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April, 2009
Evaluating the CSR of Alterna Credit Union: Focusing on Microloan Impacts
The Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and Alterna Savings Credit Union are collaborating on an innovative study that will assess the impacts of Alterna’s Microloan Program in Toronto and Ottawa. On April 24, 2009, 3ci Chair Edward Jackson, Alterna CSR Manager Susan Henry and graduate student Michele Tarsilla presented the purpose and design of this research project to the Social Economy Symposium held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The study is part of a larger initiative by the Centre, and funded by the McConnell Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, to apply a variety of methods and tools to evaluate the corporate social responsibility activities of major co-operatives and credit unions in Ontario. To view the April 24 presentation, click here
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September,
2008
Edward
T. Jackson presents at the CIRIEC-International (the
International Centre of Research and Information on the Public,
Social and Cooperative Economy) 27th Annual Conference in Seville,
Spain. The general topic of the conference was "Innovation
and Management: Answers to the great challenges of public, social
economy and cooperative enterprises".
See
more >>
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June,
2008
Remembering
Katharine Pearson
Nearly
200 people gathered in Montreal on June 25 to celebrate the life
of Katharine Pearson, philanthropy leader and social-justice activist.
Speakers included Katharine's mother, the Honourable Landon Pearson,
and sister Hilary Pearson, as well as close friends, family members
and professional colleagues. Katharine's deep commitment to her
two sons, to lifelong friendships, to social change and to a way
of working that brought people together, as well as a love for poetry
and literature, were highlighted by all the speakers.
The
J. W. McConnell Foundation, where Katharine worked for nearly a
decade, has established the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil
Society at McGill University. The Foundation has also produced a
booklet of tributes to Katharine from social-sector leaders across
the country, which will be posted on its website.
Katharine
worked closely with Carleton University for many years as the Foundation's
program manager responsible for the Community Economic Development
Technical Assistance Program. "She pushed us to live up to
our plans and to be clear about our theory of change-to be better-and
always in solidarity with our mission, and always with a smile,"
said FPA Associate Dean Ted Jackson, who directed CEDTAP. "Katharine
was an engaged and strategic funding partner of the best possible
kind."
"She
will be missed," said Katherine Graham, Dean of the Faculty
of Public Affairs. "It was our great privilege to have known
and worked with such a fine social change leader and such a wonderful
human being."
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April
2008
Case
Study of Bell CEDTAP Partnership Now Available
CEDTAP
had the privilege of working with Bell Canada on the country’s
largest and most productive corporate-university partnership in
the field of community economic development. From 2004 through 2007,
this partnership supported 150 local projects across Canada. Former
CEDTAP National Coordinator, Gail Zboch, who led this work on CEDTAP’s
side, has written up the experience as the latest in our series
on corporate sector engagement in CED. The case provides important
lessons for corporate managers and CED practitioners alike in how
to structure and maximize the benefits of joint initiatives between
corporations and civil society organizations.
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March
2008
Corporate Sector Engagement: A selection of Case Studies and Tools.
A
series of articles drawing lessons from corporate engagement to advance
community economic
development (CED), examining innovative corporate engagement strategies,
and
ways in which social impact can be captured, communicated, and enhanced.
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April
2007
CEDTAP: Shifting From Grant-Making to Knowledge Mobilization
After ten years as Canada's largest non-governmental grant-maker in
the field of community economic development, the Community Economic
Development Technical Assistance Program (CEDTAP) is shifting its
focus from grant-making to knowledge mobilization...
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January
2007
The Social Economy Research Network
Canadian researchers and practitioners are hard at work on co-generating
new knowledge about the social economy in every part of Canada. This
pan-Canadian research network, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, is coordinated by Ian MacPherson of the University
of Victoria and Rupert Downing of the Canadian CED Network. Regional
sub-networks have developed customized workplans for the Atlantic
provinces, Quebec, Southern Ontario, the Prairies and Northern Ontario,
British Columbia and Alberta, and the North. CEDTAP, and its host
agency, the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, are active on
the Advisory Board of the national Hub and in the research activities
of the Southern Ontario and Northern nodes. To learn more about the
research network's activities,
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October
2006
A Nobel for Yunus and Grameen CEDTAP
joins development organizations around the world in celebrating the
awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh. This "bank for the poor" has provided
micro-loans to nearly 7 million women borrowers in 70,000 villages
across Bangladesh. Professor Yunus and Grameen have inspired the worldwide
micro-finance movement as well as an array of social businesses in
Bangladesh, including Grameen Telecom. For more information, go to
grameenfoundation.org
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June
19, 2006
Ottawa - ON: Measuring Social Return on Investment
As part of its ongoing work on CED impacts, CEDTAP organized a workshop
on social return on investment, or SROI. Led by Bill Young, President
of Social Capital Partners, and Joanne Norris, SCP's Director of Social
Returns....
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June
2006
"Guide for Analysis of Social Economy Enterprises"
The expertise acquired over years by actors and organizations specialized
in financing social and solidarity economy in Quebec has now its English
version. This guide is an important tool for advisors and analysts
and is very well known by experts of solidarity finance...
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May
16, 2006
GUELPH, Ontario - "Innovation Pathways: Tools for Rural and Northern
Community Innovation"
A 118-page book filled with exercises, tips, ideas and strategies
for creating an innovation culture was launched today at a celebration
at the Arborteum, University of Guelph...Read
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March
16, 2006
Assessing CED Impacts
CEDTAP is carrying out a major study of the CED impacts of its projects
and grantee organizations. The study has multiple components, including
a literature review on relevant impact assessment methodologies, analysis
of completed CEDTAP projects by knowledge cluster... Read
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2006
National Conference on CED and the Social Economy:
March 15-18, 2006 - Vancouver, BC
"Leaf, Tree, Forest: Rooting Development in Community"
Register now for Canada’s premier annual community economic development
(CED) event. Join 600 CED and social economy practitioners, academics,
government partners, technical assistance providers and citizens in
vibrant downtown Vancouver.
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February
27, 2006
Measuring Expanded Value-Added
Laurie Mook, Co-Director of the Social Economy Centre at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, led a workshop
for CEDTAP staff and associates on the Expanded Value Added Statement
(EVAS). Read more >>
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February
14, 2006
How Corporations Can Engage with CED
CEDTAP joined with Bell Canada and Imagine Canada to organize a Roundtable
on Community Economic Development at the Bell Canada building in Calgary.
Attended by some 15 corporate representatives with responsibility
for community investment, Aboriginal relations and corporate social
responsibility: Read
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Ottawa,
ON, October 19, 2005
The Ontario Trillium Foundation Gives $624,900 to Carleton University--CED
Network Taps on Talents of Non-Profit Sector.
In one of its largest grants ever, the Ontario Trillium Foundation
recently approved a grant of $624,900 over 30 months to Carleton University
on behalf of a collaborative of three non-profit organizations:
Read more - PDF size 134 KB.
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August
26, 2005
Implementation of a health services co-operative: Factors for success
and failure.
An analysis by: Jean-Pierre Girard
If there is a sector in which community economic development can be
established with vigour, it is that of the health sector.
Read More - PDF size 606 KB
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July
25, 2005
CEDTAP Program Update
We would like to take the opportunity of the summer months to provide
you with a brief update on CEDTAP's progress.
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March
18, 2005
Approved CEDTAP initiatives in 2004 now available
CEDTAP funded 53 projects in 2004, on a range of activities focused
from feasibility studies, business and strategic planning, to marketing,
evaluation, and training...
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Boulot Vers... 20 Ans à Meubler des Vies -written
by Anne-Marie Mottet and recently published by Éditions du
Boréal, tells the story of a local venture entirely dedicated
to employment insertion of young adults in difficulty. |
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The
Business of Building Strong Communities
- article by CEDTAP's co-founder Edward Jackson
Grantmaking
from the inside
- article by Edward Jackson |
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