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• From Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: Clusters share and must be supported and sustained by infrastructure - "quality foundations" - which include a skilled and adaptable workforce, education, capital and advanced physical infrastructure.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Joint learning, including communities of practice, develops a shared repetoire of methods, tools, techniques, language, stories and procedures by building a sense of trust and comfort in asking questions, attain higher profiles, link communities and transfer base knowledge.
• From 503 notes from September 14, 2008: reform - health, social, education
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Between clusters, adaptation, engagement and opportunity can be combined with sustenance to provide access to healthy resources such as cooking classes, engage with helpful groups such as artists, and opportunities in training and community run businesses.
• From Concepts: * FormaPlus - resources in workforce training
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Understanding complexity is another challenge, "wicked problems". For example, poverty concentration factors include teenage pregnancy, single-parent families, lack of education and poor literacy, higher levels of chronic and mental illness, housing instability, substance abuse, crime, and disproportionate reliance on government income programs.
• From MW150132 - New Synergies.pdf: Italy outpaces Canada in social co-ops (health, home care, social services, education, recreation).
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Quebec government has enacted anti-poverty legislation with Bill 112's National Strategy to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, with reporting every three years. Interventions include promotion of school success and social integration, basic education and access to continuing education, and volunteer and community actions. Montreal declared a Montreal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities, with obligations for government actors. The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador released Reducing Poverty: An Action Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador in June 2006, which calls for a long term plan.
• From MW150132 - New Synergies.pdf: Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. traditional collaborative life to co-operatives. Inuit art, hotels, outfitting, cable tv, construction, property management. Keep control up north, provide training and resources.
• From MW150113 - CED & Social Economy in Canada - A People's History.pdf: Nisga native in BC fought for land claims, own health care and school board.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: In the communities agenda, doing involves creating links, and collaborative work - information exchange, shared learning and training, integrated development plans and initatives, consolidated application procedures and protocols, joint procurement and common evaluation. Groups in Quebec have a longer history of collaborative forums, such as the 'tables de concertaction.'
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Building knowledge for different interventions requires a focus on different clusters; affordable housing, homeless and income security conforms to sustenance; child care, social networks and literacy to adaptation; recreation, cultural expression or local decision-making to engagement; skills training, employment and asset creation to the opportunities cluster.
• From MW150107 - Common Ground.pdf - Social Economy & CED: Social tasks - learning | school | training | train, housing, health and security, active culture & recreation, engage
• From Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: Social health is a !Indicator | Indicators | measuring | metrics | indicator | indicators | Measured | trends | baseline | status | profile of a healthy economy. Healthy communities create stability, create networks of trust, foster learning and networking, and are critical for innovation. They attract skilled workers, who are critical to competitiveness. They are therefore recognised as the "engines of nations," and it is important to develop quality of life factors and provide social infrastructure. This includes addressing issues such as racial tension, poverty, employment and housing issues, social exclusion. drug abuse and domestic violence.
• From MW150121 - Transformed by Community Economic Development.pdf: Southwest Montréal - from an industrial centre to poverty. PEP and RESO successful intervention through citizen engagement: socio-economic partners - organization must be composed of voting | vote | democracy | !democratic | election representatives of different sectors of the community (four from business, four from community based organization | community organization | community based organizations, two union Leader | lead | leading, two associate members known for their influence, board grew to include local institutions, residence and elected municipal officials), committees and forums, AGM; Collaboration: supporting key community projects, economic, employment and recreation tourist plans; employment support and advice to entrepreneur | entrepreneurship, maintain industrial zoning, networking between businesses, workshops for training, secondary school for adults developed with industrial | factory, unions and literacy organizations.
• From Concepts: "Result of a 15 year journey of education and agitation" (MW150102, 2004)
• From Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: The opportunity cluster provides an investment in employment related skills. Activities and organizations stem from collective entrepreneurship, creation of development accounts, learning bonds, home ownership, and financial assets, and are guided by principals of democratic engagement and shared profit.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Diversity can create unpredictibility, but also creativity and innovation, requiring creative problem solving, learning through innovation. Communities must anticipate change, manage challenge and harness opportunity, while rooted in difficult social and economic contexts.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Vibrant Communities is an organization that focuses on reducing poverty, using a structured learning circle, the Pan-Canadian Learning Community. Trail Builder communities receive funding to develop inclusive strategies, using local governence boards with diverse members including business,government, volunteer organizations and individuals.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 2 - Ghorayshi, Gradon, Kliewer "Towards a Social Theory in Community Economic Development: Idealizing Community in the Era of Globalization": Approaches to community development derived from colonial administration efforts post world war II"post world war II" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. in developing basic education, as well as nation-state changes, market economy, communications and transnational connections. The term was used often in the UN in the 1950s"1950s" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation., and appeared in 1960s in social sciences approaches. It returns to attention today due to globalization.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 3 - Lamb "Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development": Cohesiveness may not exist and may need to be created for collective action. An expectation exists that individuals respond to economic disadvantage by seeking gains through the political system. Those who have more to gain, such as job training or employment, are considered more likely to participate. Individuals weigh benefits of participating in collective actions against the costs of participation. Benefits include public and private benefits, personal satisfaction, actualization or entertainment, or concern for others.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 3 - Lamb "Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development": Location theory builds on intrinsic labour and energy costs, and availability of suppliers, comunications, education, training and quality of life and local goernment, eventually beyond natural attributes using technology. It relates to CED through the idea of enhancement.
• From MW150132 - New Synergies.pdf: Multicultural Health Brokers Co-Operative Ltd. provide social, emotional support, education services for immigrants. Compensated through service contracts with health institutions, pilot/project funding.
• From Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: The adaptation cluster provides coping and capacities facilities - child care, education, settlement. social capital, and core proficiencies.