Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) Series: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Eat Where you Live
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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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
Winnipeg Quality of Life Project Phase One Report
This project addresses the lack of neighbourhood statistical data and survey information on the quality of life in the inner city available to community groups. Many organizations and individuals in Winnipeg’s inner city ... -
Housing Intervention and Neighbourhood Development: Harnessing Change in West Broadway
During the period leading to the early 1990s the West Broadway area of inner city Winnipeg experienced many signs of neighbourhood decline, such as residential fires, housing abandonment and structural deterioration. From ... -
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 ... -
Urban Dakota: Quality of Life Indicators Project, Phase 1 Final Report
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Research and Policy Development (RPD) Unit applied to the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) to examine the urban experience of two of the First Peoples in central Canada – ... -
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 ... -
Wnnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance - Summer Institute, Course Assignment: "What Makes a Good Urban Neighbourhood?"
This is the outline for a course given as part of the 2004 WIRA Summer Institute. The assignment was to produce a 20-item annotated bibliography in APA format with introduction and conclusion on course-relevant readings. -
“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 ... -
Male Reading Teachers: Effects on Inner-city Boys
Eighteen inner-city first and second grade boys participated in a pilot study on the effect of sex of reading teacher on boys’ attitudes toward and performance in reading. Each boy participated with either a male or a ... -
A Profile of Income Assistance Recipients in Winnipeg’s Inner City
The objective of this study is to examine the experiences of welfare recipients with the welfare bureaucracy in the city of Winnipeg. For many inner city residents some form of income assistance is a vital part of their ...
