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Take it to the Bank: How Land Banks are Strengthening America's Neighbourhoods

Organization: 
Center for Community Progress
Author: 
Payton Heins and Tarik Abdelazim

For those who work on combating growing numbers of problem properties, and who are looking to expand the available toolbox of options, the buzz these days is all about land banks.

Year: 
2014
Format: 
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Housing & Real Estate
Policy Development & Advocacy
Regional Development
Stories and Experiences
Urban Development
Source: 
Weblink

Building a Community Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience

Author: 
Jack Quarter & Paul Wilkinson

This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island.

Year: 
1996
Format: 
Book
Case study
Categories: 
Co-operatives
Rural CED
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Stories and Experiences
Source: 
Org
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Balancing Purpose and Profit: Legal mechanisms to lock in social mission for “profit with purpose” businesses across the G8

Organization: 
Orrick, UnLtd, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Across the world, attitudes are changing. Old certainties about tightly defined roles for government, civil society and business are dissolving. Charities and non-profits are becoming more business-like, and business is looking ever more to delivering sustainable value.

Year: 
2014
Format: 
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Co-operatives
International CED
Policy Development & Advocacy
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
Weblink
Org

Toward an Open Co-operativism: A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons

Author: 
Pat Conaty and David Bollier

A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

Year: 
2014
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Co-operatives
Entrepreneurship & Business Development
Finance
Partnership Building
Planning and Evaluation
Policy Development & Advocacy
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
Weblink

Community Development in Europe: Towards a Common Framework and Understanding

Organization: 
Prepared by the European Community Development Network for the European Commission

Combined European Bureau for Social Development was founded in Swansea 1990. The aim was to facilitate joint projects and applications in the European context and to organize more systematic exchanges between national community work organizations and to promote community development on a European level.

Year: 
2014
Format: 
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
International CED
Stories and Experiences
Source: 
Weblink

How Community Groups Make Life Better: Improving Local Economies

Organization: 
Community Development Foundation

This information sheet is part of the Tailor-Made series, which aims to share evidence about the difference the community sector makes to our lives.

Year: 
2014
Format: 
Document
Research report
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Co-operatives
Job Training
Entrepreneurship & Business Development
Policy Development & Advocacy
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
Weblink
Org

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