Category: What’s New
Today the CCPA released the 2008 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). The AFB is coordinated by the CCPA and is the result of collaborative deliberations by representatives of a wide spectrum…
Write to support the proposition advanced by Causeway calling for the Government of Canada’s creation of an Expert Advisory Panel to examine means by which new approaches to social finance…
Editorial – How the budget can fight poverty Child poverty in Canada is a national disgrace. So, too, are homelessness and the lack of jobs that pay decent wages to…
Social entrepreneurs deserve support Such enterprises have best elements of both money-making businesses and charities Paul Martin For the last 150 years, politicians and pundits the world over have…
SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Professionals Register now for upcoming courses of the SFU Community Economic Development Certificate (CED) Program for Professionals! Call 1-877-202-2268 or email . The…
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Membership Renewals Did you remember to renew your CCEDNet membership this year? CCEDNet would like to thank all of our members for their continued support. As a member…
Making Waves, Winter 2007 Contributors to this edition wrestle with the potential to use community economic development and social economy to transform, not reform, the way our communities function. The…
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The Halifax Farmers’ Market is about to take the wraps off its $2.5-million community investment program. Processing of investments ranging from $50 to $50,000 is set to begin within the…
NEWS RELEASE Community Economic Development Organizations Question Harper’s $1-Billion Community Development Trust Victoria, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The $1-billion dollar fund promised to communities under the Conservative government’s Community Development Trust…
ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 5 – 7, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Cooperative Renewal: Cooperatives in the Twenty-First Century Cooperatives and theories of cooperation have successfully adjusted to extensive social, economic,…
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, GLOBAL CO-OPERATOR AWARD, INNOVATIONS IN CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AWARD The Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) has issued a call for nominations for its annual Canadian…