CEDC Gateway

Gateway to Community Economic Development Resources
By the

Centre for Sustainable Community Development

at Simon Fraser University

Gateway to CED

People all over the world are working with their neighbours to create a shared vision of a healthy, sustainable community and collaborating to bring their vision to life. Some call their work Community Economic Development (CED), others have no name for what they are doing but persist because they know and feel that it is something that they can not "not do."

CED is a community-based and community-directed process that explicitly combines social and economic development and is directed towards fostering the economic, social, ecological and cultural well-being of communities and regions. This site can direct you to a few stories of successful CED that will inspire and inform you as they show you what CED can do. This site can help you begin to imagine the possibilities for your own community and guide you in the creation of your own vision. Once you're ready to learn how to make your vision come to life, you can go travel further with the guidance this site provides.

Interest and activity in Community Economic Development is widespread. The network of those who are engaged in CED vast. The resources that are available to support CED activity are rich and varied. This Gateway to CED is designed to help you discover and explore CED. You are at the threshold. Where do you want to go next?

If you are not familiar with our site and/or are new to Community Economic Development, we suggest you take a look at the Site Overview, then proceed to the Introduction to CED. If you are familier with our site and have a specific aspect of CED in which you are interested, head to the Gateway Contents for quick and easy access to specific pages. Be sure to let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

On behalf of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University, welcome to the Gateway and enjoy your stay.

Mark Roseland
Director, CSCD

Acknowledgements

This project is the fruit of many people's labours. Many thanks to Gerald Hodge, Stephen Ameyaw, Larry Trunkey, Penny Simpson and John Pierce of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development for conceptualizing the idea, securing the funding and writing the text. Thanks also to Margo Guertin for organizing the project and coordinating with community groups, and to Lisa Taylor for compiling the report on the original test version. Particular thanks are owed to individuals, community groups in northern BC, the Interior, and the Lower Mainland who gave us feedback on the test version. In particular, we thank Louise Arnold, Jenny Heyes and Headley Kitchener for their valuable comments.

We wish to thank the following persons and groups who have given permission to use copyrighted material in Gateway to CED. We apologize if we have left any out of this list at this time. We will be adding more detailed information and links to all of them shortly.

Wayne Berry, Editor, ICURR, "Checklist of Success"
David Ross, Canadian Council on Social Development, From the Roots Up
Keith Thompson, Thompson Educational Publishing, for Galway & Hudson's CED: Social & Economic Perspectives
Emil Malizia, University of North Carolina, "Risks vs. Awards Chart", Local Economic Development
BC Working Group on CED and the Queen's Printer of British Columbia, Sharing Stories of CED
Grahame Arnould, Brackendale, Cartoonist

The original version was prepared for WWW by John Jespersen. Thanks to Steve Prager, Deanna Thorson and Peter Eisenbock for their design work, and to Penny Simpson for getting it on line. Thanks as well to the BC Working Group on CED and to the BC Ministry of Small Bsiness, Tourism and Culture for enabling us to include Sharing Stories: Community Economic Development in British Columbia as part of this project. Finally, thanks to the BC Ministry of Education, Skills and Training for recognizing a good thing and providing funding for the project under their Innovations Grant program.

And now, the Gate...

Copyright 1997, Simon Fraser University Community Economic Development Centre, unless prior copyright is indicated herein. You are welcome to make a copy for your own use, provided this copyright paragraph is included in full and credit is given. For any other duplication or distribution purpose (profit or non-profit), please contact the Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada, V5A 1S6, Phone (604) 291 5849, Fax (604) 291-5473. Page design by Steve Prager.