Themes: Introduction to CED

The first installment of the Insiders’ Guides To Community Renewal, The Root of the Matter supplies a brief historical context to the separation of economic decision-making from social relations and environmental…

Why is it that some communities are going bust, while others are booming? This is a look the economic “treatments” commonly prescribed to distressed communities: corporate recruitment, government intervention, self-employment,…

The people-centred economy is a vital part of multi-sectoral strategies to improve local conditions.  When those conditions are examined through a territorial or local lens, many communities use Community Economic…

Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays critically examine bottom-up, community economic development strategies in a wide variety of contexts: as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and…

Description In Understanding the Social Economy, Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, and Ann Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission – social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit…

John Loxley has worked in community economic development as a practitioner, advisor, teacher and scholar for over 30 years. The wealth of that experience is reflected in this book, which…

Growing worldwide interest in community economic development has led to a blossoming of “how to” manuals,as well as analyses of co-operatives, development corporations, gender, financing, etc. Yet in all this…

Though it accounts for approximately 8 percent of Canada’s GDP, the social economy has only recently begun to receive wider attention in academic circles and beyond. This book is the…

This collection of thirteen case studies provides short anecdotes about 13 geographically diverse examples of Community Economic Development in Canada. Download the PDF

This reader is an early project of the B.C. – Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). Sharing key readings relevant to BALTA’s central research questions was viewed as an efficient…

The Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA) is pleased to present the CED Toolkit which was developed by ACCA for use by Alberta Community Economic Development Network Cooperative (AB CEDNet)…

The Canadian Community Economic Development Network, partnered with Pacific Community Resource Society, has worked with youth to develop local community action plans. The action plans address the human resource needs…