Themes: Policy Development & Advocacy

Green Meeting Guide 2009 Organised events that bring many people together can often be a valuable opportunity for awareness-raising, learning and creating a new culture of caring for natural, social…

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

The Pan-Canadian Community Development Learning Network is a two and a half year project of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) that seeks to promote learning about and examine…

Over the five years of the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships, public policy emerged as a key theme. This e-book brings together the National Hub’s public policy and knowledge mobilization…

This research project is part of a larger body of research being completed under the title of Creating Policy to Support Social Enterprise Development in Manitoba. The thesis of the…

Prepared by Nicole Chaland (CCEDNet) and Lorenzo Magzul of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network for the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Within a CED approach, housing initiatives can strengthen…

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…

This workbook was developed as part of a series of research projects on food security. As well as using research and experiences drawn from the Nova Scotia Food Security Projects,…

A set of workbooks to guide Community Development from the Assest-Based Community Development Network at Northwestern University in Illinois.

Counting Women In: A Toolkit for Rural Action on Poverty is the culmination of eight years of research and community development by the Rural Women Take Action on Poverty Committee….

This dissertation explores the particular evolution of an organization, the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation, to shed light on the co-operative development process, and compares some of its complexities to the Manitoba…

For two decades now I have worked with many community based organizations and multi-sectoral collaborations on a wide variety of issues. Recently I have found those organizations focusing more and…