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Posted: Wed June 18 2014
A fifteenth anniversary might be a good time to reflect on the methods and assumptions of a movement like community economic development – especially for urban communities. When we first started CCEDNet fifteen years ago, we believed that by using CED principles and strategies we could intervene...
Posted: Wed June 11 2014
You may have seen from some of our 15th anniversary blog posts that the concept and practice of community economic development originated in the United States.
Although the tools and strategies for creating inclusive and sustainable communities are constantly evolving differently in...
Posted: Tue June 10 2014
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series. Click here to read the first in this series.
Notes from 2002: Contemplating the Future
CCE/CCCR’s history has been one of organizing, networking, leveraging and then consolidating gains, and, at times, making some unfortunate mistakes....
Posted: Tue June 10 2014
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series. Click here to read the first in this series.
Building the Base continued...
A strategic addition to this agenda came into play in 1991. The National Welfare Grants (NWG) program announced a competition to fund CED related research as one...
Posted: Tue June 10 2014
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series. Click here to read the first in this series.
Building the Base
By mid-1988 I was in a position to take more time to extend our networking. Connections and work relationships with people like Dal, Nancy and Bill became the base...
Posted: Tue June 10 2014
What is set out below are personal notes extracted from a much longer reflection on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Community Enterprise (which later became the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal) mostly written in 2002. While only snippets are included here, they do set...
Posted: Fri June 6 2014
You work for a community development organization that's facing a somewhat technical problem but with limited budget. You really need that new logo/HR advice/strategic plan. What do you do?Well, if you live here in Winnipeg, you contact Spark, where we work with you to find the right professional...
Posted: Mon June 2 2014
From Rapping in buses in Winnipeg, to Aboriginal Theatre in Saskatoon, to Folk Music in St. John's, the Canadian CED Network has embraced the true spirit and culture of community in Canada. I am so proud of being part of a civil society organization that linked up the very best of our community...
Posted: Tue May 27 2014
Garry Loewen, in his reflections, noted that there was initially a sense that there was a little too much testosterone in the beginnings of CCEDNet. He did not report (perhaps out of a sense of propriety) one example that I always chuckle about.
We were in one of the first meetings and...
Posted: Tue May 20 2014
CCEDNet had several starts. Mike Lewis on several occasions brought us together. Once with the Americans. They started an association - we did not.
About 17 years ago today, I was eating Vietnamese food with Mike Lewis and Victor Krahn, a staff member from the CED organization I led then...
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