LOCAL ECONOMIES

Community wealth (and health) building

Tom Lloyd Goodwin highlights three things that stood out from CLES’s final Community Wealth Building Conversation, and explains why rowing back from inclusivity would be a mistake.

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The purpose of our economy should be to generate good lives and wellbeing for all, and, in CLES's final Community Wealth Building Conversation at the end of November, we got to hear first-hand about the myriad ways in which this progressive approach to economic development is helping to deliver better health outcomes for people and communities, through the actions of key anchor institutions. Three things stood out from the conversation. 

First, there is growing evidence of impact. 

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