The acronym PLACE signifies five principles for community development that emerged from a  SSHRC-funded research project on Shorefast's place-based approach to social enterprise on Fogo Island, N.L. It also evokes the primary condition for rural renewal: a deep and abiding love of place.

More information:

2024

• January 14, 2024: How to strengthen community resilience in a world plagued by crises (The Conversation)

2023

• December 2023: Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise  

2022

• October 14, 2022: Learning about what makes communities survive, AND thrive. Academic research is focusing on the resilience of communities here in Newfoundland and Labrador (CBC News)

2020

• April 30, 2020: Well positioned: The role of social enterprise in a post-pandemic N.L.

2019

• June 28: Rebuilding community through social innovation: A PLACE model
  (Nova School of Business and Economics)
  In Portuguese
• May 17: Imagination, co-operation help secure future in Atlantic Canada’s small towns (The Chronicle Herald)
• March 25: Harris Centre Memorial presents: The future of rural development
• March 17: What can Fogo teach us about revitalizing rural economies and culture? (CBC News)
• Feb. 12: Social enterprise and community development (Rural Routes podcast)
• Feb. 6: Rebuilding community through social innovation: A PLACE model (Cambridge Social Innovation Blog)
• Jan. 30: Rural social enterprises (VOCM Open Line)
• Jan. 25: Op-ed: Strengthening Newfoundland and Labrador through social enterprise: A ‘PLACE’ model
• Jan. 23: Community leader tells a new story about Newfoundland after news article on decline (Rural Resilience News)
• Jan. 3: The Broadcast with Jane Adey (CBC News)

2018

• Dec. 11: ‘It offers hope:’ Memorial researchers devise lessons from Shorefast to aid rural communities
• Nov. 16: Harris Centre Memorial presents: Social enterprise for community economic development

Photo credit: Paddy Barry