PLACE Framework
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.
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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
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
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