Posted: November 27, 2020
With the financial support of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC), the Community Data Program (CDP) of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) has launched a Solutions Lab project called “Developing easy-to-use community decision-making tools to help achieve National Housing Strate
Posted: August 12, 2020
The Common Approach to Impact Measurement is looking for 12 people to sit on its inaugural Governance Group.
Women in Canada have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to an extent that threatens to roll back equality gains. Economic losses have fallen heavily on women and most dramatically on women living on low incomes who experience intersecting inequalities based on race, class, disability, education, and migration and immigration status.
With discussions of race, reconciliation, and revolution on the forefront, there has been no better time to demand the restructuring of the economic practices that have led to the income equality and social exclusion of the current market.
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our world. It has laid bare the inequity, the limits, and the failures of capitalism. The door to a better future beyond capitalism, already cracked open by the Great Recession, has been pushed open a little wider.
With funding for federal, state, and local loan and grant programs maxing out, it is more important than ever that we utilize a multitude of creative strategies to harness the financial capital of our communities towards self determined outcomes.
