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Social Enterprise in Human Services and Affordable Housing
(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 ...
Building Community Wealth
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 2006)
This book was developed and tested as a resource to accompany a full-day workshop on Social Enterprise: Assessing Readiness and Getting Started in SE, which is part of the Development Wheel project.
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 ...
BALTA Highlights - January-February 2007
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007-02)
An update/newsletter on development of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA).
BALTA Highlights Report - January 3, 2007
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007-01)
An update/newsletter on development of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA).
Place-based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada
(Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2005-03)
To inform the efforts to address this new policy challenge now under way across Canada, this paper explores experiences in Britain, Europe and the United States. Governments there started earlier than Canada and have ...
Review of Placing the Social Economy by Amin, Cameron, Hudson in 2002
(2008-02-18)
This book offers a challenging assessment of the merits of the social economy, with far-reaching implications for policy
and attitudes towards the social economy. It analyses
the performance of this sector in different
parts ...
Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace
(Making Waves, 2003)
Scale and markets notwithstanding, Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York City) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia) have plenty to teach Canada's co-operators and other CED activists. Kreiner challenges CED ...
A Day In The Life Of Le Boulot Vers
(Making Waves, 2004)
For nearly a generation now, Montréal's Le Boulot vers ... has been helping young people make the break from poverty, alienation, and dependency, and discover instead a world of opportunity. Most often referred to as a ...
Assets, Equity, & Empowerment: At Quint, Housing Is One Part of the Community Development Equation
(Making Waves, 1998)
Since its launch in 1995, Quint Development Corporation has skillfully fused local determination with outside expertise, money, & political influence. This article was written before the results were in. Since, Quint's ...