2006 National Conference on CED and the Social Economy
Leaf, Tree, Forest: Rooting Development in Community
March 15-18, Vancouver, British Columbia
The 2006 National Conference on CED and the Social Economy drew 641 participants from every province and territory as well as 11 countries for dozens of workshops, plenary sessions, keynote addresses, site visits, networking and fun! Organized by the Canadian CED Network and the BC/Yukon CED Network, the 2006 National Conference welcomed a wide diversity of participants and made an important contribution towards Rooting Development in Community.
Over 60 workshop and plenary presentations were offered at the 2006 National Conference on CED and the Social Economy. See the full program.
Wednesday March 15
Conference Opening Gala
• David LePage, Program Manager- Enterprising Non-Profits Program, Vancity
• Cathy Harrington, President, Canadian CED Network
• CCEDNet Retrospective
Presented by: Vicki Austad, Chair, BC-Yukon CED Network and Ethel Cote, CCEDNet Board of Directors
• Squamish Nation Aboriginal Blessers (Squamish Nation Network)
• Caroline Lachance, CCEDNet Membership Committee
• Marie Prebushewski, CCEDNet Membership Committee
• Solidarity Notes Labour Choir
Thursday March 16
Conference Opening Plenary: Sustainability & CED
Dr. John Helliwell Professor Emeritus of Economics, UBC (PDF)
Dr. Judith Sayers Chief, Hupacasath First Nation
Marcelle Fafard-Godbout Carrefour d'immigration rurale (PDF)
MORNING SESSIONS
• W-179 CURRENT CED AND SOCIAL ECONOMY POLICY ISSUES (Interpretation)
Presenters: David LePage, Chair, CCEDNet Policy Council (PDF); Eric Leviten-Reid, CCEDNet Human Development Committee; Peter Hough, CCEDNet Finance Development Committee
• W-087 DEFINING SUCCESS FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN VANCOUVER: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY
Presenters: Elizabeth Lougheed Green, Potluck Café Society; Jane O'Connor, Consumer Run Business, Canadian Mental Health Association
• W-164 ABORIGINAL YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP & THE JOBWORKS YOUTH BUILDERS PROGRAM
Presenters: Robert Loiselle, JobWORKS Youth Builders; Elliot Mason, JobWORKS Youth Builders
• W-135 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS: THE VALUE OF INVESTMENT IN FOLLOW-UP
Presenters: Andrew Macdonald, Eva's Phoenix; Ola Nuga, Eva's Phoenix
• W-069 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 101
Presenters: Dr. Mark Roseland, Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University; David Hendrickson, Sean Connelly, Chris Lindberg, Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University
• W-109 SOLIDARITY FINANCING IN QUÉBEC (Interpretation) (PDF)
Presenters: Stéphane Chabot, Réseau d'investissement social du Québec (RISQ); Lucie Villeneuve, Réseau québécois du crédit communautaire
• W-020 SOLIDARITY JOBS PROJECT (PDF) (Interpretation)
Presenter: Diane Bissonnette and Christian Daigneault, COMSEP
• W-118 SOCIAL INCLUSION AND CED: EFFECTIVE PRACTICES FOR COMPREHENSIVE OUTCOMES
Presenters: Regional Coordinators (PDF), Advisory Committee members, The Canadian CED Network and research participants
• W-107 LA PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE DES JEUNES DANS LE DÉC EN OUTAOUAIS (French)
Présentateurs : Christian Clément Grandir en Ville - Commission jeunesse de la Ville de Gatineau et Benoît Gauthier, Table jeunesse Outaouais
• W-175 L'EFFET CATALYSEUR D'UN ÉVÉNEMENT POPULAIRE EN MILIEU MINORITAIRE (French)
Présentatrice : Nicole Langlois, L'Association des francophones de Nanaimo
• W-145 CED: MEANING AND OPPORTUNITY
Presenters: Stewart Perry and Michelle Colussi, Centre for Community Enterprise (CCE)
• W-093 TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR GROWING A LOCAL FOOD ECONOMY
Presenters: Herb Barbolet and Christiana Miewald, Centre for Sustainable Community Development
• W-201 IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE REALITIES CREATE THE FIRST GENERATION OF SOCIAL CO-OPERATIVES IN WESTERN CANADA: STRUGGLING FOR PEACE & ECONOMIC SECURITY IN A NEW COUNTRY
Presenters: Yvonne Chiu, Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative, Gulalai Habib, Immigrant Services Society of BC (PDF)
• W-206 PATHWAYS TO LARGE SCALE IMPACT
Presenters: Vickie Cammack and Al Etmanski, PLAN Institute for Citizenship and Disability and Katharine Pearson, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
• W-072 CED WITH ABORIGINAL STREET GANG MEMBERS
Presenters: Lawrence Deane and Larry Morrissette, Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin
• W-033 INVESTING IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES - VALUE FOR MONEY
Presenters: Irene Gannitsos, Vancity Community Foundation; Derek Gent, Vancity Capital Corporation
• W-158 PUT YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: COMMUNITY-DRIVEN TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS
Presenters: Karun Koernig, Environmental Youth Alliance; Robyn Spencer, Environmental Youth Alliance
• W-114 EMERGING LEADERS & YOUTH CED: DIALOGUE ON BEST PRACTICES (Interpretation)
Presenters: Victoria Morris and Farrar Brodhead, Emerging Leaders, Canadian CED Network
• W-198 MEASURING RESULTS THAT MATTER: EVALUATING CED IMPACTS (Interpretation)
Presenters: Dr. Ted Jackson and Gail Zboch, CEDTAP (PDF)
• W-086 BUILDING COMMUNITY MEANS BUILDING PEOPLE (PDF part 1 - PDF part 2)
Presenters: Deirdre Pickerell, Life Strategies Ltd. and BC Career Information Partnership; Vicki Austad, New Westminster Community Development Society
• W-103 APPRENDRE LE DÉC ENSEMBLE @ DISTANCE (French)
Présentateurs : Alain Meunier, Coopérative de consultation en développement La Clé; Aubrey Cormier, RDÉE Canada
• W-180 CCEDNET POLICY FRAMEWORK RENEWAL: BACKGROUND AND RESULTS TO DATE (Interpretation)
Presenter: Dal Brodhead, New Economy Development Group
• W-016 L'IMPLICATION MUNICIPALE DANS LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES COLLECTIVITÉS RURALES ÉLOIGNÉES (French)
Présentateur : Pascal Billard, SOL-AIR Consultants Inc.
• W-184 THE ART OF ADVOCACY (PDF)
Presenter: Diana Jedig, Ontario Association of Community Futures Development Corporations
• W-183 CO-OPS - THE WORKHORSE OF THE CED MOVEMENT
Presenter: Lynne Markell, Canadian Co-operative Association; Denyse Guy, Ontario Co-operative Association
• W-126 K'YUUKSXW -- A MOBILIZATION AND ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Presenters: Doug Donaldson and Anne Docherty, Storytellers' Foundation
CRACKER BARREL PRESENTATIONS
• SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS IN ACTION: AN INNOVATIVE CO-OP MODEL FOR BUSINESS OWNERSHIP BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Presenters: Peter Ackie, Common Ground Co-operative; Cathy Lang, C. Lang Consulting
• BUILDING A MOVEMENT: MULTISECTORAL COLLABORATION FOR A LIVING WAGE
Presenters: Jessica Leech, Vibrant Communities Calgary; Jenny Saarinen, MCC Employment Development
• CROSSING BORDERS: A DIALOGUE ON YOUTH AND SOLIDARITY IN CED
Presenters: Melanie Dowler, Building Opportunities with Business; Farrar Brodhead, Canadian CED Network
• TECHNOLOGY AND CED
Presenters: Marie Prebushewski, Thickwood Hill Business & Learning Network; Cherylynn Walters, Marieval Enterprise Center
• BUILDING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Presenter: Scott Graham, Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
• VALUES, SELF-AWARENESS & COMMITMENT; LENNOX ISLAND FIRST NATION'S APPROACH TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Presenters: Matt McGuire and Madlene Sark, Lennox Island First Nation
• USING THE GENUINE PROGRESS INDEX CONCEPT TO STIMULATE AND MEASURE THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
Presenters: Vincent Verlaan, Genuine Progress Index - Pacific Society; Jim Sands, Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
• RE-BUILDING RURAL COMMUNITY
Presenter: Jeanne Arnold and Andrea Berry, Falls Brook Centre
Friday March 17
MORNING SESSIONS
• W-181 SOCIAL ECONOMY UPDATE (Interpretation)
Presenters: Federal government staff and members of the National Social Economy Roundtable
• W-102 ARISE - RELEASING COMMUNITY CAPACITY, PROMOTING CROSS-SECTORAL PARTNERSHIPS, & SPAWNING INNOVATION THROUGH SOCIAL ENTERPRISE HYBRIDS
Presenters: Stacey Corriveau, Community Futures South Fraser / FV Centre for Social Enterprise; Sid Gould, Sandstorm Creative Glass Works Studio
• W-160 FROM DREAM TO REALITY: ABORIGINAL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Presenters: Penny Kerrigan Irons, Aboriginal Mother Centre Society and Danielle Levine, Aboriginal Mothers Knitting Factory
• W-057 INVOLVING YOUTH IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Presenters: Shawna Wallace, Alberta Rural Youth Council and the National Rural Youth Network
• W-141 BRIDGING THE DIVIDES: LESSONS LEARNED
Presenters: Carol Madsen, Bridging the Divides, SFU, Doug Larsen, North Island College and Kelvin Saldern, Greater Trail Community Skills Centre
• W-056 SITE CONTROL FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM NELSON AND VICTORIA, BC
Presenters: Dr. Mark Roseland, Sean Connelly, David Hendrickson and Chris Lindberg, Centre for Sustainable Community Development, SFU
• W-185 NORTH-SOUTH PARTNERSHIPS: AN INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO SUPPORTING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA AND AROUND THE WORLD (Interpretation) (PDF), (PDF), (PDF)
Presenters: Suman Khanal, Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Co-operative Unions (NEFSCUN); Sandrine Viel, Auberge l'Autre Jardin, Québec
• W-173 CERCLE D'APPRENTISSAGE : APPROCHE APPRÉCIATIVE (French)
Présentatrice : Ethel Côté, L'Art du développement
• W-200 L'ART DE LA REPRÉSENTATION (French)
Présentateurs : Monique Beaudoin, Réseau canadien de DÉC et Louis Grenier
• W-039 COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM ECONOMICS 101 (PDF)
Presenters: Sandra Mark and Frank Moreland, Edible Strategies Enterprises, Ltd.
• W-146 USING THE DEVELOPMENT WHEEL TO ASSESS & STRENGTHEN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Michelle Colussi, Mike Lewis, Centre for Community Enterprise (CCE)
• W-176 CED AND SOCIAL ECONOMY: RESULTS FROM TWO COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ALLIANCE PROJECTS (Interpretation)
Presenters: Garry Loewen, Manitoba Research Alliance on CED and the New Economy (PDF); Jean-Marc Fontan, Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
• W-182 MEMBER ENGAGEMENT ON THE POLICY FRAMEWORK RENEWAL (Interpretation)
Presenters: Vicki Austad, New Westminster Community Development Society, Shauna MacKinnon, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,
Marcia Tait, Community Services, City of Edmonton
• W-171 AUTHENTIC CAPACITY BUILDING AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
Presenters: Catherine Ludgate and Pierre Pelletier, IMPACS
• W-052 CED ON THE STREET: EXPERIENCES WITH INNER-CITY COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (PDF)
Presenters: Corrina Craig and Nathan Popp, Open Door; Marcus Oppenheimer, Open Door/Inner-City Aboriginal Society
• W-162 ADVENTURES IN YOUTH ENGAGEMENT: THE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR EXPERIENCE
Presenters: Alex Chernoff,Futures in Newfoundland and Labrador's Youth (FINALY!); Roseanne Leonard, Youth Ventures
• W-023 COMMUNITY FORESTRY: LOCAL LAND, LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS
Presenters: Susan Mulkey, BC Community Forest Association (BCCFA); Ramona Faust, Director, BC Community Forest Association (BCCFA)
• W-178 NATIONAL RESEARCH ON THE SOCIAL ECONOMY: SETTING THE STAGE (Interpretation) (PDF), (PDF), (PDF), (PDF)
Presenters: Ian MacPherson, BC Institute for Co-operative Studies; Rupert Downing, Canadian CED Network
• W-186 BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT: AFTER DAKAR, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? (Interpretation)
Moderator: Sylvain Matte, CECI-Uniterra. Presenters: Mike Lewis, Centre for Community Enterprise; Rosa Candia, CUSO
• W-144 BUILDING COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AND THE VALUE OF CROSS-SECTORAL COLLABORATION
Presenters: Susannah Cameron, Canadian Community Investment Network Co-op; Eugene Ellmen, Social Investment Organization
• W-203 LA CULTURE COMME MOTEUR DE DÉVELOPPEMENT (French)
Présentateurs: Gilles Gagné, Gilles Gagné consultant; Nancy Neamtan, Chantier de l'économie sociale
• W-152 COMMUNITY VITALITY INITIATIVE - ASSESSMENT & ACTION IN QUÉBEC COMMUNITIES
Presenters: Mike Stolte, Executive Director, Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership; Grant Myers, Community Table Secretariat
• W-202 CHARITABLE STATUS FOR COMMANITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS (PDF)
Presenters: Laird Hunter, Worton Hunter and Callaghan Barristers and Solicitors; Peter Hough, Canadian Worker Coop Federation & CCEDNet Finance Development Committee
• W-036 ADVENTURES IN URBAN CED - REVITALIZATION WITHOUT DISPLACEMENT
Presenter: Iqbal Alam, Building Opportunities with Business
• W-205 INCLUSION SOCIALE ET DÉC : DES PRATIQUES EFFICACES POUR DES RÉSULTATS GLOBAUX (French)
Présentateurs: Les coordonnateurs régionaux, Réseau canadien de DÉC; les membres du comité consultatif et les participants au projet de recherche
