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While the impact investing field has taken off in recent years and has influenced mainstream banking priorities, worker cooperatives are not yet a viable option for a typical impact investor…
The rapid growth in Canada’s responsible investment market, now at $1 trillion (68% increase in 2 years), is a testament that investors wish to know their money is contributing to…
This paper explores how five competing theories of poverty shape anti-poverty strategies. Since most rural community development efforts aim to relieve causes or symptoms of poverty, it makes a difference which…
This handbook is for you if you are worried about your local economy. The chances are, it’s not thriving and you are beginning to wonder if the usual approaches to…
The Community Energy Implementation Framework is a guide intended to help communities move CEPs from a vision to implementation. The Community Energy Implementation Framework should be used with the Community…
The Parkdale Community Economic Development (PCED) Planning Project is an 18-month neighbourhoodwide planning initiative for Parkdale. Supported by the Atkinson Foundation, the PCED project is led by Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre…
Economic changes and austerity policies are causing increased inequality, polarization, and segregation within and between neighbourhoods. Residents must juggle multiple responsibilities under intensifying pressures and with access to fewer resources…
This research finds that successful social value procurement (SVP) evaluation frameworks share the following characteristics: a clear articulation of the end-goal, a transparent and consistent process for gathering baseline data…
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…
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….
