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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 ...
Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You
(Making Waves, 2006)
How expensive energy will change community practice.
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 ...
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)
How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the
construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ...
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. ...
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(2007-09-18)
In recent years, social science research has increasingly acknowledged the role of the social economy in
building sustainable communities, and, around the world, co-operatives are recognized as major actors in
the social ...
The Root of the Matter: Insiders Guide to Community Renewal #1
(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.
Building a Solidarity Economy in the 21st Century
(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 3 Levels Of Outcomes: A Framework For Evaluating Multidimensional CED
(Making Waves, 2000)
CED organizations can undertake a tremendous range of activities in the service of their constituents and communities. This article reports on how one CED organization (see Torjman, 2000 as well) clarified the outcomes ...
Kauai Fresh: From food bank to a catalyst of food security
(Making Waves, 2006)
As its "Kauai Fresh" food brand demonstrates, Kauai Food Bank Ohana is learning how to give its charitable activities an entrepreneurial edge. Dependency is giving way to capacity and partnerships as this organization ...