CED Videos
The Inclusive Economy: Stories of CED in Manitoba
From the Great Northern Plan to the Neechi Principles, community economic development has been a strategy used in Manitoba over the past 4 decades to "build an economy that generates a society that's for people." Check out this video for stories of CED in Winnipeg.
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CED News
Join a Peer Coaching Group to Boost Your Impact
We are piloting a peer-to-peer coaching project to bring independent CED practitioners together so that they can help each other to thrive in their important work. Each group will bring together six people who will all have similar levels of experience. Let us know if you're interested in participating!
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CED in the Manitoba 2018 Budget 
Overall, the budget does not include any drastic spending changes for our member’s priorities but also doesn’t show investment or prioritization of our interests. There are small increases in priority areas, as well as decreases. The following analysis breaks down Budget 2018 by our member-led priority areas.
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Resource Database Released with Social Enterprise Survey Study of Nova Scotia
Since the Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia and Common Good Solutions (CGS) co-released the Social Enterprise Sector Strategy in April 2017, CGS has been collecting and analyzing data and authoring a report, Mapping the Social Shift, that captures the promise the social enterprise sector holds for businesses pursuing positive community impact as well as profit.
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Storytelling Audit of the Canadian CED Network
This year the Canadian CED Network will be working with a qualified communications specialists for a storytelling audit of external communications, followed by a year-end evaluation. The storytelling audit will seek to answer "how well are we telling stories relevant to our work and where are real opportunities for improvement?"
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CCEDNet 2018 Call for Resolutions and Board Nominations
The Canadian CED Network’s annual general meeting (AGM) is being held on June 14th online.
All resolutions and board nominations must be submitted no later than April 18, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.
Submit a resolution
Submit a board nomination
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CED Blogs
How the social procurement movement enhances nonprofit sector revenue and impact
Blog by David LePage
Social procurement (often referred to as social purchasing) is essentially buying contracts for goods and services from social enterprises, with the intention of making a positive social impact, be it job creation for a historically disadvantaged community, or reducing carbon emissions. It means leveraging money that will already be spent on contracts by governments, private companies or nonprofits to also further a social good. This practice is extremely important for opening up social enterprise market opportunities....
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"In it for the Long Haul" — Community-Based Participatory Research Requires Nurturing Trusting Relationships
Blog by Shauna Mackinnon
Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment and Mobilization is a collection of stories about the process of doing research side-by-side with communities. It deals with research methods, but it isn't a typical research methods text. Throughout the book the authors describe the impetus for their research, how it came to be implemented, and how communities and policy advocates are using it to effect change...
Do you have an interesting idea for a blog post? We're interested in publishing relevant CED lessons and successes. Contact us today!
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CED Resources
People Power: Findings from the Commission on the Future of Localism
 Reinvigorating localism requires a fundamentally different conception of power which puts people and communities at the starting point. Communities are already powerful – often far more than people recognise – but this power can lie latent, untapped, or simply ignored. People Power explores what the sources of community power are and what blocks community power and then lays out the evidence base for how to strengthen community power.
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Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions
Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives around a common operating frame: that the global fight to save the planet—to conserve and restore our natural resources to be life-sustaining—must fully engage community residents and must change the larger economy to be sustainable, democratic, and just. Taken together, the contributions in this book show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like, and will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.
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