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    • The Potluck Café: Navigating the "twilight zone" of social enterprise 

      Lougheed Green, Liz (Making Waves, 2004)
      Since 2001, a small shop in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been serving 1000s of meals to some of the city's most sick and isolated residents, while training and employing others in food preparation. Now, after three ...
    • Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace 

      Kreiner, Sherman (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 ...
    • 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 - ...
    • 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.
    • The Political Imperative: Civil Society and the Politics of Empowerment 

      Neamtan, Nancy (Making Waves, 2004)
      There's a driving desire in this country right now for deep change to the way we live and govern ourselves. I see it ion the women's movement, the co-op movement, the environmental movement, in labour, in community economic ...
    • Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You 

      Perry, Stewart E.; McNair, Don (Making Waves, 2006)
      How expensive energy will change community practice.
    • New Synergies: The Co-operative Movement, CED, and the Social Economy 

      Wall, John; Duguay, Patrick; Rohan, Shannon (Making Waves, 2004)
      It is said that "at the core of every co-ops history is an unmet need."
    • Introduction to SE Reader 

      Lewis, Mike (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 ...
    • Faith Based Support for CED: God's call for Justice 

      Baum, Gregory (Making Waves, 2001)
      Karl Polanyi did not look upon the reconstruction of society as primarily a political task that could be achieved by a government with socialist ideas. Reconstruction had to be social.
    • Co-ops, the social economy, and CED in Quebec 

      Ninacs, Bill; Moreland, Frank (Making Waves, 2001)
      Understanding the relationship between CED and the co-operative movement in Quebec
    • CED & the Social Economy 

      Cabaj, Mark (Making Waves, 2004)
    • Building a Solidarity Economy in the 21st Century 

      Lewis, Mike; Conaty, Patrick (Newsletter of the North American Network for the Solidarity Economy, 2004)
      "If we don't set out a stronger theoretical base for our work, if the movements we build are simply pragmatic & without a sound intellectual base, we will not succeed in changing hearts and minds." Pat Conaty
    • 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 ...
    • Building Community Wealth 

      Lewis, Mike (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.
    • 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 ...
    • Concepts and Context 

      Lewis, Mike (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 ...
    • Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Enterprise 

      Lewis, Mike (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 ...


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