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It’s Co-op Week in Canada. From October 14-20 co-operators across the country can celebrate the strength and diversity of the co-operative movement while raising awareness about Canada’s 9,000 co-operative organizations! The…
The Social Finance Awards are presented to leaders who are playing a pivotal role in catalyzing the Canadian social finance marketplace. The award was conceptualized to showcase and celebrate the…
10th Annual Manitoba CD/CED GatheringCommunity Economies: Enough, For All, Forever Registration closes October 17, so sign up today! October 19, 2012Churchill High School (510 Hay Street) [REGISTER HERE] Come out and…
Station 20 West, Saskatoon’s innovative community enterprise centre, is now open. Residents of Saskatoon’s core neighbourhoods face limited access to healthy food, lower health outcomes than other areas of the…
From Third Sector Online A support service to help communities take ownership of their resources was launched last week by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The Community Shares…
Start a dialogue about housing and homelessness in your community. Host a screening of the Home Safe Documentary The Home Safe documentary film is a powerful educational resource on the…
The Canadian CED Network’s Manitoba office has issued a response to the City of Winnipeg’s Our Winnipeg Report to the Community 2012. The City’s report provides an update on OurWinnipeg…
Source: Institute for Local Self-RelianceOriginal article By Stacy Mitchell Choosing a locally owned store generates almost four times as much economic benefit for the surrounding region as shopping at a…
One in six Americans now lives in poverty — the highest level in half a century. Poverty has spread beyond cities to suburbs and rural communities and is being transferred…
Accelerating Impact, a report prepared by E.T. Jackson and Associates and commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation as part of a third-party evaluation of our Impact Investing initiative, provides one of…
The Canadian Homelessness Research Network has developed a definition and typology of homelessness intended to improve understanding, measurement and responses to homelessness in Canada. According to the definition, “The…
Canada’s co-operative movement has called on the federal government to implement the recommendations of the Special Committee on Co-operatives, which tabled its report in the House of Commons on Monday….