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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…
Is public policy advocacy a worthwhile way for CED activists to spend their time? Probably not, if their onslaught is isolated in time, space, or numbers. That’s why the Canadian…
This report is an outcome of the Natural Assets Project, a collaborative initiative of the Political Economy Research Institute supported by the Ford Foundation. The report draws on papers prepared…
How can local communities respond to pressing issues like restructuring, unemployment, the loss of social services, social isolation and dislocation? What avenues are open for people who have been marginalised…
To better respond to a new set of concerns of the population and promote sustainable development, governments today actively seek a broad partnership with civil society and the private sector….
This paper is about women and their transition out of poverty. It explores the process by which women use enterprise development as a vehicle to make changes in their lives,…
This workbook examines how communities have turned threats to their well-being into opportunities through a process of transformation. It tells the stories of eight communities as they broke out of…
This workbook explores these questions: How do you build your rural community from the inside out? How do you find and mobilize the assets of your small town and rural…
Introduction This report responds to one of the five policy recommendations made at the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) National Policy Forum held in March, 2001. The purpose of…
This paper is part of a larger research study on the Aboriginal co-operative movement (A Report on Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada: Current Situation and Potential for Growth). The study was…
There is no question that co-operatives lead by example. Not only do they provide a way to successfully meet the economic and social needs of Canadians, but they are also…
In a grey industrial area of Winnipeg, there is an island of green. Herbs, flowers and vegetables flourish in a hydroponic greenhouse, tended by the young employees of Growing Prospects….
