Browsing Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) Series by Issue Date
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Rooming House: Tenant-Landlord and Community Cooperation, Spence Neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2005-03-01)This project examined the potential for adapting the existing West Broadway TLC principles and practices to the rooming house stock in the Spence neighbourhood. -
Enhancing Cultural Capital: The Arts and Community Development in Winnipeg
(2005-09-17)This research highlights the contribution that community-based arts organizations are making in Winnipeg ‘s inner city. The project reveals that there is not only a wealth of artistic and cultural resources in the inner ... -
Enabling Policy Environments for Co-operative Development: A Comparative Experience
(2008)This research project will identify effective tax policy models and strategies of policy advancement for the co-operative sector. The project will draw on a comparative analysis of tax models from Spain (Mondragon Co-op) ... -
The Rooming Houses of Furby Street
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)This magazine is part of a much larger historical study, Living on Furby, Narratives ofHome. The larger study is a detailed history of one block of Furby, between Portage and Broadway, from its beginnings to the present ... -
Living on Furby: Narratives of Home, Winnipeg Manitoba , 1880-2005
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)Explores neighbourhood change and experiences of home among the residents of one city block in what has become part of the inner-city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. -
Sustainable Financing for the Social Economy, Phases 1 and 2
(2008-01-01)This 2 phase project intends to assist organizations involved in financing social enterprises to develop and deliver financial products and services that meet the various long- and short-term financing needs of this client group. -
The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Development: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context
(2008-01-01)This Participatory Action Research project will engage community economic development and social economy actors in Manitoba in identifying policy priorities that will support the sector in building stronger communities and ... -
Enhancing and Linking Ethnocultural Organizations and Communities in Rural Manitoba: A Focus on Brandon and Steinbach
(2009)Developing strong, resourceful ethnocultural organizations that can meet newcomers and members’ needs impacts the successful settlement and retention of immigrants in communities. Ethnocultural organizations must be ... -
Community-Based Planning: Engagement, Collaboration and Meaningful Participation in the Creation of Neighbourhood Plans
(2010)Community Development is a process by which people in communities work together to design a development process improving quality of life for citizens. To encourage community cohesion and effective synergies which mitigate ... -
The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course
(2010-01-01)This research project aims to design a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a “Management of Cooperatives” course that will be offered at the University of Winnipeg (Faculty of Business and Economics) in the ... -
Understanding and Promoting Effective Partnerships for CED: A Case Study of SEED Winnipeg’s Partnerships
(2010-01-01)Partnerships are often assumed to be a necessary, and indeed an intrinsically useful, component of CED. But partnerships can be difficult to maintain and sometimes can constrain effective CED. This case study will examine ... -
Building a Federal Policy Framework and Program in Support of Community Economic Development
(2011)This report will provide an overview and analysis of the Province of Manitoba’s CED Policy Framework and Neighbourhoods Alive! program. The report will conclude by recommending, based on the Manitoba experience, how a ... -
Eat Where you Live
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Finding Our Way Home: Housing Options in Inner-City Winnipeg for People with Disabilities Who Are Dying
This project encompassed three pertinent social issues: the lack of safe, affordable, available and accessible inner city Winnipeg housing; the lack of supports available for people living in the core area experiencing end ... -
Building Community Capacity in Winnipeg's Inner City: Exploring The Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations, Community Summary
This report explores community development and adult education with inner city residents who sit on boards of directors of non-profit organizations - in particular licensed childcare facilities, women’s centers and family ... -
Shared Responsibility: Building Healthy Communities in Winnipeg's North End
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of inner-city residents and service providers and represent their ideas about building healthy communities. The term “inner city” is often associated with a variety ... -
Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance - Summer Institute, Course Outline: "What Makes a Good Urban Neighbourhood"
This is the outline for a course given as part of the 2005 WIRA Summer Institute. Course content is organized around a number of broad thematic areas related to neighbourhood studies. Themes include: defining the inner ... -
Building the Economy on Community Capacities: the Spence Neighbourhood
The objectives of the Capacity Inventory Project were to identify capacities of residents of the Spence Neighbourhood; to develop a system connecting the capacity of residents and community- based organizations to organizations ... -
“There Are No Banks Here” Financial & Insurance Exclusion in Winnipeg’s North End
Financial exclusion is a matter of growing concern in Canada considering the decline in the number of mainstream bank branches in some inner-cities and the concurrent rise in the number of fringe banks. This study reports ... -
An Assessment of STD/HIV Prevention Health Care and Youth Service in Winnipeg: The Youth and STD/HIV Prevention Project
The aim of this study was to identify current STD resources and services in Winnipeg and to identify barriers hindering the provision of STD prevention by health care and youth service providers. The study also examined ...