The Canadian CED Network

Working together to build a Communities Agenda

Poverty, homelessness, environmental degradation, inadequate child care, and gaps in social programs are resulting in worsening conditions in many communities. Community economic development offers a holistic approach to tackling these issues. In order to be successful, it needs a supportive public policy environment.

CCEDNet joins with others concerned about growing social and economic inequality in Canada. These are our recommendations for implementing a Community Economic Development approach to eliminating poverty and revitalizing communities. This is our case for change.

A Communities Agenda:

1. Build Fairer and Stronger Local Economies

2. Tackle Poverty and Homelessness

3. Invest in Sustainable Communities

To download a printable version of our policy brochure please click here>>

The Insiders' Guides are 4-page, 8.5 x 11 inch publications that use illustration and straightforward language to do two things:

• support the efforts of practitioners and other activists to make mainstream some concepts and tools critical to community revitalization.
• foster a debate about effective strategies for community education and engagement in the development process.

CCE staff developed the theme, text, and layout of each in consultation with a group of practitioners. They then took the finished "IG" to press in the pages of the quarterly magazine Making Waves.

To view these illustrations, click here. 

The guiding CED principles of Neechi Foods Worker Co-op, Winnipeg MB. These principles are what the Manitoba Provincial Government uses in its CED framework.

Download the poster (1 page pdf)

Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development practice now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates.

This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, but also the U.S. and Kenya, through a wide range of subjects, the evolution of its definitions and economic dimensions.

To order this book, click here.