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Building a Community Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience
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.
Balancing Purpose and Profit: Legal mechanisms to lock in social mission for “profit with purpose” businesses across the G8
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.
Toward an Open Co-operativism: A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons
A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014
Community Development in Europe: Towards a Common Framework and Understanding
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.
How Community Groups Make Life Better: Improving Local Economies
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.