Canadian CED Network

Year: 2017

Caroline Hossein

A Black Perspective on Canada’s Third Sector: Case Studies on Women Leaders in the Social Economy

While many Black Canadian women are innovators in the third sector, the contributions of Black people to the social economy go largely unnoticed in the academic literature. The social economy…
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Putting the “Local” in Economic Development: The Role of the Social and Solidarity Economy

SSE organizations are more open to exchange between the production system and the local community due to their participatory governance structures and their attention toward social integration – in short,…
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Community Benefits Agreements: Empowering Communities To Maximize Returns on Public Infrastructure Investments

The Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy (IFSD) is a Canadian think-tank sitting at the nexus of public finance and state institutions. Fiscal ecosystems include governments, legislatures, the public administration…
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Realizing Social and Economic Objectives through Infrastructure Planning and Investment

This research explores how Ontario municipalities can use community benefits to maximize social and economic outcomes through better infrastructure planning and investment, in order to deliver better outcomes for people…
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Community Benefits from Development: Improving Neighbourhoods and Enabling Affordable Housing

The City of Vancouver prepares annual reports on development contributions – containing important details of what contributions were made and how they were allocated, enabling the public as well as…
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Social and Economic Impacts of RISQ Investments

A study that confirms the RISQ’s essential role and the effectiveness of its approach! Since 1997, the RISQ has been a proud partner of numerous business successes reflecting the needs…
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Maximise Your Impact – A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs

This guide is written for social entrepreneurs who want to maximise their positive impact and want a practical approach to help them do that. By impact we mean creating changes…
Engage, Design, Evaluate: The Social Value Scorecard for Community Benefit Agreements

Engage, Design, Evaluate: The Social Value Scorecard for Community Benefit Agreements

Real estate development and major infrastructure projects can have a profound impact on the communities in which they take place. Large developments have the capability to change the character of…
Measuring Community Capacity Resource Kit

Measuring Community Capacity Resource Kit

You can access the Measuring Community Capacity Resource Kit by downloading it and printing it yourself, or by ordering a hard copy from us by downloading the order form using the link…
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Community-Led Development in Aotearoa: Ngā Mātāpono Principles

The essence of Community-led Development (CLD) is working together in a place to create and achieve locally-owned visions and goals.  Rather than being a model or service, CLD is a planning…
Culture and Local Development: Maximising the Impact Government

Culture and Local Development: Maximising the Impact

Museums and cultural heritage sites are powerful assets for local development. They can help attract tourists, bring revenues, regenerate local economies, promote inclusion, boost cultural diversity and reinvent territorial identity. For several…

Network Effectiveness in Neighborhood Collaborations: Learning from the Chicago Community Networks Study

Community initiatives are notoriously difficult to evaluate. This is because neighborhoods are complex and it is hard to untangle and measure causal outcome drivers among the economic, demographic, and institutional…