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In recent years, the neighbourhood has gained increasing attention as a venue and vehicle for social change. Interest in neighbourhood, or place-based, development has escalated in concert with the body…
Calgarians enjoy one of the highest standards of living and lowest percentage of people living in poverty in Canada. In Calgary in 2011, 6.6 per cent of the population lived…
The economic challenges of the 21st century are daunting. Rapid urbanization resulting from large-scale displacements of populations, with attendant crises of mass poverty and unemployment, threaten to persist well into…
There have been many approaches to Indigenous economic development. Most often imposed, such approaches have often been assimilationist in nature, by arguing that cultural values and knowledge actually place Indigenous…
This report provides key evidence supporting the potential growth of Vancouver’s sharing economy, and valuable information for entrepreneurs and grassroots organizers who are looking to develop new platforms for sharing….
This guide provides a catalog of efforts made by local government institutions to support cooperative development in their regions. It is an ongoing compilation of information by the Philadelphia Area…
The Government of Manitoba’s strategy to enable individuals with barriers to employment access to meaningful work through social enterprise is part of a larger provincial job creation strategy launched in…
Drawing on years of working with social entrepreneurs, conversations from across the globe, and lessons from case studies of its Social EnterPrize recipients, a new report from the Trico Foundation,…
This workbook is for you if you are concerned about your local economy and want to prove how effectively different parts of your economy are working. Perhaps your community is…
Co-operatives in Canada in 2012 is an annual publication that provides national baseline data on the co-operatives sector. The Government of Canada has been collecting and publishing this data since the 1930s. Co-operatives…
This report examines financing for the social enterprise sector in Winnipeg and Manitoba. The report utilizes a literature review, which covers the last ten years of peer-reviewed articles (2015-2016) as…
This second edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines how national and local actors can better work together to support economic development and job creation at the local…
