Place-Based Poverty Reduction

• Summary
• Partner Organizations
• Tools You Can Use
• Final Report

Summary

The Canadian CED Network's Place Based Poverty Reduction initiative brought together four partner organizations from diverse communities to document and promote innovative locally-based CED approaches to poverty reduction and the quantitative and qualitative methodologies that assess the impact of this work on the lives of individuals and their communities. It also brought together a broader learning network of individuals and organizations across the country to inform and share this work.

The effective poverty-reduction strategies, practices and tools of CED organizations explored in the initiative are being disseminated at the Canadian CED Network's national conference, as well as through regional events and web-based tools.

Four Partner Organizations

The four partner organizations developing this work are:

• PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise (Thunder Bay, ONT)
• CED Corporation of Trois-Rivières (ÉCOF-CDEC) (Trois-Rivières, QUE)
• Trail Community Skills Centre (Trail, BC)
• Learning Enrichment Foundation (Toronto, ONT)

Tools You Can Use

This project created a toolbox of online resources for communities to use in measuring, planning, developing and implementing effective place-based poverty reduction initiatives. The specific tools added through this process are included in the inventory below and in the Canadian CED Network's online CED toolbox.

• Literature Review on Place Based Poverty Reduction
• Annotated Bibliography on Place Based Poverty Reduction
• Logic Models of four partner organizations
• Organizational profiles of partner organizations
• Impact Tracking Process Descriptions (from Report)
  • Trail CSC
  • PARO
  • LEF
  • ÉCOF
• Forms used by Trail CSC Right Stuff for data collection
  • Application for Employment & Employability Skills
  • Interview Questions -Collator
  • New Hire Check List
  • Collator Employment Agreement
  • Exit Interview
• Summary Information on two additional social enterprises using Sustainable Livelihoods and Social Return On Investment (SROI) measurements
• Personal profiles of impacted participants -"Testaments" on how lives changed from participants with each partner organization
• Additional reports from partner organizations on measuring social impacts
• Learning Enrichment Foundation -Measuring Social Impacts, CEDTAP
• PARO-Measuring Social Impacts, CEDTAP
• ÉCOF- CDÉC de Trois-Rivières: A Case Study by William Ninacs, with the collaboration of Francine Gareau , Caledon Institute, 2003
• Summary of Learning Network Teleconferences

Final Report

Click below to download the Place-Based Poverty Reduction Final Report

• Place-Based Poverty Reduction Initiative: How Community Economic Development is reducing poverty in Canada and how it could be doing more (77 pages PDF)

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