Making Waves magazine, Vol. 18, No. 1

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From: Don McNair <mcnair at cedworks.com>


The latest edition of making waves offers feature articles on community 
development finance in the U.S.A. and in Canada. At which point does the 
politics of community development finance cross the line from "strategy" 
to "disease"?

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

Building Sustainable Financial Co-Operatives
In the U.S., community development credit unions build the savings of 
disenfranchised populations into capital pools that can be recycled 
locally and affordably, according to residents' priorities. Their 
numbers and assets are now under threat, and not just from an unfriendly 
Republican administration.

The Price of Bank Unaccountability
The Harper government may seem "new," but its policies with regard to 
bank accountability are 30 years behind those to the south. In its 
legislation the U.S. recognizes banking services to be essential to the 
economic health of citizens, businesses, communities, and to the whole 
economy. Why can't Canada?

CreateAction
To gain work experience in community economic development, Canadian 
students have had to leave the country. Not any more. CreateAction is a 
unique internship program that matches the need of graduates for 
hands-on experience with the need of CED organizations for hands-on 
capacity.

The Knowledge Bottleneck
In community economic development, the connection between theory and 
practice is extremely important. So why do we find CED analysis so often 
written in ways that exclude the people engaged in CED projects and 
strategies?

The Power of Small
The Canadian CED Network is growing and fast, as the recent National CED 
Conference in St. John's, Newfoundland demonstrated. The next part is 
tougher still: to leverage political influence and results from its 
new-found size, while preserving some of the power so peculiar to the Small.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
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