Price alone is not telling the full story. Information about “where the money goes” is rarely available at the point of purchase. Economic Nutrition...

Shorefast is a registered charity that is forging a new path at the intersection of business, philanthropy, and community economic development. All our business...

Shorefast as a model for locally driven economic development has been globally recognized as a viable case study for use in communities around the...

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...

This report, "Harnessing the Power of Financial Capital to Create Economic Opportunity in Local Communities" summarizes the insights and learnings from the initial Money...

Dark Matter Labs explores how Shorefast, in partnership with Fogo Islanders, are building a regenerative economy on the island through an iterative model of...

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The Harvard Business School's detailed case...

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...

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?"

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...

Strengthening rural innovation is especially important in Canada because rural regions are dually impacted by demographic change, with slower population growth and an ageing...

Economic development is evolving. Where building the economy was once largely the purview of businesses and governments, communities are increasingly taking action to build...

Academics and practitioners introduce the PLACE Framework as a new approach for exploring how place-based social enterprises reimagine and revitalize communities.

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The "Actors in the Mixed Economy" resource is a visual tool created by Shorefast to map the key institutions, organizations, and other actors that...

Michigan State University's detailed case study "A model for rural development: an experiment from Fogo Island, Newfoundland" offers an in-depth explanation of the Fogo...