CCEDNet provides a platform for its members to share information, collaborate, and coordinate actions to more effectively advance a pancanadian CED-related policy agenda.
The Policy Group enables interested CCEDNet members to network, share, and exchange information and ideas about policy work, mostly through an on-line team communication platform.
The Policy Council, elected from among Policy Group members, meets regularly to carry out research, consultations, and due diligence to develop and advance policies for the scaling up of CED.
Member-led
The strength of the network and our policy work is not simply in the Policy Council, but in the whole membership.
The Policy Council gets its policy agenda and mandate from CCEDNet’s membership, which represents thousands of community initiatives working with tens of thousands of community members in every part of the country. Our policy priorities have been developed over the years through dozens of consultations with thousands of individuals who are active in their communities.
This is why the Policy Council works with members in every part of Canada to advance our Network’s Policy Priorities, and to support the specific CED policy work that individual members are advancing in their own communities.
Current Policy Council Members:
Candice Zhang
Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN)
Toronto, ON
Diamond Isinger
Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC)
Vancouver, BC
John Buck
Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation (CEDEC)
Montréal, QC
Kreisha Oro
ORO CBBA
Guelph & Edmonton
Kumsa Baker
Toronto, ON
Laurie Cook
Chutzpah Consulting
Musquodoboit Harbour, NS
Len Usiskin
Quint Development Corporation
Saskatoon, SK
Lucy Cullen
Spring Activator
Toronto, ON
Rachael Howgate
Supporting Employment & Economic Development (SEED) Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB
Ryan Oneil Knight
Afro-Caribbean Business Network (ACBN)
Ajax and Brampton, ON
Policy Priorities for Community Economies
Across Canada, people are taking action to create more equitable, inclusive and sustainable community economies.
Governments can help.
CCEDNet’s Policy Priorities propose pathways to well-being for all, by impementing the federal Social Innovation and Social Finance strategy.