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Solidarity First: Building a movement for just & sustainable economies in Quebec

The story of Quebec’s social economy movement is little known in Canada and even in many parts of Quebec. This may seem surprising given the interest that the Quebec model…

Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

CHNA Toolkit The CHNA toolkit is a free web-based platform designed to assist hospitals (with particular attention to critical access and other smaller facilities), non-profit organizations, state and local health…
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CED Profile: Ellice Café and Theatre

This is one of the Canadian CED Network’s CED in Manitoba Profiles Project produced 50 stories of Manitoba communities working to build fairer and stronger local economies, reduce poverty, and revitalize…

Four Pivot-Points for Rebuilding Local Economies

From “Tools You Can Use” E-newsletter. Copyright Fieldstone Alliance (formerly Wilder Publishing Center). All rights reserved. Sign-up for “Tools” at www.FieldstoneAlliance.org and get free management tips every two weeks. Contents…
How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets Art and Culture

Tapping Local Arts and Culture to Revitalize Communities

Originally from the “Tools You Can Use” e-newsletter. Copyright Fieldstone Alliance (now Turner Publishing). All rights reserved. WHAT MAKES A NEIGHBORHOOD, a town, or a city a great place to…

Development Isle Madame Association Inc.

The primary purpose of this site is to tell the story of a successful grassroots community economic development initiative in Nova Scotia. The website includes descriptions of challenges and barriers,…
CCEDNet

Business Recovery, Stabilization and Succession Project Reports

Working together with Flourish Community Development Co-op, Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick, CDR-Acadie, and a range of other national and local stakeholders working on business succession models, CCEDNet has completed an action research project…

Assessing The Potential For Local Procurement As An Economic Engine

An Analysis Of Public Sector Institutional Spending In Atlantic Canada An institution’s possible role as an economic engine for their local economies has been validated by current success stories in…

Building The Solidarity Economy In The Context of COVID & Black Lives Matter

In the US, the dual crises of COVID and racist policing are highlighting failures in our racist capitalist patriarchal economy, forcing people — especially those who are most marginalized under…

A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy

The intersecting crises of income and wealth inequality and climate change, driven by systemic white supremacy and gender inequality, has exposed the frailty of the U.S. economy and democracy. This…
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Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy

With growing awareness about the role of social and solidarity economy in facilitating inclusive and sustainable development, comes an increasing number of governments, both at national and subnational levels, adopting…
Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems: Building the Social Economy on PEI

Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems: Building the Social Economy on PEI

The Government of PEI, through projects embedded and championed in the Executive Council Office, has been exploring and developing a betier understanding of Social Enterprise over the past several years….