Posted: June 4, 2021
As we approach our 2021 Annual General Meeting, we are looking back on 2020.
How do we tell the story of such a year? How do we honour the pain and grief experienced the world over, while at the same time celebrating the solidarity, mutual aid, and resilience that were born from the turmoil? How do we leverage our collective power to protect and nurture CCEDNet members, communities, and life itself -- all while caring for ourselves?
Posted: May 3, 2021
Until now, there has never been an economic impact study on the innovative Nova Scotia Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF) tax credit program to assess its impact in creating jobs and building local economies. Beginning last September, CCEDNet has been partnering with the Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick (CECNB) and the BC Community Impact Investment Coalition on a Pan-Canadian Community Investment Organization Project that has included this landmark study.
Despite Canada’s legacy of co-operativism, Eurocentrism dominates thinking in the Canadian coop movement.
A crowdsourced guide of organizations whose work aligns with the principles of a Just Recovery from COVID-19. As a living document on a google sheet, the archived portion was created and uploaded into the CCEDNet toolbox on March 19, 2021.
SSE organizations are more open to exchange between the production system and the local community due to their participatory governance structures and their attention toward social integration - in short, to their ability to recognize the socially embedded nature of economic action.
