Human services and affordable housing are two constant themes in the history of CED and the social economy. This is not surprising. How we care for each other, or not, speaks centrally to the character of our social relations ...

For nearly a generation now, Montréal's Le Boulot vers ... has been helping young people make the break from poverty, alienation, and dependency, and discover instead a world of opportunity. Most often referred to as a ...

Since 2001, a small shop in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been serving 1000s of meals to some of the city's most sick and isolated residents, while training and employing others in food preparation. Now, after three ...

Struggling to survive drastic restructuring in BC's forest industry, small-time harvesters and processors in Quesnel, BC combined forces. They created a co-op to channel "nuisance" birch and aspen into hardwood markets in ...

Inner City Development Inc. was established in the summer of 2002 to provide good jobs to people in Winnipeg’s inner city who live in poverty and who are marginalized by systemic discrimination. For more than four years, ...

A charity that manages transition houses in B.C.'s lower mainland is in the curious position of both making and breaking the case for social enterprise. Atira Women's Resource Society has found itself well-positioned to ...

There's a driving desire in this country right now for deep change to the way we live and govern ourselves. I see it ion the women's movement, the co-op movement, the environmental movement, in labour, in community economic ...

This case study of Serenity Funeral Service, a social enterprise in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was done as a class project for a course in Corporate Social responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship taught by Mark Anielski ...

This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ...

This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ...