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Canadian Centre for Community Renewal

Rigorous analysis of economic development practice and policy, project and organizational profiles, networking opportunities - since 1991, making waves has been offering the straight goods on what CED and social economy practitioners in Canada are thinking and doing.

But change is in the wind! Upheaval in climate, food supply, and the price of energy are placing demands on communities that call for us to take a new approach to communications - a stronger mix of media to serve a greater range of readers with a still higher quality of journalism. So Making Waves will come to a close in 2009 ... and something new will take its place, and then some.

Sound scary? Relax! This will be fun.

In the meantime, scroll down this page to tour the table of contents of the current issue of the magazine. You can also request a trial issue. Click here to write an article for making waves, and click here to advertise.

MAKING WAVES, SPRING 2009: CONTENTS

Plenty to Celebrate

How appropriate that, as CCEDNet nears its 10th anniversary celebration, our magazine should all have played important roles in the Network's founding or development. Sherri Torjman, Michelle Colussi, Brendan Reimer, and Stewart E. Perry personify the depth of expertise, commitment, and inventiveness that CED in Canada commands. Read it now.

An Agenda for the Renewal of Our Communities

The problems facing communities today will not respond to short-term, outcome specific, and uni-dimensional action. The task of community, public, and private sector organizations is instead to establish a "shared space" of programs, investments, and enterprises that build community resilience. Read it now.

Seven Prerequisites of Transformation

The books about community transformation are many. The habits, practices, and attitudes they make key to community transformation are remarkably similar. Whatever your field of work - CED, social economy, social enterprise, co-operatism, sustainable development - these seven prerequisites are like a checklist for assessing the effectiveness of your practice. Read it now.

A CED Dating Service?

In Winnipeg, CEDTAS is now into its third year, matching up skilled, community-minded professionals with purposeful but cash-poor community organizations. The task has proven not just worthwhile, but doable ... so long as you keep a sharp eye on issues of supply, demand, and just-in-time delivery. Read it now.

Equity Capital for CED

To make a real difference, community economic development organizations (CEDOs) must own productive pieces of the local economy. Such investments require not just capital, but in-house competence and capacity. New Hampshire's Community Development Finance Authority supplied all three. Read it now.

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