Year: 2004

The Guidebook is both a reference document and a workbook. The Guidebook supports a community through the planning process including workshops and results in a plan document. It provides a simple, practical, effective way…

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…

So much of human history is about communities that mainstream society has forgotten or pushed aside. Groups of people bound together by common location, experience, or values find their way…

The use of public procurement to achieve social outcomes is widespread, but detailed information about how it operates is often sketchy and difficult to find. This article is essentially a…

How to assess what works among programmes and policies Policy evaluation poses conceptual, technical and institutional challenges, particularly in the case of local development. Data is often inadequate and multiple…

“Few people in this country know as much about community building as Jim Diers. The case studies and ideas in this book are extremely powerful evidence that real communities are…

What does a typical project look like that is considered by college staff to be an exemplary practice in community development in a rural or remote community? Based on the…

Drawing inspiration from the Council of Europe Strategy for Social Cohesion, this volume analyses from different angles the new forms of economic solidarity and responsibility which European citizens are setting…

A research report on women and community economic development (CED) in Canada The present research was initiated by the Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) and the Canadian Women’s Community Economic Development…

This paper is a starting point for a discussion about the role the co-operative sector can play in assisting immigrants and refugees in Canada and the role that the immigrant…

The Business of Inclusion is a series of reports documenting the findings from research on the developmental stage of the Toronto Enterprise Fund and the enterprises it supports. The twenty…

Many not-for profit organizations resist thinking of themselves as “brands” or “potential brands.” For many, branding is a dirty word that conjures up images of plain old hucksterism and sale…