Making Waves magazine, Winter 2007

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

From: Don McNair <mcnair at cedworks.com>


In the latest edition of Making Waves, contributors wrestle with the 
possibility of a transformative agenda for community economic 
development and social economy. The gap between what we actually do and 
what truly needs doing is a source of anxiety to some, exhilaration to 
others.

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Apologies for cross-postings

CONTENTS

A Successful Succession
After 15 years in harness, the founders of the Women in Need Society 
began to prepare for retirement. To whom could they entrust not just its 
shops, programs, and bursaries for women in transition, but a greater 
agenda of community change?

Social Economy & Solidarity Economy
Most practitioners of social economy draw a heavy line between what they 
do, and what happens in the private and public systems. Yet two 
outstanding social economy organizations owe much of their impact to 
close collaboration with those systems.

How We Imagine Community Change Matters!
To figure out how much they are achieving, CED practitioners often track 
property values, business starts, and unemployment rates. We would be 
wiser to match our objectives and measures to the qualitative change 
that CED is really about: the transformation of the social capital of 
low-income communities.

Challenging The Consensus
Transforming or Reforming Capitalism (John Loxley, ed.) shows how, with 
greater theoretical depth and breadth, we can turn CED from the practice 
"everybody loves" into a discipline that tackles exclusion and 
inequality head-on.

Community Development Law & the Future Of Canada's Community Sector
We have unleashed the private sector on many of Canada's problems; it's 
time we unleashed social enterprise, too. One way to do that is to build 
the legal infrastructure that befits a movement for social change.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
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