Aug 20: Community Forum Meeting on Affordable Care Act

Promoting a Just Wage Economy:What makes any given wage just or unjust?  Concerned that wages for most Americans have been flat for four decades? Worried that economic inequality between the rich and everyone else is at its most extreme since the 1920s? Wondering how to improve people's pay in an era of rising housing, health…

The Fifth Annual Community Forum on Economic Development is less than three weeks away,on Saturday, March 27, from 9 AM to 4 PM, at IU South Bend, Wiekamp Hall 1001We need your help in preparing for another successful event.

     The Community Forum for Economic Development advocates a "community-based" approach for solving the problem of vacant and abandoned properties.  We recently completed a position paper that describes this approach, "Neighbors Saving Neighborhoods."       Central to our position is the view that "the problem we are addressing involves more than empty buildings and lots.  It concerns the…

1. This week at the Urban Garden Market -  Only three more Market Saturdays for the season!  Lynn Joyce will be making beignets this Saturday, Jim will have plenty of pulled pork, and the Butternut Squash Community Garden will have a special: "$1. off for a package of six" squash, easy to store for winter…

JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 20 FOR THE 2012 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY FORUM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.       Each November, elections are held for members of our Board of Directors.  This year, up to nine members of the CFED can be elected.   Current Board members whose terms will expire but who wish to remain…

SEPTEMBER CFED MEETING TO FOCUS ON SOUTH BEND'S BUDGET PROCESS:   In May of 2013, the Community Forum sponsored a public meeting that addressed the question, "HOW DOES THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND DECIDE WHERE TO SPEND OUR MONEY?" On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, at 7 PM, we will resume the discussion at the LaSalle Branch Library (3232 W Ardmore…