Community Development Banking List
05-07-2009, 06:58 PM
Original message from: mcnair@cedworks.com
Hello
The Spring 2009 edition of Making Waves has been
released on-line at
<http://www.cedworks.com/waves.html>www.cedworks.com/waves.html. ('http://www.cedworks.com/waves.html>www.cedworks.com/waves.html.')
Find a summary of the contents below.
Apologies for cross-postings.
An Agenda for the Renewal of Our Communities
Sherri Torjman of the Caledon Institute urges
organizations of every sector to outgrow habits
of short-term, outcome specific, and
uni-dimensional action. Instead, let them apply
themselves to a "shared space" of programs,
investments, and enterprises that build community resilience.
Seven Prerequisites of Transformation
How is it that so many noted authors have such
similar ideas about the habits, practices, and
attitudes essential to community transformation?
To Michelle Colussi, these "prerequisites" read
like an evaluation checklist for her practice. For yours too?
A CED Dating Service
Skilled, community-minded professionals and
purposeful but cash-poor community organizations
– sounds like a match just waiting to happen,
doesn’t it? Well … sort of. Recent experience in
Winnipeg suggests that it is doable and
worthwhile, but requires a sharp eye for the
specifics of supply, demand, and times of delivery.
Equity Capital for CED
To make a real difference, community economic
development organizations have to own productive
pieces of the local economy. But making those
investments requires in-house competence and
capacity that are equal to the task, as well as
capital. In New Hampshire’s Community Development
Finance Authority, reports Dr. Stewart E. Perry,
CEDOs have a state agency that supplies all three.
Finally, note that this autumn a special edition
of Making Waves, “Capital for Communities,” will
broach the ways and means to give capital a
catalytic (rather than catastrophic) role in
community change. Go to
<http://www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html>www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html ('http://www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html>www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html')
for more details.
Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
Visit the CED DIGITAL BOOKSHOP at www.cedworks.com!
Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
1601 - 25th Avenue, Vernon, B.C. V1T 1M8 CANADA
direct line 250-542-7057 customer service (toll-free) 1-888-255-6779
Hello
The Spring 2009 edition of Making Waves has been
released on-line at
<http://www.cedworks.com/waves.html>www.cedworks.com/waves.html. ('http://www.cedworks.com/waves.html>www.cedworks.com/waves.html.')
Find a summary of the contents below.
Apologies for cross-postings.
An Agenda for the Renewal of Our Communities
Sherri Torjman of the Caledon Institute urges
organizations of every sector to outgrow habits
of short-term, outcome specific, and
uni-dimensional action. Instead, let them apply
themselves to a "shared space" of programs,
investments, and enterprises that build community resilience.
Seven Prerequisites of Transformation
How is it that so many noted authors have such
similar ideas about the habits, practices, and
attitudes essential to community transformation?
To Michelle Colussi, these "prerequisites" read
like an evaluation checklist for her practice. For yours too?
A CED Dating Service
Skilled, community-minded professionals and
purposeful but cash-poor community organizations
– sounds like a match just waiting to happen,
doesn’t it? Well … sort of. Recent experience in
Winnipeg suggests that it is doable and
worthwhile, but requires a sharp eye for the
specifics of supply, demand, and times of delivery.
Equity Capital for CED
To make a real difference, community economic
development organizations have to own productive
pieces of the local economy. But making those
investments requires in-house competence and
capacity that are equal to the task, as well as
capital. In New Hampshire’s Community Development
Finance Authority, reports Dr. Stewart E. Perry,
CEDOs have a state agency that supplies all three.
Finally, note that this autumn a special edition
of Making Waves, “Capital for Communities,” will
broach the ways and means to give capital a
catalytic (rather than catastrophic) role in
community change. Go to
<http://www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html>www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html ('http://www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html>www.cedworks.com/mw2003e_01.html')
for more details.
Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
Visit the CED DIGITAL BOOKSHOP at www.cedworks.com!
Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
1601 - 25th Avenue, Vernon, B.C. V1T 1M8 CANADA
direct line 250-542-7057 customer service (toll-free) 1-888-255-6779