Category: Policy Development & Advocacy

Last year, on International Youth Day (August 12), the United Nations asserted that climate change demands intergenerational solidarity: “Youth [are] on the frontline when it comes to facing the impacts…

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance invited Canadians to participate in its annual pre-budget consultations process, by August 4, 2023. The Committee intends to table a report on…

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), a financial Crown corporation wholly-owned by the Government of Canada, is Canada’s only bank exclusively focused on providing support to Small and Medium-sized…

Note: this piece originally appeared on the Ontario Nonprofit Network’s website. You can read the original piece here. Community wealth building (CWB) means doing local economic development in a way…

For the Canadian CED Network, 2022 was a year to build power and momentum. We worked with all levels of government to unlock vital resources for CED approaches to thrive….

Congratulations to Yvon Poirier, CCEDNet Board member and longtime CED activist, who has been instrumental in supporting this work at the UN, including most recently last December. Yvon’s work led…

Learn more about the City of Winnipeg’s 2023 budget, and celebrate a CED policy win!

Last Wednesday was the inaugural meeting of the Social Innovation Advisory Council (SIAC). The creation of the Council was one of the 12 recommendations in the Social Innovation and Social…

Recommendations for more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous communities in Manitoba were shared with the Government of Manitoba recently through CCEDNet Manitoba on behalf of the Network’s over 80 member organizations…

On September 29th, the We Want to Work coalition sent two questions to all candidates for mayor and council in the City of Winnipeg ahead of October 26th’s municipal election:…

CCEDNet’s 2023 Pre-Budget Brief outlines our priorities and proposals for the next federal budget, namely the full implementation of the Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy. In June 2022, the…

This Thursday, July 21, the We Want to Work coalition including CCEDNet members and social enterprises in Winnipeg are celebrating long-awaited public policy success! After many months of deliberation, conversation,…