Announcements from the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Professionals:
- $1000 bursaries are available to take the program in Vancouver and Victoria
- In 2009-2010 the program will be offered via video-conferencing through Community Futures in Dawson Creek, Haida Gwaii, Houston, Mission, Vanderhoof or Williams Lake
- There are still a few spots left to join the Vancouver and Victoria cohort in September
- Take the program in Calgary!
$1000 bursaries for the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Professionals available!
DEADLINE EXTENDED to AUGUST 14
The Canadian CED Network, together with Coast Capital Savings and the Vancity Community Foundation, are pleased to announce $1000 bursaries are now available for ten practitioners to upgrade their CED skills and knowledge through Simon Fraser University's Certificate Program for CED Professionals. Practitioners from Aboriginal communities and newcomer communities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information, download the Bursary Application here.
New! Courses available by video-conferencing in partnership with Community Futures
A partnership with Community Futures (CF) has allowed us to offer the program simultaneously in Dawson Creek, Haida Gwaii, Houston, Mission, Williams Lake and Vanderhoof via video-conferencing from September 2009 to May 2010. For more information, download the CF Partnership program brochure here.
Still spots available in the Victoria and Vancouver in-person courses!
The SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Professionals is offered regularly in downtown Vancouver and downtown Victoria. The first course in the program is Community Organizing for CED offered in Vancouver, September 18 and 19. There are five remaining spaces to join the 2009-2010 cohort. Apply now! Download the program brochure with application form here.
Courses now being offered in Alberta!
We are very pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, we are offering the program in Alberta in partnership with Thrive - Calgary's Community Economic Development Network. Apply by August 14. Download the program brochure with application form here.
The SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Professionals uses this framework -
Community Economic Development (CED) is an inclusive and participatory process by which communities initiate and generate their own multiple bottom-line solutions to economic problems by:
- stabilizing local economies
- creating long-term employment
- contributing to the health of the natural environment
- building on local resources and capacities
- increasing community control and ownership
As an alternative to conventional approaches to economic development, CED focuses on developing sustainable communities based on the relationship between economic factors and social, environmental and cultural element of community well-being and resilience.
More information about the program can be found at www.sfu.ca/cscd/ced or visit www.ccednet-rcdec.ca to learn more about community economic development (CED)!
Contact Nicole Chaland at certced@sfu.ca