Category: What’s New
On a bright and warm day in Winnipeg, the Canadian CED Network gathered for our annual general meeting. Held at the St. Matthew’s Community Center, over thirty-five people attended,…
Victoria, June 3, 2013 – The Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria’s Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project has just released a report highlighting research and lessons learned from Phase One…
School may be out for summer, but it’s never too early to start thinking about picking up the books again in September. If you’re shopping around for post-secondary programs…
2012 Annual Report Past annual reports are available here.
The Ontario government is launching the country’s first microloan fund to help social enterprises — businesses that have a positive social, cultural, or environmental impact while generating revenue — create…
On 6-8 May, UNRISD held a major international conference on Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy, co-hosted with the ILO and in partnership with UN–NGLS, Hivos, the Rosa…
What are the benefits of community economic development and how can it become more mainstream? Localise West Midlands (UK) has been researching how localised and community economic development can be…
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, announced in April that the Government of Canada has completed the transfer of responsibility for co-operatives to Industry Canada from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,…
Is there enough for all? The Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI) believes that there is. In a prosperous and growing city like Calgary, this report asserts that together, Calgarians have…
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has released its report Harnessing the Power of Social Finance in response to the national call for concepts it undertook in late 2012. This…
The Centre de la francophonie des Amériques organized a meeting in Cap Haitien, from April 30 to May 2. Ethel Côté and Yvon Poirier represented CCEDNet, and Éric Lefebvre was…
Newly launched GROUNDSWELL is an eight-month-long Vancouver-based training institute designed to assist people under the age of 35 in developing the hard and soft skills to build their own sustainable…