Making Waves Magazine, summer 2007

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

From:  Don McNair <mcnair at cedworks.com>


The current edition of making waves features articles on a penitentiary 
inmate art marketing co-op, community internet, social franchises, a 
dedicated lender to the CED and social economy sectors, as well as a 
strategy for scaling up their successes.

Find a summary of the contents below. To view sample content in PDF, 
request a trial copy, or subscribe, go to www.cedworks.com/waves.html.

Apologies for cross-postings.

CONTENTS

A Passion For Renewal
There can't be any population more "marginalized" than the inmates of 
Mountain Institute, a medium-security penitentiary in British Columbia. 
Over the last two years Mountain has also played host to a unique 
experiment in social enterprise: InsideArt, a marketing co-operative for 
inmate artists.

The Good News About CAP
In ten years, volunteers and community organizations have leveraged 
Community Access Program grants five times over to make community 
internet a part of the life and the development of towns and 
neighbourhoods across the country. Why do the feds want to suffocate a 
program that they should celebrate?

Les franchises d'entreprises sociales, vous connaissez ?
The "social franchise"is a way for social enterprises like Commodus of 
Montréal to replicate proven products, services, and systems. It's also 
a way for community groups to get on with running successful businesses, 
not researching business ideas.

$2 million available . . .
After 20 years of loaning money to nonprofit organizations and social 
enterprises, the Canadian Alternative Investment Co-operative still 
faces one major obstacle: the failure of the sector itself to appreciate 
how practical a tool debt can be.

All The Tools, All The Time
To get innovations in CED and social enterprise away from the margins 
and into the mainstream of national life, we must deploy five major 
tools simultaneously and persistently - across generations, in fact: 
evaluation, replication and dissemination, procurement, public policy, 
and financing.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
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