Social Economy - General: Recent submissions
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Community-Based Recycling put on Hold: Cambridge’s failed bid to replicate the ERS
(Making Waves, 1995)Inspired by the success of the Edmonton Recycling Society,(Guenter, 1995) an innovative CED organization in Southern Ontario mobilized to compete for a major recycling contract in the Waterloo region. However, procurement ... -
The Edmonton Recycling Society: Cutting-Edge Business With A Social Mission
(Making Waves, 1995)The Edmonton Recycling Society shows how economic activities can be environmentally sound, provide meaningful employment to people with disabilities, earn a competitive rate of return, and be seen to be one of the top ... -
Team Players: Good news from Nova Scotia about the role of government in CED
(Making Waves, 2003)What would it be like if government officials responded to CED and social enterprise initiatives not with detachment or disdain (or alarm) but eagerly, as committed partners? It's been happening in Nova Scotia. The whole ... -
The Good News from Manitoba: How one provincial government has evolved into a leader in CED policy & programming
(Making Waves, 2004)Garry Loewen explains how Manitoba has evolved into a leader in CED policy and programming. The party in power is one key factor. Another has been the growth over the years of a local "CED community" from which that ... -
The Challenge In Designing Government Programs For CED
(Making Waves, 2002)The often sorry record of government in community economic development has important lessons for future CED program designers. Ingrained socio-economic distress requires long-term, multidimensional action. Local people ... -
Strategy For Structures: Lessons In Community & Regional Economic Development
(Making Waves, 2000)The current distribution of power between local, regional, and national governments often runs contrary to common sense as well as economic reality. There is no cut-and-dried solution. But research into recent experience ... -
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 ... -
Growth With Equity: Research Reports Best Practice In The USA
(Making Waves, 2000)Excerpts from "From the Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged" (Aspen Institute, 1993) came out about the same time as people in Canada were beginning to organize around ... -
Build On Positive Results: CED's Best Practice In Canada Should Have Major Implications For Upcoming Reforms To Social Security Legislation
(Making Waves, 1994)Cases such as RESO (Richard, 2004), Kitsaki Development Corporation (Decter and Kowall), Coastal Enterprises Inc (Black, 2006), and many others not included in this volume provoked interest inside a small agency called ... -
Venture Capital for Social Enterprise: SCP's Approach to the Social Capital Market
(Making Waves, 2004)Like any venture capital organization, Social Capital Partners of Toronto has to separate "exciting ideas" from "worthwhile investments." But that's where the similarity ends. SCP is looking for partners with the will and ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
An Inch Wide & A Mile Deep: Southern’s targeted approach to rural revitalization
(Making Waves, 2006)Having worked for 10 years in the rural outback of Mississippi with a relatively rich array of development finance tools at their disposal, Southern Development Bancorporation had marginal success to point to. Instead of ... -
Learning Community Development Finance: Doing Development in Arkansas
(Making Waves, 2006)This thoughtful book review is a rich and fascinating case study of community development finance. The case study is based on ten years of work by an organization started in 1986, called Southern Development Bancorporation. ... -
Regional Citizen Action: New England's InterValley Project advances the cutting edge of democratic economic development
(Making Waves, 1997)Six years later, Ken Galston reports on the advances made since his article “Community Organizing & Economic Democracy in New England” (1991). He reinforces the crucial role of stable, long term development capacity and ... -
Community Organizing & Economic Democracy in New England
(Making Waves, 1991)Citizens' action organizations in the Naugatuck and Merrimack valleys in rural and small town Connecticut have been integrating strategies of social and economic development to restore a region seriously threatened by the ... -
A Case Study Of Kitsaki Development Corporation
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 1993)This selection from the book “Regional Development from the Bottom Up” (Centre for Community Enterprise, 1993) details the evolution of one of Canada's foremost community economic development corporations in the 1980s and ... -
From this Earth: NECRC & the evolution of a development system in Winnipeg's North End
(Making Waves, 2002)The power and promise of the community development corporation (CDC) lies in the way residents can use it to co-ordinate and focus the energy that people and organizations, near and far, are willing to pour into local ... -
Transformed By Community Economic Development--Southwest Montréal Now Has A Future As Well As A Past
(Making Waves, 2004)It's taken well on 20 years, but the decline of Montreal's old southwest quarter has been halted. A community-driven strategy, unprecedented in Canada for its scale and comprehensiveness, has turned five rundown neighbourhoods ... -
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 ...