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Fontan, Jean-Marc; Shragge, Eric – Community Development Journal, 1996
A community restaurant begun in Montreal by 12 welfare recipients has provided jobs and inexpensive meals and served community interests. It attempts to integrate social and economic development, operating not primarily as a job training program but as a community-based, socially useful business. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Programs, Economic Development, Foreign Countries