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• 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": The growth-based approach assumes developing local industries to integrate into the larger capitalist economy to bring more prosperity. Ironic concerns arise around societical fragmentation due to adapted CED terms (and related terms, such as "social capital" used like a financial state rather than relationships), and making communites bankable components of the larger capitalist system. Interventions end up serving individuals rather than communities, dismember government, and serve as forms of social control by their definition. The section concludes that this kind of growth is most appropriate in emergencies, with more complex process required under ordinary circumstances.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 3 - Lamb "Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development": Staple theory is around diversification of an export base. Its backward linkages measure dependencies in the region - a restaurant purchasing local food and labour. Forward linkages measure output sold to other regional sectors. Demand linkage is a measure of how much investment in regional industry produces goods for consumption, investment or government purhcase by the export sector. clarify Leakage measures income flows leaving a community, for example through migratory workers, external input purchases, or externally owned enterprises. Linkages are multiplied by domestic production, and supply side expansion in labour, capital, entrepeneurship, and complementary input (eg technology).
• From MW150121 - Transformed by Community Economic Development.pdf: Issues: A partnership, or farming out government work? Political and financial autonomy.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Information exchanges, such as the Vibrant Communities initiative which linked government agencies and stakeholders, deepen awareness.
• 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 Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Higher wages and benefits, including knowledge about existing benefits, are also encouraged or enforced through policy, community and government intervention.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Joint problem-solving brings communities and governments together, and usually achieves measurable results (useful for reviewing). It ideally results in policy development, resulting in larger systemic change. Collaborative efforts are either self-prescribed or directed. An issue is the agenda may not be community-driven and generally needs ongoing government involvement.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: In creating new stock, collaborative work such as the Quality of Life CHALLENGE in BC linked federal, provincial, municipal government, institutions and community groups with the Housing Affordability Partnership. The flow of capital was coordinated, and housing trust funds set up. Total funds leverage 14 times the amount from provincial and federal government. By-law was influenced to join up work, create linkage and scale up efforts.
• From MW150102 - Editorial - The End of the Beginning.pdf: Manitoba created a CED focused !government | Municipalities | municipal.
• From MW150102 - Editorial - The End of the Beginning.pdf: Emphasis since 2004 on celebrating; communicating (especially to English press/population); educate to senior civil servants, present at important meetings. Need to strengthen dialogue between CCEDNet, networks and movement with shared values goals, members including credit unions, women | Women's groups, Aboriginal and anti-poverty groups, Community Futures Development Corporations, union | unions movement, business | businesses sectors (especially those with social mandates); evaluate (specify strategy | strategies uses, eg capacity building, research not just for academically-led research projects, defining patient capital, is it meeting social economy enterprise needs, organizing for the right !Collaboration | collaboration | Partnership | partnership | synergistic | partner | collaborative - Québecers better prepared because of Foundation | foundation, for human capital, better integration of existing programs - 5-city demonstration project advocate by Learning Enrichment Foundation and CCEDNet, cost-benefit research for integrated, outcomes | Outcome | Outcomes-driven approaches. Looking to allies in Martin government; activate, Innovation | emerging | Emerging | modernization, agitate.
• 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": Local community efforts in North America date to early 20th century"early 20th century" contains a sequence that could not be interpreted against an available match matrix for date components. settler communities, losing their popularity in in the 1950s - 1960s"1950s - 1960s" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation. due to a surge in capitalism. By the Temporal:1980s, globalization, post-industrialism and neo-liberal policies, promoted market players and supported by government, had deprecated welfare state ideals. Civil society, in forms such as NGOs, CDCs, CD, CED, CDIO, micro-enterprise, micro-lending, PRA, etc emerged in support of local development and empowerment, with an assumption they could support good social services. Successes have included fighting the economic problems of exclusion, and time dollar banks.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Community infrastructure and individual capacity are used to address basic sustenance needs. The private sector, government and communities are involved in providing sustenance.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: A solution is in the shift from government (eg rules and regulations set in parliament) to governance by local stakeholders, with community based local governance structures which may be more inclusive and have longer visions.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: In addition, communities must work with internal organizations, government and universities.
• 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": Technology can be used in transformative strategies. CED may also link economic, social, environmental, political and cultural considerations, departing from the current economic system, and as a way to engage with government.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 3 - Lamb "Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development": Exportable commodities are the basis of export theory, where regional advantages in production and transportation are used, often bolstered through government or external capital subsidies in infrastructure, and the community strengths, such as marketing organizations, credit and transport facilities, are enhanced. Total economic activity is based on exports (basic), with a non-export (non-basic) local economy. Cyclical sensitivities are determined by the elasticity of staples (eg essentials vs luxuries). The community's success is determined by the success of its exports, affected by fall in demand, exhaustion of a natural resource, uncompetitive resource costs or technological change. Transportation development or higher income may result in more (but uneven) export opportunities, bringing new capital.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Communities need new structures (that emphasize interconnectedness). Municipalities need to be more inclusive of local voices, and are limited by elections.
• From 503 notes from September 14, 2008: Contributes to neoliberalism - less government to pick up pieces.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: The government has committed itself to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, however the 1989 House of Commons resolution to eliminate poverty by 2000 was not largely successful.
• From MW150113 - CED & Social Economy in Canada - A People's History.pdf: 1970 Québec government wanted to "close" Villages with no deemed future. Villages formed co-ops to Survive.
• From Transforming or Reforming Capitalism - Chapter 3 - Lamb "Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development": The net fiscal impact, designed for government and politicians, is calculated by taking the difference between additional tax revenues and net changes in government expenditures. Local governments can justify subsidization up to the level of of a positive fiscal impact. Multipliers result in increased benefits, due to lower production costs, compared to units subdidized in isolation. An issue is that fiscal benefits are spread among government, but the government benefiting the most may not be able to provide subsidization.
• From MW150126 - The Political Imperative.pdf: 1983 "work for welfare" in Québec, leads to marginalization. Allied with unions, business, politicians, institutions, government. RESO.
• From 503 notes from September 14, 2008: Keynesian - government controlled
• 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 Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: An issue is that clusters operate at cross purposes, are disconnected, have too few links, and a lack of collaboration. Therefore the communities agenda is tasked with creating healthy resilience clusters by improving links between cluster actors. It may be necessary to fill gaps first, for example, addressing affordable housing. It is also tasked with improving links, and finally to improve links between communities and government.
• From 503 notes from September 14, 2008: Insider - government allies.
• From 501 notes from September 13, 2008: Neoliberal - less government.
• 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 Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Government can intervene by investing in the supply of amenities, supporting entities such as developers willing to build affordable housing, and providing land or land trusts to muncipalities and nonprofit corporations. Rehabilitation of land, policies, incentives and tax credits can also be used, as well as focusing on setting good wage conditions, government benefit programs, and lower the cost of basics such as utilities and transportation for affected groups.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Because of competitive global conditions (including externalization), governments mainly rely on property tax for revenue, which contributes to a governance gap between local challenges and their problem-solving capacity.
• From MW150132 - New Synergies.pdf: VanCity, loaning money "east of Main street"; loans, low limit credit cards, payment plans, financial literacy programs, microfinance, resettlement. Negotiate with government to permit account holders to save money while on welfare.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 4 - Supporting Sustenance: Local governance can focus on complex, long term plans, whereas communities must focus tactically due to lack of resources while using created governance. Coordination mechanisms, and comprehensive community initiatives, that encourage collaboration within integrated clusters of actions, government and the private sector, are required.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Know-who also means understanding government structures, between federal, provincial and municipal governments.
• From Shared Space - Chapter 3 - Working in the Shared Space: Joint ventures build on service integration to combine mandates, resources, skills and plans when organizations do not have fiscal or jurisdiction to solve a problem. The Vancouver Agreement created a strategic plan for the Downtown Lower East Side in a March 2000 agreement with government, communities and business.
• From Shared Space Chapter 2 - Organizing for complexity: Community initiatives are also important to address gaps in government and community agencies, because they involve local stakeholders used to dealing with relevant complexity in a less segregated way.
• From Shared Space Chapter 1 - Reaching for Resilience: The communities agenda is the what and how. It creates resilience through strategy, and results from actions in the key sustenance, adaptation, engagement and opportunity clusters, and complements policy and government intervention. Combined they are "investments in the public good," and support local and national economies.