Creating effective champions for green, inclusive economies.
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The program is comprised of eight, intensive two-day courses for community leaders to explore, with peers, the models and methods for building sustainable, local, robust economies. Tackle real world problems with experienced practitioners to guide you.
What is Community Economic Development?
Community Economic Development explicitly combines social and economic development to increase community control, build self-reliance, restore ecological integrity and create meaningful employment. Community Economic Development builds the green economy by crafting solutions that simultaneously address the dual problem of ecological degradation and social inequality.
Connect with us
Contact the Program Director, Nicole Chaland at (250) 686-1167 or certced@sfu.ca.
The Certificate Program for Community Economic Development is jointly delivered by the Centre for Sustainable Community Development and the Canadian Community Economic Development Network.
