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Info attached on interesting program for empowering communities and building technical assistance capacity. Funding (50/50, $5,000 to $25,000 per project) by the J.W. McConnell Foundation and the Centre for Study in Training, Investment and Economic Restructuring at Carleton University. Note there is no deadline but proposals will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis from mid-January, 1998. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The funding program described below is a 50/50 cost share approach between the program and the community for professional/technical services, with the program covering all of the administrative and travel costs. The Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program -CEDTAP- Empowering Communities and Building Technical Assistance Capacity The Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program or CEDTAP is a four-year, national initiative to promote high-performance community economic development (CED) among local organizations and professionals across Canada. Funded by The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation and operating out of CSTIER (the Centre for Study in Training, Investment and Economic Restructuring) at Carleton University in Ottawa, CEDTAP will support small and medium-sized technical assistance assignments (worth $5,000 to $25,000) for and with local organizations that are building community as a means to economic development. These assignments are intended to strengthen communities that are organizing themselves to create and retain jobs, develop local enterprise, and enhance local self-reliance -- especially those communities and groups that have been economically or socially disadvantaged. The program aims to assist 125 communities across Canada by 2001. Empowering Communities The CEDTAP approach enables communities to select the planning, technical assistance (TA) and training that they decide is most timely and suitable. The program empowers communities to design and manage customized interventions which suit their own needs, and which draw on proven CED expertise and tools from anywhere in Canada. Professional resources will be selected from a pre-established directory, and a mix or "hybrid" of TA providers may be proposed by communities for assignments. Communities will participate as full partners in planning, implementing and evaluating specific technical assistance assignments and they will share costs with CEDTAP for technical assistance and training. Program Approach Assignments at the community level may involve face-to-face consultations with providers, "distance consultation" via telephone, fax, or e-mail, training workshops, study-tour exposures to other communities and projects, and other approaches. Activities could include community and business planning, marketing, financing, enterprise management, investment mechanisms, institution-building, human resource development, board development, trade opportunities, information technology, and other areas. CEDTAP's role will be to maintain the provider directory, initiate or facilitate discussions between providers and communities when necessary, act as a clearing house for lessons learned and good practice, track and disseminate innovations generated by program participants, and monitor the achievement of project results. All of this is intended to strengthen and mainstream CED nationally and to promote a positive policy environment for CED in the longer term. How to Get Involved Communities and groups across the country are invited to send expressions of interest, beginning in mid-January 1998. Eligible proponents include non-profit community development corporations, community loan funds, social sector agencies, women's organizations and other not-for-profit associations and groups. Groups need not be legal entities to submit an expression of interest, although they will need a reference or "guarantor". There is no deadline for community proposals. They will be considered on a continuing basis throughout the year, based on the extent to which they show potential for significant employment, economic and social impacts in regions and communities that have traditionally been marginalized. Other criteria, such as participation and financial contribution, are also key. If you are a CED technical assistance provider there are a number of ways in which you can become involved in CEDTAP. If you would like to submit a proposal for the provision of TA services in future, please contact the CEDTAP Secretariat for more information on program requirements and criteria for providers. Not only should providers have a proven track record, but CEDTAP seeks to ensure representation from each region of the country, as well as a range of sectoral and technical expertise, institutional structure and language capability. In the interim, we can register you as a CEDTAP associate, and invite you to stay involved with the program through contributing to and receiving our bulletin, sharing lessons learned and innovations with other providers, and participating in provider meetings. Staying in Touch For further information on the program, or to receive the directory of technical assistance providers and guidelines for submitting an expression of interest, please contact: Ms. Barbara Levine Coordinator Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program Centre for the Study of Training, Investment and Economic Restructuring Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Room 214 Social Science Research Building Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Phone: (613) 520-2600-1588 Fax: (613) 520-3561 E-Mail: cstier@carleton.ca _________________________________ Rochelle Owen 5th Floor, Queen Square 45 Alderney Drive Dartmouth, N.S. B2Y 2N6 902-426-2578 (ph) 902-426-2062 (fax) http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/action21/home.html
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