Themes: Rural CED

The definitive history of Canada’s oldest community-development corporation, written by its former President and CEO. In the 1970s, Cape Breton was a place of limited prospects. The community had no…

The Community Dialogue Toolkit is a “how to” guide to holding community-based dialogue sessions. It has been written for use by community leaders of all types. Anyone who can start…

Community Futures are Community Futures Development Corporations and Community Business Development Corporations (CFDCs/CBDCs) that provide their communities with a variety of services including business development loans, technical support, training and…

Coming together to build from within… Strong, prosperous communities don’t just happen. They are forged from the wisdom and abilities of their members and their willingness to work together towards…

The Government of Ontario created the Rural Economic Development Data and Intelligence (REDDI) site to support the development of rural communities in the province. You will find on this site…

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) looks at community development from the view of the glass being half full rather than being half empty. It challenges the traditional ‘top down’ or ‘outside…

Welcome to Community Futures Pan West, a joint initiative of the four provincial Community Futures associations that was established in 1996 and formally incorporated in 2018. Working in partnership with…

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,…

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…

In this final session of the Just Transition Research Collaborative webinar series, the focus is on power and politics and unpack what has happened to Just Transitions in the five…

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…

This guidebook and readiness assessment tool were developed by the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department (OECDD) to help communities assess their business and community development capacity and to identify…