COMMUNITY ECONOMIES PILOT
Place-based economic development is both unwaveringly specific and universally applicable; learnings from on-the-ground community development practice can be adapted to other communities, big and small. Five entrepreneurial communities across Canada were engaged by Shorefast and its partners to contribute to the CEP as “Prototype Communities.” Together, the Prototype Communities were working to distil place-based know-how, identify best and promising practices for community-based economic development, and inform the development of tools such as this document to share the learning from the communities, and the pilot itself. The Prototype Communities are the first cohort towards Shorefast’s longer-term vision of a sustained Community Economies program.
