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Posted: Wed July 6 2016
Carol Anne Hilton on the concept she invented to pull Canada into a better future.
Carol Anne Hilton wants Canadians to add a new word to their dictionary: Indigenomics.
Definition: The practice of bringing an Indigenous perspective to economic and social development.
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Posted: Mon June 27 2016
Social enterprises fill an important gap in Manitoba’s economy for those struggling to enter the workforce. The provincial government has seen the value of investing in social enterprises through funding training and procuring housing retrofit services. This in combination with financing from the...
Posted: Mon June 20 2016
The new provincial government has subtitled its budget documents with the phrase “Correcting the Course” and it has repeatedly stated its goal of making Manitoba the “Most Improved Province.” What will this new course mean for those working to create economic opportunities and improve social...
Posted: Fri June 10 2016
Communities need a sympathetic outsider who encourages them, takes the heat out of things, listens and asks questions. Members of a community are often so taken up in the immediate that they lose sight of the whole. They need an outsider to ask them their vision, their work with...
Posted: Fri May 27 2016
Two graduates of this year's SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development wanted to share some of their CED learnings from the program to the people in their communities.
Amy Quarry and Diandra Oliver, both accomplished CED practitioners in their communities of Quesnel and Prince...
Posted: Fri May 27 2016
Communities are at the heart of what CCEDNet peeps do. So it shouldn't be a surprise that when you put 230 community champions together over three days, you get one heck of a community.
Hosted by CCEDNet member CEDEC, ECONOUS2016 was the first national CED conference in several years,...
Posted: Fri May 27 2016
May 2-6 was the final week of the 2015/2016 SFU CED program and we ended with a bang!
Students pitched their social impact ideas for a total prize pool of $20,000 for the Social Innovation Challenge, an exciting part of the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic...
Posted: Fri April 15 2016
Elections are noisy and cluttered affairs that can make it difficult for some of the most promising, Manitoba-made policy innovations to get the attention they deserve. One of these policies is the use of day-to-day government purchasing to provide job and training opportunities for people with...
Posted: Thu March 31 2016
In 2015, Neighbourhoods Alive! (NA!) celebrated its fifteenth year of operation. After 15 years of operation, it might be a fair question to ask “What has been the impact of NA!, to date?”, and whether NA! communities are being revitalized. NA! contracted independent Community Impact Evaluations...
Posted: Thu March 17 2016
Systems thinking can seem complex and inaccessible but even the smallest group of people working towards change can learn from it. Kate Swade sets out five ways to use it.
Google ‘systems change’ and you get almost 1.5bn results. Do the same with ‘systems thinking’ and you get almost 23...
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