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Across Canada, community-based organizations are engaging in diverse economic development activities with the goal of building profitable businesses and healthy communities with strong social indicators. They are practicing Community Economic…
This paper was developed by a group of people brought together by the Action for Neighbourhood Change initiative. It presents an understanding of how change occurs in a neighbourhood which…
Community groups wishing to get involved in economic development are successful when they carefully assess economic conditions and work on one carefully chosen pivot point. After initial successes and evidence…
The first segment of the session focused on the power of CBAs as a tool for responsible redevelopment. Discussion centered on the imbalance of power among the parties involved in…
Immigrant and refugee persons face serious settlement challenges. Integrating into their new community is made exceedingly difficult due to their limited social and professional networks, the non-recognition of foreign experience…
The social economy is rapidly gaining in visibility at the international, national and local levels in most OECD member countries. Social economy — also know as ‘non-profit’ or ‘third sector’…
Rapid social, economic and technological change, driven in large part by globalization, are intensifying the challenges faced by Canadian communities. The new forms of social cleavage that are emerging require…
The purpose of this report is to support the discussions of the Canadian Women’s Foundation Economic Development Planning Committee in their review of the Foundation’s economic development work. The report…
This report focuses on socially creative strategies (SCS), mainly in reaction to exclusion dynamics (ED) in the “labour market, employment strategies and social economy” existential field. This existential field is…
Accountability, value for money, results‐based management, audits and evaluation are prominent themes in state‐social economy interactions in Canada today. Community economic development organizations have been put on the defensive by…
There is growing awareness in Canada of the importance of “place” in poverty reduction. Research shows that place matters in the quality of life for all citizens and the prosperity…
Chapter 8 in Claire Dumont and Gary Kielhofner (eds.). Positive Approaches to Health. Nova Science Publishers, 2007. Abstract: This chapter is about intersectoral action, individual and community empowerment as keys…
