Browsing by Author "Lewis, Mike"

Project C9-2007 - CED and Social Economy Policy Inventory in B.C. and Alberta (Phase One)

Lewis, Mike; Sousa, Jorge (2007-04-11)

The work on policy outlined in this annex is conceived of as a first phase in an ongoing project that will extend beyond one year. In developing and implementing an inventory of federal and provincial legislation, policies, ...

Public Institution or Public Nuisance? HRSDC, the community sector's increasingly dysfunctional "partner"

Lewis, Mike (Making Waves, 2004)

Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) went off the deep end in the years following the so-called "Billion Dollar Boondoggle" back in 2000-01. In response to perceived public pressure, the Ministry introduced ...

The Root of the Matter: Insiders Guide to Community Renewal #1

Gilson, Bob; McNair, Don; Lewis, Mike; LePage, David (Making Waves, 2004)

A graphic history of Community Renewal that discusses how the economy became separated from society, and what we can do about it.

SERC 3 WorkPlan – 2007-2008 Year

BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA); Lewis, Mike (2007-09-18)

SERC 3 has chosen to elevate key questions as being central to the strategic vision it advances for its work. Together they speak to context and how we understand the social economy – its drivers, the obstacles it faces ...

Social Economy? Solidarity Economy? Exploring the Implications of Conceptual Nuance for Acting in a Volatile World

Lewis, Mike; Swinney, Dan (Published as "Social economy and solidarity economy: Transformative concepts for unprecedented times" in Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei (Eds.). Solidarity economy: building alternatives for people and planet. Changemaker Publications, Chicago., 2008)

This paper suggests that the solidarity economy as a conceptual framework in progress may have significant theoretical and strategic implications for actors in the social economy. The distinct boundaries most social economy ...

Social Enterprise in Human Services and Affordable Housing

Lewis, Mike (2007-03-04)

Human services and affordable housing are two constant themes in the history of CED and the social economy. This is not surprising. How we care for each other, or not, speaks centrally to the character of our social relations ...

The Solidarity Economy in North America : An Emerging Debate - January 2007

Lewis, Mike (2007-03-03)

The language of the solidarity economy is not exactly common vocabulary in Canada or the U.S. Even among practitioners and activists in community economic development, the social economy, co-operatives, economic democracy ...

Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy

Lewis, Mike (2007-08-21)

The idea of a web of supports being of central importance to the revitalization and renewal of a particular place, or to the development of social enterprises, has been amply illustrated in several of the contributions ...

Sustainable Livelihoods

Lewis, Mike; Colussi, Michelle; Lockhart, Alexander (Rural Secretariat Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2004-06)

Written as a national policy paper for the Rural Secretariat, this paper provides a succinct and clear overview of several rural trends, challenges, strategies, and policy options for increasing the sustainability of rural ...

Taking the YouthBuild Challenge

Lewis, Mike; Gilson, Bob (Making Waves, 2002)

Many 21st century dilemmas will defy small-scale solutions. Here's a way to scale up a hugely successful youth at risk program started in the U.S. with some innovative ways of mobilizing Credit Union financing; the aim - ...

Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools

Lewis, Mike (2007-08-21)

Tracking progress is easy to say and hard to do. It becomes even harder in an era when tracking progress and accountability have often been morphed into rigid patterns of bean counting. People working in the trenches are ...