Winnipeg Food Policy Working Group

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Brandon University has been awarded a 7-year, $2.5 M SSHRC Partnership grant to support rural policy and its implementation. This project, led by CCEDNet member the Rural Development Institute, will bring an international view to policy discussions and research from other development countries to inform rural policy across Canada, support new and established researchers, and contribute insights for new theory.

The project aims to enhance Canadian prosperity by

  • identifying and analyzing policy options relevant to rural and northern places
  • evaluating these options in the context of national and international policy innovations, and
  • building leadership capacity among rural and northern researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners.

For more information on this new initiative visit http://rplc-capr.ca.

 

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NANCY NEAMTAN TO BE KEYNOTE AT THE MANITOBA CD/CED GATHERING!
October 24, 2014
  
 

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Canadian CED Network is excited to announce that Nancy Neamtan will be the keynote speaker at the 12th Annual Gathering, Manitoba’s CD/CED Conference, to be held on October 24th, 2014.

Ms Neamtan is President and Executive Director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale, a non-profit organization representing networks of social enterprises (cooperatives and non-profits), local development organizations and social movements. The mission of the Chantier is the promotion and development of collective entrepreneurship.

Ms Neamtan was the founder (1997) and President of RISQ (Réseau d’investissement social du Québec), a $15 million investment fund dedicated to the non-profit and cooperative sector in Québec. Since November 2006, she has been President of the Fiducie du Chantier de l’économie sociale, a  $53 million investment fund for collective enterprises.

Ms Neamtan is recognized internationally as an expert on the social and solidarity economy, working in collaboration with international organizations such as the International Labour Organization and the OECD’s Forum on Social Innovation. She is a member of the Board of Directions of RIPESS, the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social and Solidarity Economy.

In 2012, Ms Neamtan was appointed Officer of the Ordre National du Québec.

Check out our Manitoba CD/CED Gathering page for updates and information on previous Gatherings.

For more information, please contact Michael Deakin by emailing

Registration opens September 24 – watch your inbox for an email reminder!

  

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The UN General Assembly has tentatively set September 21-23, 2015, for the adoption of the post-2015 Goals. This far-reaching process will establish overarching development priorities to guide UN agencies and member states for many years to come.   

This past July, the Open Working Group (OWG) met at UN headquarters for a last session and adopted on July 19 the document Proposal of The Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals. One of the main activities for the next year will be negotiations to come up with a resolution for adoption. Many events will be held during the coming year such as the Climate Summit convened by the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon September 23, 2014.

RIPESS, the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy, of which CCEDNet is a member, published recommendations for the post-2015 SDG’s in July. The SSE Recommendations were distributed and presented at the UN, during the meeting of the OWG mentioned above. More information is available in a previous CCEDNet news post.

The UN Taskforce on SSE published a Position paper in July. The CCEDNet website also recently announced this paper.

On behalf of RIPESS, Daniel Tygel, published an opinion piece on the UN NGLS (Non-Governmental Liaison Service) website. 

There is a focus amongst concerned organisations for work at the country level since the UN General Assembly is made up of country delegations. In Canada, the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) acts as the lead agency for the worldwide civil society Beyond 2015 campaign. CCEDNet has joined the campaign recently. Over 1,000 organisations worldwide are members.

Recently, Beyond 2015 has published an analysis of the OWG document mentioned above. Beyond2015 Reaction to the Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

The weaknesses within some of the 18 proposed goals are important. Beyond 2015 is proposing amendments to improve the document. This will be extremely tough work since some countries are quite adamant not to set goals that will bring significant changes to the current global neoliberal economy. Reading the Beyond 2015 paper is necessary for people who want to understand the key debates for the next year. 

In Canada, CCIC is supporting different activities and meetings, including exchanges with the Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (DFATD) since SDGs for the Post-2015 period are under their responsibility. 

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Yvon Poirier is Chair of CCEDNet’s International Committee and Secretary of the Board. He has a long history of involvement in the labour and social movements in Québec and Canada and has been very active in the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS). He represents the CDÉC de Québec in CCEDNet.

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The Status of Women Canada has launched a Call for Proposals entitled Increasing Economic Prosperity for Women for projects to increase economic opportunities for women.

Projects selected through this new Call for Proposals will engage women and key stakeholders in addressing the challenges facing women in today’s economy, and removing the barriers that prevent them from contributing fully to the growth of the economy in their communities.

Elements to be developed by applicants:

  • Identify and choose the specific issue to be addressed by the proposed project (for example, responding to the needs of women business owners or addressing barriers related to the retention of women in the sciences and skilled trades);
  • Develop the approach and activities to be undertaken as part of the proposed project; and
  • Determine the results you plan to achieve.

Some pertinent details of the Call for Proposals include:

  • Organizations can be funded up to $300,000 for a 24-month project at the local or regional level, and up to $500,000 for a 36-month project at the national level.
  • Eligible recipients include non-profit and for-profit organizations.
  • The Call for Proposals will remain open until October 17, 2014.

Additional information on the Call for Proposals and the application is available on Status of Women Canada’s website at:

Increasing Economic Prosperity for Women

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