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Sharing Environmental Justice and Community Economic Development Strategies The link between Environmental Justice and Community Economic Development is widely recognized. The two are highly interconnected and raise issues common to…
The Government of Alberta has resolved to invest in job creation, economic diversification, renewable energy, small businesses and support for Alberta families. The innovative tools of community economic development (CED)…
The Basis for a Community Development Process Society has clearly come to a crossroads, especially so in developed countries. It is rapidly becoming evident that all growth has its limits….
The guiding CED principles of Neechi Foods Worker Co-op, Winnipeg MB. These principles are what the Manitoba Provincial Government used in its CED Framework: Use of locally produced goods and…
Working in Communities on the Margins For over 20 years I have pursued community, economic and sustainable development in peripheral regional communities in Atlantic Canada, North Eastern Scotland and most…
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…
So much of human history is about communities that mainstream society has forgotten or pushed aside. Groups of people bound together by common location, experience, or values find their way…
Introduction: the nature of ‘community’ (excerpt) The term ‘community capacity-building’ only entered into the lexicon of policy-making a very few years ago. Like all terms associated with the much-abused term ‘community’…
Since the early 1980s, the community economic development corporations (CDECs) created by community groups involved in health, housing, welfare and other issues – have become major non-profit associations. CDECs offer support for…
Community economic development organizations (CDEC-Corporations de developpement économique communautaire) have been active in working class and low-income neighborhoods in Montreal since mid 1980s. They have created structures based on partnerships…
This programme provides support to local economic actors, and is involved in workshops, enhancing competitiveness, and productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises. After the economic crisis in Canada of 1982-83,…
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…
