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.
The massive challenges that we experienced in 2021 – from the worsening pandemic and climate crisis to the uncoverings of mass graves at residential schools – all have their roots…
CCEDNet’s 2023 Pre-Budget Brief outlines our priorities and proposals for the next federal budget, namely the full implementation of the Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy. In June 2022, the…
On September 29th, the We Want to Work coalition sent two questions to all candidates for mayor and council in the City of Winnipeg ahead of October 26th’s municipal election:…
Recommendations for more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous communities in Manitoba were shared with the Government of Manitoba recently through CCEDNet Manitoba on behalf of the Network’s over 80 member organizations…
Last Wednesday was the inaugural meeting of the Social Innovation Advisory Council (SIAC). The creation of the Council was one of the 12 recommendations in the Social Innovation and Social…
