The Edmonton CDC is happy to play an ongoing role in the purchase and redevelopment of the Piazza strip mall by the McCauley Development Co-op. As you may have heard, the MDC formed in late 2019 and raised $1.1 million of community investments to purchase the Piazza in only 20 days. Today, the MDC is…
This Month: Hub in the time of COVID By Karen Gingras, Director of Neighbourhood Development at Edmonton CDC We are excited to announce that, in early July, the first session in the Fraser Community Hub integrated design process (IPD) was completed. As you might recall form last month’s HUBdate, IPD is a novel, collaborative approach…
This Month: Introducing the Integrated Design Process By Karen Gingras, Director of Neighbourhood Development at Edmonton CDC Welcome to the first edition of Fraser HUBdates, a blog series from the Edmonton Community Development Company aimed at keeping friends and neighbours of the Fraser Community Hub project updated on the latest stages of development. Projects like the Fraser Hub depend on the…
By Mark Holmgren, Executive Director of Edmonton CDC When it became clear that COVID-19 required self-isolation and social distancing, the Edmonton CDC immediately turned its attention to how to adapt to the new normal. We closed our offices and instituted restrictions on staff and operations. We immediately got to work on moving the Social Enterprise…
Doing our work during the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled the CDC to learn and deploy online tools to meet with our colleagues and stakeholders. Please read and share the following information if it may be of use to you and your contacts. We researched a number of online video conferencing and engagement platforms and opted…
In response to the pandemic and in order to do our part to overcome it, the CDC has instituted policy which will be reviewed no more than every two weeks. I have attached our policy for those who wish to review it. Until further notice, staff will be working online, with rare appearances at the…
Recently, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada published the results of a survey gauging Canadians’ attitudes toward the economy, their perceived degree of power and influence over their own lives, and the roles that cooperatives might play in improving conditions for Canadians. According to David Coletto, who wrote about the study on the Abacus Data site: “The…
Community development is in its prime when a community identifies an aspiration, organizes a collaborative plan, and invests local talent, time, and money in the cause. Ideally, the community will own and control what it has created; community development practitioners know, however, that community ownership of a venture or initiative is a rarity. Not this…
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