Category: What’s New
For Alex Wood, Senior Director, Policy and Markets at Sustainable Prosperity, the concept of new economies is directly aligned with that of green economies. Currently, Alex is working on the…
Key elements of new economies include: Resourcefulness: Utilising unused resources, seeing opportunity in what was traditionally considered waste; Disruption: breaking down the old and creating better brighter solutions; Increased citizen…
It’s important to be clear about the language we’re using. Certainly there are new economic arrangements being formed in various places and at various scales, and those innovations are important…
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…