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The Insiders' Guides are 4-page, 8.5 x 11 inch publications that use illustration and straightforward language to do two things:
support the efforts of practitioners and other activists to make mainstream some concepts and tools critical to community revitalization. foster a debate about effective strategies for community education and engagement in the development process. It's important to understand that these publications are not supposed to stand on their own. They can't "convince" anybody of anything. Rather, IGs are just one more way to support a process of community engagement, along with all the oral presentations, radio and TV interviews, newsletters, posters, music, etc., that practitioners bring to bear. And if some playful language and pictures makes people smile, so much the better. CCE staff developed the theme, text, and layout of each in consultation with a group of practitioners. We then took the finished "IG" to press in the pages of the quarterly magazine Making Waves. Please download, revise, and print them to suit your constitutents and strategy. Then let us know how they work for you and how we can improve them. (Note - there are both high and low-resolution copies of each. The latter makes for a better print copy and includes crop marks for your local printer.) We acknowledge VanCity Community Foundation and the Canada Magazine Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage for their generous support of the first series of Insiders' Guides to Community Renewal, which shall appear in the Making Waves editions Summer, Autumn, and Winter 2004 and Spring 2005.
Merci à l'Association des Francophones du Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario (AFNOO) et à la Société d'aide au développement de la collectivité de Supérieur Nord, les guides no 1 - 3 sont aussi disponibles en français. Insiders' Guide #1 - The Root of the Matter Community economic development stresses the importance of multidimensional action, and challenges economic decisions made without regard to social relationships and the natural environment. IG #1 is a glimpse into the history of that (recent) divergence of economy from people and the planet and the ideas that drive it. Must we go on like this? Can we go on like this? Download IG#1 in low resolution
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Insiders' Guide #2 - What's Up, Doc? Why is it that some communities are going bust, while others are booming? Here is a look the economic "treatments" commonly prescribed for distressed communities: corporate recruitment, government intervention, self-employment, land development, and nonprofit projects. Each has its points, but in the 21st Century, all function far better within a more comprehensive, far-reaching understanding of community and economy. Download IG#2 in low resolution
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Insiders' Guide #3 - Play Ball! For a community to thrive, 10 tasks are essential - not 2, not 3, but 10. Like the positions on a ball team, each needs to be carried out with skill, oomph, and in close co-ordination with the rest. Teamwork is what it's all about. Here is an introduction to the rationale for comprehensive, community-based planning and action for deteriorating towns and neighbourhoods. Download IG#3 in low resolution
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Insiders' Guide #4 - Lost in Space This final installment in the first series of Insiders' Guides names the attributes of the creative, inclusive, and sustainable community - the goal of community economic development. Affluence and size are not the target, but diverse, locally-controlled resources and organizations, visionary leadership, systematic planning, and a culture of co-operation and mutual assistance. Download IG#4 and its Facilitator Notes in low resolution
What should we do next? Please suggest topics for the next series of Insiders' Guides. |
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