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Business
Development
Community Development
Evaluation
Funders
Organizational Development
Other CED Resources and Organizations
Statistics
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CED Background Report
BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
The
Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has on-line
resources on topics such as marketing plans and feasibility studies.
The Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency has resources on how to prepare
a business plan and a marketing plan.
Strategis
feature a comprehensive business development resource centre developed
by Industry Canada.
Western
Economic Diversification Canada, Aboriginal
Business Canada and FedNor
also provide information and resources on a regional level.
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
The
Community Development Handbook provides an introduction to community
development and capacity building. A Facilitator's Guide is also
available.
Effective
Community Decision Making is a factsheet on community involvement,
decision making and methods of initiating action.
EVALUATION
The
Canadian Council
on Social Development has a central repository of Social Indicator
material on the Internet.
FUNDERS
The
Canadian
Women's Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of women
and girls through economic and social change. The Foundation makes
grants to charitable projects that help women and girls achieve
greater self-reliance and economic independence.
Canadian
Community Foundations: Here you will find a list of Community
Foundations by region. Contact the community foundation in your
area to find out if your initiative is eligible for funding under
their grant guidelines. There's also information
on how to establish a community foundation.
The
Canadian
Agricultural Rural Communities Initiative (CARCI) enhances the
viability of agricultural rural communities, particularly those
communities undergoing change as a result of adjustment in the agricultural
sector.
The
Canadian
Rural Partnership supports community-based solutions that improve
the quality of life for Canadians living in rural and remote areas.
The
Canadian Alternative
Investment Co-operative invests in groups working for positive
social change and CED in Canada that lack access to traditional
financing.
ORGANIZATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
The
Canadian
Co-operative Association has resources on how to start and federally-incorporate
a co-op, and guidelines for co-operative organizing for young entrepreneurs.
The
Co-operatives
Secretariat also has useful information on forming co-ops.
The
Department
of Canadian Heritage has information on how to estimate the
economic contribution of volunteer work and how to create volunteer
programs for young people.
A
Media
Relations Toolkit, developed by The Ontario Trillium Foundation,
provides information and factsheets on the basics of media relations.
The
Ontario Co-operative Association,
is the primary voice for co-ops and credit unions in Ontario.
The
Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has factsheets
available on topics such as volunteer management, project management,
strategic planning, fundraising and leadership.
OTHER
CED RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS
The
Canadian
CED Network promotes excellence and investment in CED.
The
Canadian
Co-operative Association is the national umbrella organization
of anglophone co-operatives.
The
Canadian
Social Economy Hub is a CED research organization.
The
CSEHub facilitates collaboration among six regional research centres
across Canada:
The
Canadian Worker
Co-operative Federation is a national association of worker
co-operatives. Its vision is to develop and support an integrated
network of democratically controlled worker co-ops which provide
a high quality of worklife, and which work together to support the
development of healthy and sustainable local economies, based on
co-operative principles.
The
Centre for Community
Enterprise has a number of resources available for order on
topics such as planning, local empowerment, faith-based initiatives
and sustainable development.
The
CIRIEC
Conference 2007 is the first international CIRIEC Research Conference
on the social economy.
The
Nova Scotia Government
Website provides resources for activists and academics interested
in CED.
The
Toronto CED
Learning Network's website has earned a Changemakers Award given
to organizations around the world which have demonstrated excellence
in social entrepreneurship. It has over 1,400 hyperlinks to free
resources and information of interest to the CED community.
Women
in Transition Out of Poverty is a paper that addresses a comprehensive,
holistic approach to moving women out of poverty. It includes practical
learning and concepts that may assist CED practitioners in strengthening
their economic development programs for women. More reports on the
issue are available at the website of Canadian
Women's Foundation.
STATISTICS
Statistics
and Profiles of Canadian Communities provides access to statistical
information from the 1996 Census of Population.
The
Canadian
Council on Social Development has statistics and factsheets
available on issues such as child poverty, family poverty and urban
poverty.
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