BALTA Social Economy Reader: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
New Generation Co-Operatives : Part of a Revitalization Strategy for Rural Communities
(Making Waves, 2001)Their exclusiveness puts them at odds with some co-operators and CED activists New Generation Co-operatives are nevertheless proving an effective instrument of rural revitalization, helping producers move up the value chain ... -
Community-controlled economic development as a strategic vision for the sustainable agriculture movement
(Making Waves, 2000)If industrial agriculture is ever to be dislodged, its opponents must achieve a strategic vision that encompasses a vast range of issues. Labour practices, pesticide reduction, farmland protection, nutrition, and consumer ... -
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 ... -
Rural Paradox; The agricultural land trust looks tailor-made for CED. But is it?
(Making Waves, 2006)In the agricultural land trust, rural Canada has at hand a useful structure for defending small-scale farming from industrial agriculture. But trusts will not get to square one until farmers themselves start to question ...