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Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation: A Community Venture Repatriates Benefits from Local Public Forests
(Making Waves, 1995)
Economically prostrate in the mid 1980s, the town of Revelstoke, BC has demonstrated how a small community can regain a say in its economic future. The Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC) is a community-owned ...
Crafting Sustainable Development: A Case Study Of Maine's Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
(Making waves, 1999)
What do community economic development practitioners have to learn from environmentalists? What does environmentalism stand to gain from CED? By implementing a multi-dimensional concept of sustainability, Coastal Enterprises, ...
Are Outcomes The Best Outcome?
(Making Waves, 2000)
This commentary challenges the obsession with outcomes as part of the preoccupation with accountability. It recognises the need for clearly defined targets, but it argues that many crucial and equally important developments ...
Incrementality - This Strange Term Is Key To Setting Realistic Goals And Standards For CED Practice
(Making Waves, 2000)
Funders and policy analysts have unrealistic notions about evaluating CED, which applies unique combinations of resources to complex social and economic problems. That said, community groups could improve their effectiveness ...
The Community Resilience Manual--A New Resource Will Link Rural Revitalization To CED Best Practice
(Making Waves, 1999)
All our small towns aren't reeling from current economic developments; some have prospered, responding to crisis with creativity, unity, and a determination to control their own destiny. What have they got that others ...
New Generation Co-Operatives : Part of a Revitalization Strategy for Rural Communities
(Making Waves, 2001)
Their exclusiveness puts them at odds with some co-operators and CED activists New Generation Co-operatives are nevertheless proving an effective instrument of rural revitalization, helping producers move up the value chain ...
The Ecology Of Success: The Problem Of Scaling Up What Works In CED
(Making Waves, 2000)
This is the keystone article of this volume, with respect to the challenge of scaling up innovations achieving demonstrable results. Lizbeth Schorr, one of America’s foremost researchers on the subject, distills the lessons ...
Breaking The Rules : Strategies For The Survival Of Small Investment Funds
(Making Waves, 1998)
By definition, the credit needs of marginalized communities and populations are unlikely to be met by conventional means. Reflecting on the success of BCA Holdings, Inc., Greg McCleod, one of the pioneers of CED and Community ...
Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development
(Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002)
This report defines the language of outcomes, indicators, and performance measures and then summarizes a review of applications of several strategies and tools for tracking progress that have been developed since the late ...
Public Institution or Public Nuisance? HRSDC, the community sector's increasingly dysfunctional "partner"
(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 ...