Making Waves: Canada’s Community Economic Development Magazine

Posted by on June 18, 2007

The latest edition of making waves offers feature articles on community development finance in the U.S.A. and in Canada. At which point does the politics of community development finance cross the line from “strategy” to “disease”?

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Apologies for cross-postings

CONTENTS

Building Sustainable Financial Co-Operatives
In the U.S., community development credit unions build the savings of disenfranchised populations into capital pools that can be recycled locally and affordably, according to residents’ priorities. Their numbers and assets are now under threat, and not just from an unfriendly Republican administration.

The Price of Bank Unaccountability
The Harper government may seem “new,” but its policies with regard to bank accountability are 30 years behind those to the south. In its legislation the U.S. recognizes banking services to be essential to the economic health of citizens, businesses, communities, and to the whole economy. Why can’t Canada?

CreateAction
To gain work experience in community economic development, Canadian students have had to leave the country. Not any more. CreateAction is a unique internship program that matches the need of graduates for hands-on experience with the need of CED organizations for hands-on capacity.

The Knowledge Bottleneck
In community economic development, the connection between theory and practice is extremely important. So why do we find CED analysis so often written in ways that exclude the people engaged in CED projects and strategies?

The Power of Small
The Canadian CED Network is growing and fast, as the recent National CED Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland demonstrated. The next part is tougher still: to leverage political influence and results from its new-found size, while preserving some of the power so peculiar to the Small.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada’s CED Magazine
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