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NEW & NEWSWORTHY!
FROM CCE TO CCCR
Since 1988, the Centre for Community Enterprise has partnered with the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal to unlock issues in CED and social economy. Each organization brought its own suite of skills and resources to the task.
The magnitude and complexity of the issues faced by communities today requires something different - a structure and strategy that enable still more creative action at both the local and regional levels. We are therefore combining the two organizations into one, the nonprofit Canadian Centre for Community Renewal (CCCR). Its mission and staff will focus more effort on community resilience, local food systems, and community-based carbon reduction, and on social enterprise as a vehicle of change.
We look forward to working with you!
MAKING WAVES - SPRING 2009
In a time of climate change, recession, and the decline of oil-fired economies, our need for certainty becomes a straitjacket. Instead, communities must ready and able to bring a new level of exploration and collaboration to their problem-solving. The contents of the Spring 2009 edition challenge readers to "speak up - reach out - invent, discard, retool - make communities thrive." Click here for more details.
Coming up this autumn, a Special Edition concerning Capital for Communities. Leading scholars and practitioners explain how to make capital play a catalytic (rather than catastrophic) role in the lives of our communities. Click here for more details. Pour le français.
CED DIGITAL BOOKSHOP HOTLISTS!
There's now nearly 700 items in the CED Digital Bookshop. We've grouped 100 or so that we particularly recommend into nine themes or Hotlists: Government, Evaluation, Social Enterprise, Business, Poverty, Co-operatives, Aboriginal Economic Development, Rural Revitalization, and Local Food Systems. Check 'em out!
Jobs and income are critical to a town or neighbourhood's way of life; so are education, safety, housing, a healthy environment, and a vibrant social and cultural life. People used to think if businesses brought jobs and income, the rest would in time follow.
But there is a better way.
Community economic development (CED) is the process by which people build organizations and partnerships that interconnect profitable business with other interests and values - like quality jobs, marketable skills, good health, affordable housing, equal opportunity, and ecological responsibility. Businesses become an integral part of a far greater agenda - a local movement to build (or rebuild) a community that is creative, inclusive, and sustainable in the near and distant future.
CED is one of the most challenging things your town, constituency, or organization may ever undertake. There's no need to do it alone.
The Canadian Centre for Community Renewal is a pre-eminent source of expertise and resources in starting and strengthening CED organizations, revitalizing communities, developing community-minded businesses, CED curriculum design and delivery, and publishing - including the quarterly CED magazine Making Waves. Check out these pages for details about training, technical assistance, research, and our other services and products.
If it's inspiring, practical, and provocative services and resources you require, you've come to the right place.
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