Description
This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.
Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse findings in ways which can be applied to new development initiatives, including rural grocery store retention in Kansas, socially responsible community cooperatives in Italy, preserving pubs and shops in England and Wales, serving residents with special needs in Canada, and financing basic goods and services for aging populations in Taiwan, plus other examples. The chapters explore practices and approaches used in various locations to address concerns about loss of access to essential services, making clear that this approach to financing is useful in different scenarios.
The chapters provide key insights suggesting that these approaches will be even more prevalent in the future and will be of interest to students, scholars, and community-development practitioners around the world.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Changing Uses of Community Supported Enterprises
Norman Walzer
2. Financial CSEs: Lessons from North America
Michael H. Shuman
3. Creating A Supportive Environment for Community Enterprises
Bruce F. Seifer, Rhonda Phillips, and Norman Walzer
4. Community-Owned Pubs in Great Britain: Hubs of Community Enterprise
Stephen McCusker
5. Core Community Capitals and Impact on Successful Community Development
Felix Sohnrey and Klaus Hegemann
6. St. Paul, Kansas’ City-Owned Grocery Store: A Variation of the Community Supported Enterprise Approach
David E. Procter
7. Community Engagement or Community Service? Case Study of Italian Community Co-Operatives and Networks
Michele Bianchi
8. Taiwan Community-Based Enterprise as Development Strategy Toward Community Capacity Building ChaiMei-Hsia
9. Community Led Crowdfunding Fosters Rural Prosperity and Resiliency
Jessica Brauer
10. Social Enterprise, IDD and Community Supported Enterprises in Ontario Canada
Ushnish Sengupta
11. Applications of CSE Principles
Norman Walzer and Sean Park
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