Case study of the Working Centre in Kitchener provides real-world insights for community development
Focuses on decentralized, integrated service structures for scalable social inclusion
Discusses social enterprise approaches to creating affordable community tools
Highlights equal salary policies for diverse stakeholder groups to foster inclusivity
Offers practical methods to move beyond poverty relief into sustainable community building
Summarized by Shop
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively constitute up to 3
