Making Waves Autumn 2006

In the autumn 2006 edition of "Making Waves: Canada's Community Economic Development Magazine" contributors tangle over the purpose of CED and social economy. Are they to make "the system" work? To make it bearable? Or to make a whole new system?

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CONTENTS
Climbing Past the Summit
Capitalism is a tool that gets results - when community-based organizations apply it in the service of solidarity, sustainability, and justice, as well as efficient production.

An Inch Wide & A Mile Deep
The effort to create a role in a 21st-century economy for the towns of the Mississippi Delta has turned Southern Bancorporation into a hands-on facilitator of community development.
Learning Community Development Finance
Stewart Perry recommends three books, especially Richard Taub's Doing Development in Arkansas, for a do-it-yourself orientation to community development finance.

The Master's Tools?
A lot of CED practice aims to make marginalized groups "players" in a game that, when played well, pushes people like them to the sidelines. But what if they don't want to join?

Success Without Succession?
In Winnipeg, Inner City Development Inc. is turning a good social "profit" as well as a financial one. Yet ICD may not be all that long-lived, nor is it likely to be replicable.

Wicked!
The problems of modern communities are not just complex, they are wicked. In fact, the degree to which we keep hankering after simple solutions may be a measure of our reluctance to make significant change happen.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
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Voluntarism Hits 30-Year High, Study Finds

Levels of voluntarism in the United States have reached a thirty-year high, as more teenagers, boomers, and older adults choose to give back to their communities, a new study from the Washington, D.C.-based Corporation for National and Community Service finds.

According to Volunteer Growth in America: A Review of Trends Since 1974 (15 pages, PDF), adult voluntarism increased more than 32 percent between 1989 and 2005, largely because of involvement by three age groups — teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19, baby boomers and others aged 45 to 65, and older adults 65 and over. ...

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New Wiki - What is the Social Economy?

What is the Social Economy?
From SEWiki

The Social Economy Wiki site is put together to examine the effectiveness of creating a Social Economy Wiki in Canada as part of the Canadian Social Economy Suite project.

So far the site examines the following areas:
1. Definitions of the Social Economy
2. Macro-economic Perspective and the Social Economy
3. Government Support for the Social Economy 2004
4. Social Economy and the Federal Government of Canada
5. The Social Investment State
6. The Social economy and CED
7. The Social economy in Quebec
8. The Social Economy and Gender
9. Operational Definition of the Social Economy
10. The Social Economy and Public-sector Nonprofits
11. The Social Economy and a Sustainable Food System
12. Research Needs
13. Questions arising from this examination

Telelearning Session 2 Audio Posted!

All of us at the Canadian Social Economy Hub would like to thank everyone who participated to help make our first french telelearning session a success! Special thanks to Luc Thériault and Monique Beaudoin for their wonderful presentations and discussion!

Visit the main Telelearning Session 2 page for all the information on this event - L'économie sociale et solidaire au Canada