Toolsets & Resources
The resources below are just the beginning — we’re actively adding more tools, insights, and resources from communities across the country.
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A Possible Future for Canada: Capitalizing Places for Resilience and Regeneration
Dark Matter Labs & ShorefastDark Matter Labs explores how Shorefast, in partnership with Fogo Islanders, are building a regenerative economy on the island through an iterative model of resource allocation that recognizes the challenges and opportunities of the local context, makes visible the intrinsic value of place, invests in the island’s collective self-awareness, creates the conditions for local agency, and builds demand and supply as a tool of resilience and regeneration.Learn More
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CBC’s The Current with Matt Galloway: Episode with Zita Cobb
Tune in to this recent episode from CBC's The Current with Matt Galloway to hear from our Founder and CEO, Zita Cobb. Zita and...
Putting Money in Its Place
This report, "Harnessing the Power of Financial Capital to Create Economic Opportunity in Local Communities" summarizes the insights and learnings from the initial Money...
A Possible Future for Canada: Capitalizing Places for Resilience and Regeneration
Dark Matter Labs explores how Shorefast, in partnership with Fogo Islanders, are building a regenerative economy on the island through an iterative model of...
Promising and Emerging Practices
This report, authored by St.
“Place” Study: Harvard Business School
The Harvard Business School's detailed case...
A Policy Agenda for Place
Much of Canada’s public policy discussion is implicitly or explicitly focused on place, but policy makers do not always think about communities when designing...
Community Economies Pilot Report
The Pilot was a year-long pan-Canadian initiative that Shorefast launched in July 2021 to answer the question “How do we strengthen community economies?"
Place Study: Memorial University
Memorial University's PLACE Framework case study thoroughly examines Shorefast's place-based approach in action, offering concrete evidence of how our model is transforming Fogo Island's...
Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise
Academics and practitioners introduce the PLACE Framework as a new approach for exploring how place-based social enterprises reimagine and revitalize communities.
Around the world,...
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