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This guide is written primarily for community-building practitioners from the point of view of an experienced evaluator, but it should also be useful for funders and others who would like…
It presents a model for exploring how individual make choices about the purchase of products and services, and about how much they spend on specific kinds of items.
This workbook outlines a plan for understanding what businesses exist in a community, what kinds of resources they possess, and to what extent they are, or could be, mobilized toward…
This workbook outlines the steps for collecting, organizing and using information about a neighborhood’s citizen associations. It also shows how to identify the community-building activities in which the associations are…
This workbook offers a template for discovering what kinds of skills, abilities and experiences individuals possess that could be translated into economic activity and increased economic stability for a local…
This workbook tells the story of Savannah’s experience in developing a citizen-centered city government that allowed it to work productively with local residents to improve troubled neighborhoods and build a…
This new volume brings together three articles that explore different aspects of the relationship between local communities and the newspapers that print stories about them. In “A Guide to Developing…
In the context of the economic recovery and public budget cuts, policy silos and fragmented short-term policy interventions have become luxuries that our economies can no longer afford. Government intervenes…
Accountability, value for money, results‐based management, audits and evaluation are prominent themes in state‐social economy interactions in Canada today. Community economic development organizations have been put on the defensive by…
A new report from PolicyLink examines the economic development benefits of improving healthy food access. Authors Erin Hagan and Victor Rubin argue that new grocery stores, corner stores, farmer’s markets,…
Models and Best Practices The research presented in this document emerged as part of the momentum described above. It was designed to build on the findings of earlier reports, and…
Non-profits have played a vital role in building communities in Canada and continue to make important contributions to developing public infrastructure. Canada has a large non-profit and voluntary sector, and…
