Apply Now: $1,000 bursary for SFU's Community Economic Development Certificate

Deadline for applications is July 30, 2010

The Canadian CED Network, together with Coast Capital Savings and the Vancity Community Foundation, are pleased to announce $1,000 bursaries are now available for up to ten staff, volunteers and activists of community-based and more-than-profit organizations to enroll in Simon Fraser University's Certificate Program for Community Economic Development.

Practitioners from Aboriginal and immigrant communities are especially encouraged to apply. Click here for information about applying. www.sfu.ca/cscd/ced

The program is comprised of eight, intensive two-day courses for sustainability leaders to explore, with peers, the models and methods for building sustainable, local, robust economies. Sustainable economies depend upon cross-sector collaboration; learning is greatly enhanced by the cohort experience.

Join other community leaders and professionals in a refreshing hands-on approach to learning. Tackle real world problems with experienced practitioners to guide you.

What is Community Economic Development?
Community Economic Development builds sustainable communities by focusing on the relationship between economic factors and social, environmental and cultural elements of community well-being and resilience. It 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.