In This Issue
- Profile: The Craik Sustainable Living Project
- Canadian CED Network News
- Alberta CED News
- CED Tool - Community-Government Collaborations on Policy: A How-To Manual
- National CED News
- A Healthy, Productive Canada
- Pre-Budget Consultations 2009
- CCPA Study on IE in Canada
- Registration Open - Third Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise
- European Commission Study on Practices and Policies in the Social Enterprise Sector in Europe
- Canada Revenue Agency Guidance on Fundraising by Canadian charities
- Question about starting, growing or managing your social enterprise?
- Rural Leaders Create a Vision for Rural Canada
- Job Postings
Profile: The Craik Sustainable Living Project
In 2001, the Town of Craik and the Rural Municipality of Craik, located in south central Saskatchewan, decided that they wanted to make sustainable living a priority. Though the population consists of 408 people, they partnered together to create a long-term community-based sustainability project that could serve as an example for other communities. The project comprises four main initiatives: an Eco-Centre demonstration building; Community Outreach and Education; Community Action; and, Eco-village development.
The Eco-centre is an innovative 6000 square foot multi-purpose building that provides indoor and outdoor educational demonstration of sustainable practices. Built with recycled timbers and straw bale insulation, the building is energy efficient and incorporates renewable energy systems. Heating for the building includes solar power, a Finish-style solid fuel masonry oven, integrated solar hot water, and geo-thermal. It also features recycled rainwater and composting toilets.
The Community Outreach and Education component includes informative sessions on climate change, renewable energy technologies, ecology, sustainable living and land use and are designed for all members of the community, both young and old.
The third component of the project, Community Action, was created to educate members of the community about ways to reduce their ecological footprint. These include energy efficient appliances, retrofitting of public and private buildings, improving water management, use of alternative energy and building methods, recycling programs, improved transportation options and local food production.
Canadian CED Network News
Canadian CED Network Endorses “Dignity For All Campaign”
Dignity for All is a multi-year, multi-partner, non-partisan campaign. This campaign’s vision is to make a poverty-free and more socially secure and cohesive Canada a reality by 2020. The conviction behind this campaign is that Canadians must respect and defend the right of every person to dignity and security.Everyone has a role to play in building a poverty-free and more socially secure Canada – governments at all levels, businesses of all sizes and types, community and other civil society organizations, and individuals. The federal government, with its particular policymaking, legislative, taxation and redistributive powers, has an especially critical role. The Dignity for All Campaign is therefore aimed primarily to achieve federal action.
The campaign has three goals:
- A comprehensive, integrated federal plan for poverty elimination:
- A federal Act to eliminate poverty, promote social inclusion and strengthen social security:
- Sufficient federal revenue to invest in social security:
Participation Opportunity - Immigrant Settlement and Social Enterprise
The Immigrant Settlement and Integration through Social Enterprise (ISISE) project aims to illustrate that social enterprise is a highly useful model in assisting immigrants integrate into Canada.An essential first step for the project is surveying immigrant social enterprises and organizations that support immigrant social enterprise development, to discover practices organizations identify as central to their mission.
Survey for Organizations that Support Immigrant SE Development
Survey Deadline August 10, 2009.To complete the survey by phone, please contact Nicole Rosenow-Redhead, ISISE Project Researcher 1-877-202-2268, ext.104 or nrosenow@ccednet-rcdec.ca
Emerging Leaders in the Social Economy Research Scholarship
The Canadian Social Economy Hub is inviting proposals for research
scholarships from practitioners and students under 30 who are working
in the Social Economy. This scholarship program is intended to promote
original research by “emerging leaders” in the Social Economy that will
advance knowledge for the sector.
The Program will provide scholarships of up to $3,000 per recipient
towards salary replacement, national/international travel, or other
actual costs of conducting research and producing a research report for
publication by CSEHub.
Deadline for proposals is September 15, 2009.
More info
Alberta CED News
Momentum's Micro Loans Featured in Alberta Venture
Momentum's Walter Hossli and Uzo Enyi share their expertise in the article, "Small Change" that discusses the growing field of Micro Financing. Momentum alumnus, Philippe Poncet, and his bakery, Eclair de Lune, are also featured.
Alberta Community Futures Symposium: Change Leadership
September 24-26, 2009 – 2009
This 2009 event will take place at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel . The focus of this year’s Symposium will be on creating and leading change in rural Alberta. For more details including on-line registration, visit www.cfna.ca/cfna/2009-symposium/index.php
Financial Literacy and Asset Building Conference - Learn Best Practices First Hand
October 19 - 20, Edmonton, AB
Financial Literacy & Asset Building is an essential component of a poverty reduction strategy. Increase your understanding, knowledge and awareness of financial literacy and asset building, and increase your capacity to help low and middle income families to move towards financial inclusion - making the most of limited resources and building a strong financial foundation.
Registration and Info at www.financial-plus.org
Social Enterprise Fund Seminar – Sept 24th, 2009
You may be wondering where to begin? Can I even implement SE as a non-profit? Where can I get the startup capital and assistance I need? Or even, what is social enterprise and why should I do it? The seminar will help you think about and answer these questions. It is a fast paced,engaging way to see if SE is right for you. The cost is $150. Registration is limited to ten people per session. Check out socialenterprisefund.ca/seminars/
CED Tool
Community-Government Collaborations on Policy: A How-To Manual
There has been growing interest in recent years in place-based interventions and their unique contribution to tackling complex issues. Place-based strategies seek to achieve a desired objective through interventions in the neighbourhoods and communities where people live. Increasingly, however, place-based interventions are also trying to influence relevant public policies. To better understand how communities and government could collaborate on policy, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy hosted a year-long community of practice focused on this issue.The purpose of the Community of Practice was to develop an effective policy monitoring process that could be undertaken regularly by communities, and to create an information-rich guide to successful collaboration on policy, through the lens of poverty reduction. The learning, tools and experiences from this process have been synthesized in Collaboration on Policy Manual, a guide that helps community practitioners and government officials in working to design policy solutions to complex problems.
Download the Manual
Via tamarackcommunity.ca
National CED News
A Healthy, Productive Canada
In June, the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health issued its final report. Recognizing that health is largely determined by factors outside the health care system (such as income, education, housing, the physical and social environment, early childhood development and personal health practices — known as the determinants of health) this report focuses on the need for governments to adopt a whole-of-government approach, breaking down departmental and programmatic silos and supporting communities to take action. Community economic development and the social economy are specifically identified as effective strategies for coordinated action on the determinants of health, and the report mentions CCEDNet members such as the Learning Enrichment Foundation in Toronto and Quint Development Corporation in Saskatoon.Download the report
Pre-Budget Consultations 2009
The Canadian CED Network encourages members to contact us for support in advancing the Communities Agenda if they intend to present before the committee.Complete News Release with Dates and Locations
CCPA Study on IE in Canada
Canada's Declining Social Safety Net: The Case for EI Reform by economist Lars Osberg, finds that in terms of access, benefit duration, and income replacement levels, EI in Canada falls far below most other OECD countries and below the levels of Canadian unemployment insurance in past recessions.The full report can be downloaded from the CCPA website.
Registration Open - Third Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise
Living Our Values: Social Enterprise in Action
Join hundreds of existing and prospective social enterprise operators
from every region in Canada at the Third Canadian Conference on Social
Enterprise taking place in Toronto, November 18-20, 2009.
The conference will consist of three days of training and work sessions toward a national policy agenda and action plan.
Register now at www.secouncil.ca
European Commission Study on Practices and Policies in the Social Enterprise Sector in Europe
The study aims to describe key features of the social enterprise sector and to identify and present relevant support measures in 31 European countries, select and present good practices in the promotion of social enterprises and to derive and discuss conclusions concerning the further promotion of the sector.
Canada Revenue Agency Guidance on Fundraising by Canadian charities
CRA has just released its Guidance on Fundraising. globalphilanthropy.ca calls it “the most important guidance that CRA has provided in the last five years and the most important guidance on fundraising ever”.
Question about starting, growing or managing your social enterprise?
Join the official listserv of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, a bilingual community dedicated to sharing practical advice, resources and information for and about Canadian social enterprises.
Your questions posted to the forum will go out to all members across the country. Any member can respond with an answer, and all members see and benefit from these responses.
To join, send a blank email to CSE-ESC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Rural Leaders Create a Vision for Rural Canada
Healthy and vibrant rural communities are an essential part of
Canada’s future. That is the consensus of 800 rural leaders from across
Canada. Their report, One Vision, Many Voices: How to Build a
Sustainable Rural Canada outlines a comprehensive set of priorities for
action – spanning governance, infrastructure, economy and environment –
that they say are needed to ensure the sustainability of our rural
communities. The report suggests that current thinking that fragments
the realities of rural and urban Canada is counterproductive. Instead,
our rural leaders have issued a call to all Canadians to work together
to create a healthy and vibrant nation with a greater appreciation for
our interdependency.
Learn more about building sustainable rural communities by reading the report
Job Postings
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Positions to post? Send them to breimer@ccednet-rcdec.ca