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Skilled immigrants have been identified as a key source of labour supply for addressing the expected labour market shortages in Canada arising from an aging population and strong economic growth…
For more than ten years, RDÉE Canada (Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité) has collaborated with provincial and territorial organizations (12 RDÉE) to enhance the vitality and support the development…
Women’s Venture, a self-employment training program, decreases the likelihood participants will need government assistance, subsidized health care and other support services in the future while increasing the likelihood they will…
Early in 2011 Bow Valley College’s Office of Applied Research and Innovation was contacted by the Community Futures Network of Alberta, also referred to as Community Futures Alberta, requesting to…
This project gathered ideas from leading experts in the US to develop job creation proposals that met the following criteria: designed for implementation by cities and/or states and will lead…
This workshop-style webinar explains the value of, and takes you through the steps for creating your own food hub feasibility study. Food hubs (regional aggregation points) have been identified by…
The Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota — a retail business cooperative and incubator — is the result of the creativity and hard work of members of a Latino immigrant community…
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 is a 2-page profile of Common Thread marketing co-operative, which procures contracts and builds skills by teaching the ancient art of sewing to women, many of whom have mental…
The Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy has published a report finding there is substantial, if not yet extensive, evidence that community financial literacy interventions can make an important contribution to…
The gap between the rich and the poor in Canada has widened dramatically over the last two decades and the depth and duration of poverty has increased. Children, women, lone…
