We are CEDEC: a leader in stimulating economic growth and developing Canadian communities.
CEDEC (Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation) helps communities achieve sustainable economic prosperity by identifying and capitalizing on the strongest opportunities for growth and investment.
We create partnerships across the public, private, and civil society sectors that leverage pooled resources and expertise. We foster innovation and creativity, thereby stimulating economic development. We provide integrated and coordinated leadership for initiatives and actively contribute at every stage until completion: from idea to action, and from action to results.
Our objectives are to help create jobs, enhance workforce skills, build and grow businesses, and increase investment.
How We Do It
CEDEC brings over twenty years of on-the-ground experience and a team with decades of combined expertise and knowledge in economic development.
CEDEC’s breadth and depth of knowledge provide unique, data-driven, and experiential insights. This allows us to build and scale future-ready businesses, expand local, regional, national, and international trade, enhance workforce skills, create jobs, and stimulate investment from the public, private, and civil society (PPCS) sectors into viable initiatives.
As a leader in collaborative economic development, we utilize our Collaborative Economic Development Model (CEDM) to:
Bring together, negotiate, facilitate, and coordinate multisectoral partnerships and collaborations (MSPCs).
Identify and assess community assets, strengths, and opportunities for community economic development.
Conduct research and economic analysis relevant to the community.
Enable tracking and measurement of results.
Our CEDM is opportunity-driven. It helps communities identify and leverage their unique advantages, assets, and strengths to stimulate economic innovation, growth, and development. This allows them to achieve sustainable economic success through workforce development and community investment.
We foster intentional collaboration that inspires people to work for one another to increase economic activity.
