Projects currently being developed or implemented via the Community Involvement Project working groups:

NRE Food X Change
NRE Good Food Box
Farmers and Families Program
CIP Capacity Building and Network Support for Self-Reliance Projects
CIP Website and Network Communications Project
CIP Emergency and Social Planning Communications Project
CIP Business Partner Relationships Project
CIP Not-for-Profit Partner Relations Project
CIP Food Security Communications Initiative
CIP Service Sector Relationship Building Project
CIP Urban Agricultural Project -- Backyard and Apartment Growers Network -- Seed Savers Network, Registry and Exchange
Global Awareness Network -- Education Through Research
Green Communities Environmental Action Centre -- Participation Project
World Citizens -- Action Alert Stations
Pedal Power Bikes Project (The "Backabush" sound system)
Intertribal Connections Society
Musicians Co-op -- Sustainable Learning Program
CIP-Urban Agriculture Project -- Backyard Appropriate Technology Project
CIP-Urban Agriculture Project -- Community Greenhouse Supermarket
Local Alternative Currency Project
Home-Based Economy Information Service
CIP Funding Research Assistance Project
CIP New Project Development
CIP Issues Research -- Global Support for Program Sustainability / Legal and Policy Research
CIP Creative Community Funding Initiatives -- Research and Communications Project
CIP Proposal Writing Support and Training
CIP "The Young and the Wise" -- Involved in business and the community together! (Internship Program and Business Research Services)
CIP Project Management Support Initiative
Fundraising Events "Seed Money" Loan Pool
Sustainable Cities Model
Local Training Centre for Self-Reliance and Global Governance (Partner Contributions Research)
CIP Community Agriculture -- Farmer Support Project
Get Ready Nanaimo -- Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Facilitation
FIRA's Neighbourhood House (and Food Growing Garden Demonstration Site)
Food Squirrels Gleaning Assistance Project
Farmwatchers Kids Newscast Program
CIP Grassroots Needs Assessment Working Groups
CIP Volunteer Program Facilitator Training
CIP Volunteer Program Freestore and Honourarium Program
CIP Newsnet -- Media Relations and Alternate Press
Grassroots (People-centered) Development Foundation of Vancouver Island
Food Equipment and Resource Lending Library
Food Exchanges (through Good Food Exchange)
Co-op Grown Foodbank Restaurant and Edible Gardens
Global Classroom Multicultural Initiative
CIP In-kind Donations Bank
CIP Capital Needs Program
CIP Core Operations Support Program
MRE Alternative Media Research Project
Changes (34 projects)
CIP Neighbourhood-Centered Development Projects
CIP Demolition Services Set-Up Project
CIP Grassroots Revenue Generation Project (Income Streams Research)
CIP Sustainable Neighbourhoods Society
CIP Local Sustainable Economics Research
Farmers and Families (11 projects)
CIP One on One Passions (Research / Exploration)
CIP Leadership Initiative -- Encouraging in the School System
CIP One on One Business Follow-Through Program Design
CIP Practicum Program (and Green Communities Student Link)
CIP Not-for-Profit -- One Stop Shop
CIP Survey of Businesses
CIP Survey of Volunteer Interests
CIP Speakers Bureau
CIP Food Projects -- Start Up -- 38 Volunteer Projects
CIP Grow a Row
CIP "Homegrown" -- Gardener Training and Support Project (Urban Agriculture)
CIP Edible Pathways (under Urban Agriculture)
CIP Eco-Forestry Support and Research Agro-Forestry / Indigenous Food Research and Training
Foodshare and NRE -- Food Runners
Global Village Access Centre
Neighbourhood Technology Research Institute
CIP Structures and Frameworks Research
CIP Socially Responsible Business Network Development
Free the Children

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