Browsing Social Economy Reader Collection by Author "Lewis, Mike"
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Build On Positive Results: CED's Best Practice In Canada Should Have Major Implications For Upcoming Reforms To Social Security Legislation
Lewis, Mike (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 ... -
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 -
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. -
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
Perry, Stewart E.; Lewis, Mike (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 ... -
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 ... -
The Ecology Of Success: The Problem Of Scaling Up What Works In CED
Lewis, Mike (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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Oregon Benchmarks: Oregonians Are Getting Results From This Approach To Governance. Can We Too?
Lewis, Mike (Making Waves, 2001)When the ends are in sight - and measurable - the means are less divisive. Thanks to a focus on specific outcomes for policy, Oregon is building a culture of collaboration and learning between sectors, regions, and interest ... -
Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development
Lewis, Mike; Lockhart, R.A. (Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002)This report defines the language of outcomes, indicators, and performance measures and then summarizes a review of applications of several strategies and tools for tracking progress that have been developed since the late ... -
Public Institution or Public Nuisance? HRSDC, the community sector's increasingly dysfunctional "partner"
Lewis, Mike (Making Waves, 2004)Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) went off the deep end in the years following the so-called "Billion Dollar Boondoggle" back in 2000-01. In response to perceived public pressure, the Ministry introduced ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
Lewis, Mike (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 ... -
Sustainable Livelihoods
Lewis, Mike; Colussi, Michelle; Lockhart, Alexander (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 ... -
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 - ... -
Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools
Lewis, Mike (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 ...