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REScoops rely on groups of citizens who join together and cooperate at a local level in the field of renewable energy. Relying on bottom-up and collective dynamics, REScoops face the…
Do investments in poor neighborhoods really make a difference? In a new study by LISC, the answer is yes. The report shows that in neighborhoods where LISC invested heavily, jobs…
For every government dollar invested in Momentum’s Self Employment Program over $7 is returned to the community, reveals a new economic evaluation. Momentum’s Self Employment Program has been offering business…
The Community Futures Program (CFP) supports rural economic development across Canada through four key activities: working with local partners to advance strategic community planning and socio-economic development; providing business services to small and…
Introduction: the nature of ‘community’ (excerpt) The term ‘community capacity-building’ only entered into the lexicon of policy-making a very few years ago. Like all terms associated with the much-abused term ‘community’…
ACOA’s Community-Based Business Development (CBBD) sub-program focuses on activities to improve access to capital and other supports needed to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in rural communities across Atlantic…
Introduction Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have met with varying degrees of success in both Canada and the United States since their introduction as an affordable housing alternative. The goal of this External Research…
Offering a loan to help a non-profit day care in a low-income community expand its services; helping members make socially responsible investments; providing preferential rates for the purchase of fuel efficient cars;…
This information sheet is part of the Tailor-Made series, which aims to share evidence about the difference the community sector makes to our lives. Specifically, this information sheet looks at the role…
Combined European Bureau for Social Development was founded in Swansea 1990. The aim was to facilitate joint projects and applications in the European context and to organize more systematic exchanges between national community…
Across the world, attitudes are changing. Old certainties about tightly defined roles for government, civil society and business are dissolving. Charities and non-profits are becoming more business-like, and business is looking…
Creating more and better quality jobs is key to boosting growth, reducing poverty and increasing social cohesion. At the national level, job creation requires a stable macroeconomic framework coupled with…