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The MIT Community Innovators Lab and the The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative have jointly compiled an extensive training workshop series that focusses on allowing excluded populations to engage, unite, and participate in civil society in…
The Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) has built a strong community-labour partnership with a support base of workforce development agencies, learning institutions and funders. Collectively, TCBN are having impact on…
This collection of eleven cases of citizens organizing for change in Canada and the United States gives form and substance to the ideal of a new economy based on fairness…
Social enterprises—mission-driven businesses that break down barriers to employment—represent a cost-effective investment for society. For every dollar social enterprises spend, they return $2.23 to society, including $1.31 to taxpayers from…
This report, published in partnership by the Center on Social Disparities in Health, the Build Healthy Places Network, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a “resource for those working…
In this paper David Lerch, Publications Director of the Post Carbon Institute and founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association, offers a new framework for…
Read this guide if you want to: Understand the benefits of partnership working Learn how to work effectively together When a sample of CED areas were asked what they need…
The objective of this briefing is to assess the economic impact on Ontario of the lending services provided through the Community Futures Program—a federal program designed to stimulate economic development…
This book examines the concept of financial health and well-being from many perspectives, bringing together the voices of long-time champions of financial capability and newer voices hailing from a variety…
Mainstreets can be a powerful catalyst to create resilient and thriving communities Co*lab made this toolkit after piloting a process called Mainstreets. Their approach and methods project is an accumulation…
Over the next decade, Ontario will invest billions of dollars in infrastructure ranging from transit expansion to new roads and repairs to existing bridges. Cities and towns across the province…
“Challenging the Crisis” is a 3-year Development Education project led by IDEA, in Ireland, with partners in 5 other EU countries – Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Greece. For IDEA,…
