New Dawn Enterprises Ltd.
Organization profile published 1982

http://newdawn.ca/
Year Published:  1982
Resource Type:  Organization
Cx Number:  CX2667

Abstract: 
NEW DAWN ENTERPRISES founded in 1976, is a form of community development corporation working to find practical solutions to both economic and social problems in Cape Breton. In seeking to mobilize government and voluntary resources within a non-profit framework. NEW DAWN has subdivided itself into several related organizations which deal with different problems. NEW DAWN lists three criteria for initiating a project: Is there a real need not being met? Are the resources available to get the job done? Will the project contribute to a comprehensive development of the community?

One important area that NEW DAWN has tackled is housing. The Cape Breton Association for Co-op Development, a company of NEW DAWN ENTERPRISES, owns eighteen residential buildings in Sydney, Glace Bay, and New Waterford. These comprise of 78 apartments and/or single family units, 24 of which are new. They are also in the process of constructing new buildings that will have at least 50 apartments. A separate project houses 27 senior citizens and a group home for mental patients. Another NEW DAWN housing-initiated project was a grant-funded programme which provides free labour for home repairs to senior citizens, with a total of 300 homes being repaired.

NEW DAWN's motto is"Business for People", symbolizing their belief that control NEW DAWN's operations should rest with those for whom they are intended - "the people of the community". "Who is better qualified", asks NEW DAWN, "to defing the needs of their community than the citizens themselves?"

This abstract was published in the Connexions Digest in 1982.
See also CX2802, CX252.