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This report reviews the economic inclusion achievements and challenges of the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, a major community development project. It examines the use of local residents in construction jobs…
The research on social enterprise (SE) access to Federal, Provincial, and Territorial funded (F/P/T) small and medium enterprise (SME) services was completed in response to a request by Human Resources and…
This book is a response to the explosive interest in and availability of data, especially for improving America’s communities. It is designed to be useful to practitioners, policymakers, funders, and the data…
Greater Ohio Policy Center released an independent analysis of an innovative model for neighborhood recovery being piloted in a Cleveland neighborhood, finding promising results for this block-by-block holistic approach to…
Social procurement is a process that targets social impact as a desired or required quality in goods or services to be purchased. It is commonly practiced by individuals, businesses and…
In the 2000s, community advocates spent several years calling for a comprehensive provincial poverty reduction plan that shows Manitobans how far we have come and where the province plans to…
This paper focusses on improving support into the job market for people with health conditions and disabilities and those facing long-term unemployment, who face considerable disadvantages. Growth in the economy…
How can we scale up the cooperative movement without losing our cooperative values? That is the question contributors seek to answer in this collection of essays. In the years since…
A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014 For people who participate in commons, peer production, or co-operatives, the emerging economy presents a frustrating paradox…
While the social economy originated in Europe, by the nineteenth century it emerged in North America as well, particularly in Canada and Quebec with its ties to the United Kingdom and France…
The Social Economy in Quebec presents lessons and challenges for internationalizing co-operation. This paper provides an overview of the contemporary social economy in Quebec, its many achievements and results in…
This article discusses how The California Endowment has used a midcourse strategic review to refine Building Healthy Communities, aiming to provide insight for other place-based initiatives and to add to…
