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Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Enterprise
(2007-03-04)
Mark Cabaj in his “Peoples History” of CED and the Social Economy notes the fundamental and pervasive role of natural resources in the evolution of Canada’s peoples and communities.. Landscapes carved by natural forces ...
Introduction to SE Reader
(2007-07-20)
The wide ranging articles in this volume engage us in the critical reflections and learning of individuals, groups, organizations, enterprises and institutions that are in the trenches, actors and researchers who believe ...
Sustainable Livelihoods
(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 ...
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
(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 ...
Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools
(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 ...
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.
The Solidarity Economy in North America : An Emerging Debate - January 2007
(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 ...
Concepts and Context
(2007-03-04)
This first section of the book introduces key concepts, assumptions and ways of understanding the context within which CED and the social economy have evolved. While making no claim this modest beginning represents some ...
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 ...
Taking the YouthBuild Challenge
(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 - ...