Communities are increasingly looking for new sources of capital and ways to unlock existing ones so that they can be put toward community needs, like affordable housing, renewable energy, food system development, job creation and local business development and more.
This case study was requested by CEDEC—the Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation—as part of its role in helping communities throughout Quebec to identify, assess, and prepare to act on social, cultural, and economic development opportunities.
This briefing provides a summary of Mainstreaming Community Economic Development and how community groups can use the approach in their work.
Why is Mainstreaming Community Economic Development important?
Mainstreaming community economic development is about encouraging economic development to develop from within. About understanding and building upon an area’s existing strengths so that it can flourish by maximising the local economic and social benefits for all.
This is about localising prosperity for everyone – by building upon an area’s existing strengths so that it can develop from within, maximising the local economic and social benefits for all. It is based on a virtuous circle of local empowerment, thriving local business and wellbeing:
Posted: July 29, 2014
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