Communities across Canada are looking for new ways to build resilient local economies, reduce poverty, and strengthen community wellbeing to create more equitable futures. Community Wealth Building offers a practical, place-based approach to achieving these goals.
Community Wealth Building (CWB) explores how communities can retain, recirculate, and generate wealth. CWB helps communities strengthen local ownership, steward community assets, and ensure that local people have a greater stake in the wealth created where they live. By shifting from extractive economic models toward more inclusive and democratic approaches, communities can build local resilience, increase social inclusion, and create lasting community benefit.
Explore the principles, history, and growing momentum behind Community Wealth Building, and discover why communities across Canada are adopting this approach to strengthen local economies, build resilience, and reduce poverty.
This webinar is part of a six-part series on Community Wealth Building. View the webinar series here
Jen Casorso, Managing Director, EndPovertyEdmonton
Jorge Garza, Director, Networks for Change. Tamarack Institute
Robin Wisener, Director, Community Wealth Building, Tamarack Institute