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Highlights Identifies/synthesises social enterprise activity on health and well-being. Presents a potential conceptual model to aid understanding of pathways to impact. Positive evidence presented upon a range of psycho-social outcomes…
Excerpt from the Introduction: In Quebec, where the social economy has achieved a great deal of visibility in recent years, there are several reasons why this is interesting for researchers….
Mainstreaming community economic development is about encouraging economic development to develop from within. About understanding and building upon an area’s existing strengths so that it can flourish by maximising the…
This briefing provides a summary of Mainstreaming Community Economic Development and how community groups can use the approach in their work. Why is Mainstreaming Community Economic Development important? This approach…
In the absence of epistemological and conceptual advances with strong ontological foundations, Dash argues, SSE cannot go very far in framing discourses and in engaging with the bigger picture, as…
This case study was requested by CEDEC—the Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation—as part of its role in helping communities throughout Quebec to identify, assess, and prepare to act on…
WealthWorks is a regional approach to economic development that connects a community’s assets to market demand in ways that build livelihoods that last. WealthWorks aims to advance a region’s overall…
This new report from Good Jobs First offers policy recommendations to reduce job poaching, sprawl, and loss of public resources induced by intra-regional competition. Through tax-base sharing and institutionalization of…
3ci Director Tessa Hebb and Research Associate Roopal Thaker have just released a detailed report on how not-for-profit organizations view their partnerships with business. Drawing on extensive interviews with not-for-profit…
Partnerships are often assumed to be a necessary, and indeed an intrinsically useful, component of CED. But partnerships can be difficult to maintain and sometimes can constrain effective CED. This…
This article explores departures in Canadian public policy toward more “place-based” approaches to social development.Focusing on the federal government, it describes a series of recent initiatives designed to enable local…
