In this issue
Opportunities
$1,000 Community Economic Development Bursary
Sustainable Energy Association director's positions
News from the Canadian CED Network
Gathering Steam: Canadian leaders call for a People-Centred Economy
2010 People-centred Economy Summit online videos
News of the Solidarity Economy Movement
Manitoba partnership builds the green collar economy
From the UK: Public sector contractors may require a 'social clause'
Upcoming Events
enp Workshops
Columbia Basin Trust Symposium
SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development
Gaining Ground Summit
Canadian Worker Co-operative Conference
Knowledge Centre
New Book! Humanizing the Economy
UVic launches new Masters in Community Development
Fellowships from the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy
Coming Soon: i4. The e-journal to inspire, innovate, incite and invent
OPPORTUNITIES
Apply Now: $1,000 bursary for SFU's Community Economic Development Certificate
Deadline for applications is July 30, 2010
The Canadian CED Network, together with Coast Capital Savings and the Vancity Community Foundation, are pleased to announce $1,000 bursaries are now available for up to ten staff, volunteers and activists of community-based and more-than-profit organizations to enroll in Simon Fraser University's Certificate Program for Community Economic Development.
Click here for information about applying.
Wanted: Leaders to help create BC's sustainable energy future
The BC Sustainable Energy Association is recruiting directors. Check it out - here.
NEWS FROM THE CANADIAN CED NETWORK
Gathering steam: Canadian leaders call for a People-Centered Economy
The social and solidarity economy movement in Canada just got a lot more organized. National, regional and provincial organizations and networks involved in co-operatives, social enterprises, fair-trade and community-economic development gathered June 1 in Ottawa to hammer out a common agenda and speak with one strong, clear voice.
Click here to view the Declaration of the 2010 Summit on a People-Centered Economy.
Couldn't attend the Summit? View the keynote speaches and addresses from elected officials online
Click here to see summit videos including addresses from Minister Blackburn, Nancy Neamtan, Raj Patel, Michael Ignatieff, Ken Delaney, and Michael Peck.
NEWS OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY MOVEMENT
Manitoba partnership builds the green collar economy
Several provincial departments, Manitoba Hydro, and two community-based organizations: BUILD in Winnipeg and BEEP in Brandon joined forces to ensure benefits of the green economy are shared by people who are traditionally excluded from economic development efforts.
The initiative retrofits existing public housing and other public and private buildings. BUILD hires and trains inner-city people, most of whom have had involvement with the criminal justice system. BUILD purchases much of their supplies from a small inner-city hardware co-operative. BEEP trains people with limited experience primarily to energy retrofit existing buildings. Read more at www.warmupwinnipeg.ca
UK private members bill would require public sector contracts to include 'social clause'
This private member's bill, called the Social Enterprise and Social Value Bill would require all public sector contracts to carry a 'social clause', asking bidders what positive social outcomes their tender would create. Read more here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
enp fall Workshops Announced (September)
Click here to view the schedule. September workshops are scheduled in Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Burns Lake and Kamloops. enp Workshops are an important part of the enp program which provides matching grants to non-profits in BC who are starting or expanding a social enterprise.
Columbia Basin Trust 2010 Symposium (October 22-24)
Columbia Basin Trust invites residents of the Basin to beautiful Revelstoke on October 22-24 for the 2010 Symposium. Click here for more information
Now accepting applications for the fall cohort: SFU's Certificate Program for Community Economic Development
Creating effective champions for green, inclusive economies.
The program is comprised of eight, intensive two-day courses for sustainability leaders to explore, with peers, the models and methods for building sustainable, local, robust economies. Sustainable economies depend upon cross-sector collaboration; learning is greatly enhanced by the cohort experience. We accept only twenty students each year.
Apply now at www.sfu.ca/cscd/ced
Gaining Ground Summit (October 4 - 7)
The power of green cities to shape the future. More info at www.gaininggroundsummit.com
Canadian Worker Co-operative Conference (October 28 - 30)
Worker co-operatives from across Canada gather in Vancouver for their annual conference. Keep your eye on this site for more info: www.canadianworker.coop
KNOWLEDGE CENTRE
New book! BC author pioneers research on co-operative economies
Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future. With over 800 million members in 85 countries and a long history linking economics to social values, the co-operative movement is the most powerful grassroots movement in the world.
Humanizing the Economy is essential reading for anyone who cares about the reform of economics, globalization, and social justice.
Click here to pre-order.
UVIC launches new Masters in Community Development
University of Victoria launches new Masters program in Community Development with three streams: non-profits, co-operatives and community economic development. The program is designed for working professionals offering courses on a part-time basis through a combination of distance and summer residencies. To learn more, click here.
Fellowships available from the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy
Fellowships for academics and community members to undertake research related to co-operative and community-based economics. For information about applying, click here.
Coming Soon! BC-based company readies to publish new journal 'about crafting creative, democratic and sustainable economies in a century of unprecedented challenges.'
i4 is an ejournal about community resilience and transition in an age of climate change and peak oil.
Sign up here to be the first to read this when it goes live in Autumn 2010.