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In its role as Scotland’s independent regeneration network, SURF is developing a ‘manifesto for community regeneration’. The final version will be presented to the main political parties for debate in…
In September 2015, the world’s governments approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a 15-year plan of action for ‘people, planet and prosperity’ (Preamble,…
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even…
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…
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast…
How do low-income communities learn to advance economically and build wealth? Low-income communities and communities of color, in challenging structural economic and social inequality, have historically grappled with tensions inherent…
REDF commissioned a first-of-its-kind jobs study to evaluate the impact of social enterprise for people facing barriers to work and its benefits for society. Social enterprises (SEs) are mission-driven businesses…
In the 2000s, community advocates spent several years calling for a comprehensive provincial poverty reduction plan that shows Manitobans how far we have come and where the province plans to…
Social enterprise has been a growing practice in the non-profit sector, with innovators seeing value in using the market to accomplish social goals and governments showing increased interest in this…
For every government dollar invested in Momentum’s Self Employment Program over $7 is returned to the community, reveals a new economic evaluation. Momentum’s Self Employment Program has been offering business…
Do investments in poor neighborhoods really make a difference? In a new study by LISC, the answer is yes. The report shows that in neighborhoods where LISC invested heavily, jobs…
