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The
Canadian CED Network
Promoting excellence in the field of CED, this partnership is committed
to developing and delivering products and strategies and fostering
the public policy environment that will increase the scale and effectiveness
of CED in Canada.
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Community
Economic Development Technical Assistance Program (CEDTAP)
A Canada-wide matching service that brings communities and technical
assistance providers together to CED capacity and opportunity.
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CEDAC: CED
Across Canada
This Pan-Canadian Web Portal is a growing, on-line source of knowledge,
information, and collaboration related to CED in Canada. Check out
"What's New" for an excellent calendar of upcoming events.
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Community Building Resource Exchange
An alliance of locally driven urban initiatives working to reduce
poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive
community initiatives (CCIs).
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2007 Communities Collaborating Institute - October 15-19
Organized by Tamarack, An Institute for Community Engagement, this retreat will bring together community leaders with some of Canada’s leading experts on collaboration and social change. In addition to workshops, renowned speakers, and a host of activities, the gathering event will launch a cluster of strategic groups devoted to training and innovation - a learning community.
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Aspen
Institute
Aspen maintains a remarkable series of research programs into the
alleviation of urban and rural poverty through strategies of community-based
development. What's more, they link that work to a sustained publishing
program.
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Western
Canada Community Futures Website
A network of 90 Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs)
across Western Canada working together to foster entrepreneurship
and community economic development in rural areas.
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Communitywealth.org
Resources, news, profiles, discussion, technical recommendations
regarding nonprofit/for-profit partnerships, cause-related marketing,
social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, and nonprofit business
ventures.
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Community
Capacity Building Initiative
A comprehensive education and training program to assist Regional
Economic Development Boards through leadership training and empowerment. Of importance to any community-based organization (new or established) wishing to improve board and staff development.
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NeighborWorks©
Network
The common site of Neighborhood Revitalization Corporation, Training
Institute, and Neighborhood Housing Services of America, and new
host of Community Development Online, the clearing house of community
and economic development information in the U.S.
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Work in NonProfits
An excellent place to post jobs, to find jobs, and to get suppliers in Canada's nonprofit and charitable sectors.
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Quint Development Corporation
This CED corporation in Saskatoon has taken a lead in housing and renovation initiatives, and in the development of home ownership co-operatives.
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Westcoast Community Enterprises
This division of the Centre for Community Enterprise has been delivering the federal Self-Employment Benefits Program in Vancouver, B.C. for nearly ten years, and has been at the forefront of efforts to customize the program to the needs of inner-city social assistance recipients.
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The
Tompkins Institute
One of Canada's oldest post-secondary centres of CED training and
research. This site also features links to the works of Dr. Greg
MacLeod, BCA Holdings (an investment vehicle for community business
and co-ops), and New View Productions, as well as a vastly expanded
selection of links for women's CED.
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Self
Employment Development Initiatives
SEDI is a nonprofit, charitable organization that promotes self-employment
and savings as viable roads to self-sufficiency for poor, unemployed,
and underemployed Canadians.
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Council for the Advancement of Native Economic Developers (CANDO)
A national, Aboriginally-controlled organization devoted to training, education, and networking for economic development professionals in Canada's First Nation, Metis, and Inuit communities.
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Community Action - Canada's Community Service Reporter
An independent periodical, on line and in print (monthly), on social policies and programs, especially in Canada. Includes events, funding allocations, appointments, postings, and publications.
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Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
Since 1993, CDVCA has been the trade association of the community development venture capital industry. CDVCA promotes use of venture capital to create jobs, foster entrepreneurship, and realize wealth that improves the lives and work of low-income people and communities
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National
Congress for Community Economic Development
NCCED is the leading trade association for the community-based industry
in the U.S.A., representing over 3,600 community development corporations.
Its website features timely CED sector information, publications,
and a program specific to the advancement of faith-based initiative.
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Canadian
Community Reinvestment Coalition
The CCRC advocates increased bank accountability on behalf of a
membership of over 100 small business, labour, CED, and consumer
groups, representing three million Canadians. (Website in French
and English.)
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Social
Investment Organization
A national non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement
of a socially and environmentally sustainable society through socially
responsible investment and corporate social responsibility.
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Business
Retention & Expansion
BR&E is a program of community-led research, liaison, and visitation
with local businesses by means of which faltering enterprises can
be assisted and closures can be anticipated or averted.
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Enterprise
Facilitation
This site offers a practitioner's-eye view of the Sirolli technique
for igniting local entrepreneurship and relates it to comprehensive,
community-controlled initiatives.
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Samuel
& Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation
Under the new cycle of its Urban Issues Program, this Foundation
will award up to $30,000 a year for a period of up to three years
to projects that unite urban conservation with community development,
to protect and enhance life inside city neighbourhoods. Follow this
link to the funding guidelines.
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Entrewomen
This website advances the commercial capacity and interconnection
of rural women with a Marketplace, Discussion Forum, Resources,
and Training Opportunities.
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Women's Enterprise Centre
WEC encourages and promotes entrepreneurship and business development to women in British Columbia through loans, financial assistance, and a complete range of business services.
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Business
for Social Responsibility
A very useful site for tracking world-wide developments in corporate
social responsibility. BSR is a membership organization for companies
that wish to advance commercial success while demonstrating respect
for ethical values, people, communities, and the environment. BSR
Education Fund, a research organization, offers on-line reports
and resources on subjects that include social auditing, CED, others.
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Detour's UrbanSource
A project of Moving the Economy (a sustainable transport partnership), Detour's UrbanSource is an on-line, nonprofit bookstore that has on offer over 300 books, magazines, videos, and CDs concerning sustainable transportation, urban planning, climate change, and other issues of critical importance in this time of Peak Oil.
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Sustainable
Development Information System
Environment Canada's one-window access to sustainable development:
federal programs, strategies, products; international conventions,
protocols; links to private sector expertise. (In French and English.)
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International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Includes The SD Gateway (integrating on-line information from leading
sustainable development institutes) and Linkages (a multi-media
resource for environment and development policy-makers).
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Be Your Own Boss
The gateway to self-employment in the Vancouver area, offering information as to the many programs offering training, emotional, and financial support to entrepreneurs, whether the business is "mega," "micro," or in between.
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Rural
and Small Town Programme
A very creative post-secondary CED training and research program
affiliated with Mount Allison University, New Brunswick.
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Sustainable Communities
The Centre for Sustainable Community Development, an institutional arm of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby,
British Columbia, offers a non-credit certificate program for CED
professionals, in addition to its undergrad CED certificate and
post-baccalaureate programs.
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Pratt
Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED)
PICCED is the oldest university-based advocacy planning organization
in the U.S.
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Southern New Hampshire University CED Programs
SNHU is the most senior of North America's post-secondary CED training providers, now with both Masters- (including its National Weekend program, professional training institutes, and international program) and Doctoral-level accreditation.
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Ontario
Association of Community Futures Development Corporations
Community-based organizations rebuilding local economies through
job creation, planning, technical assistance and resources.
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Connexions On-Line
Connexions links those working for social change with each other, with information and ideas, and with the general public. Check out this site for resources and organizations that foster democracy, economic justice, environmental responsibility, civil liberties, and community.
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Woodstock
Institute
A Chicago nonprofit working locally and nationally to promote community
reinvestment and economic development in lower-income and minority
communities.
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CharityJobSearch.com
Find work in charities, nonprofits, healthcare, and social services organizations across Canada. There's also resources to help with your job search and advance your career.
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The KLOG Centre
The Kanata Learning Opportunities Growth (KLOG) Centre offers for free download in PDF Jobs Are Not The Answer … But Then What Is? (value US$19.95). This book shows how to help communities get thinking, practically yet creatively, about the socio-economic issues before them.
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The Centre for Creative Communities
This nonprofit research organization combats social apathy and promotes civic engagement by fostering dialogue between the community, public, and corporate sectors.
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Neighborhood Planning
Based on a course at Virginia Tech University, this website introduces, topic by topic, a multidisciplinary approach to neighbourhood planning with the central theme of building social capital. Stay tuned as the authors, Louis Columbo and Ken Balitzer, add to the current menu, "Action Strategies for Community Development" (planning models), "Planned Growth Strategy" (metropolitan forces affecting neighborhoods), and "Neighborhood Place and Community" (physical environment of neighborhoods).
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Opportunities Waterloo Region
A 6-year campaign to help families in the Waterloo region to
get out of poverty. The agents are a coalition
of community-based organizations, businesses, and public sector
partners.
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Foundation for Rural Living
An electronic infrastructure and techical assistance (including a Rural Development Officer program) to provide rural communities and agencies with knowledge, training, and support to increase local investment and volunteerism.
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Taiga Institute for Land, Culture & Economy
Specialists in boreal and sub-boreal natural resource stewardship and development and the mapping of indigenous ecological knowledge.
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Atlantic CED Institute
One of the pre-eminent providers of CED technical assistance, education, and research on Canada's eastern seaboard, with particular expertise in development finance.
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Grassroots
Economic Organizing Newsletter (GEO)
GEO is a bimonthly publication dedicated to reporting on community-based
economies and their development through local cooperative action.
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Mennonite
Central Committee (Canada)
Comprehensive listing of the principles and practice of one of the
most prominent Christian development and social justice organizations.
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MCC
Employment Development
A Calgary, Alberta Community Economic Development Organization that
partners with the underemployed to develop their productive futures.
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CharityVillage
An exceptionally well-organized body of information for Canadian
nonprofits - organizations, jobs, resources, suppliers, discussion
groups, events, and news.
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One
World Online
200 global justice organizations under one roof.
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