New Edition: Canada’s Community Economic Development magazine

Posted by on October 24, 2003

[posted from Build-Com listserv]

Please find below a summary of articles published in the Autumn 2003 edition of “Making Waves: Canada’s Community Economic Development Magazine.” For more information, including sample articles from this and past editions, visit http://www.cedworks.com and select “Making Waves” on the menu bar.

(Note that all the Qu?bec coverage is also available in its original French.)

Apologies for cross-postings.

CONTENTS

GO GLOCAL
If local CED initiatives are ultimately to succeed, we must make them part of far more extensive value chains involving other movements for social and economic change.

SECTORAL STRATEGIES IN CED
Sherman Kreiner (Crocus Investment Fund) explains how social entrepreneurs, following the example of Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia), can and must buck CED convention and create businesses that raise the bar in select industrial sectors.

REVOLUTION WITHIN A REVOLUTION
Qu?bec’s decade of experimentation with health care and social service co-operatives has given rise to a reconfiguration of the actors in the health system. The old 2-actor system has given way to a 3-actor system, as citizens take action through the structure of the solidarity co-op or the nonprofit community-based organization.

THE POWER OF NETWORKING
Here’s a story of uncommon success – the rise of funeral co-operatives in Qu?bec and the retreat of their multinational competitors, despite the enormous potential this market holds in the coming 40 years. An accompanying article describes the life and times of a funeral co-op in a small town in Qu?bec’s Eastern Townships.

WHAT’S “IN STORE”
The size, nature, and scope of CED in Canada is profiled on the basis of recent research by the Canadian CED Network (CCEDNet).

CULTIVATING A COMMUNITY
In Winnipeg, Growing Prospects helps at-risk youth get back on the rails and local restaurateurs to get fresh herbs year-round.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada’s CED Magazine
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