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The Potluck Café: Navigating the "twilight zone" of social enterprise
(Making Waves, 2004)
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 ...
Death Of A Co-op: The Quesnel Hardwood Co-Operative
(Making Waves, 2003)
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 ...
Success without Succession? Reflections on the Building and Sustaining of Social Enterprise
(Making Waves, 2006)
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, ...
What Value Social Enterprise? Understanding the success of Atira Property Management
(Making Waves, 2005)
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 ...
Canada's Conscious Consumers: 7 consumer trends are changing the landscape of Canada's food industry
(Making Waves, 2006)
This is another article on context. In this case, the key trend of "market fragmentation" is introduced and with it what the authors think is an enormous opportunity for social entrepreneurs in the food sectors.
Currently, ...
Brain Food: How social enterprise can reshape the food system
(Making Waves, 2006)
In a world of giant transnational corporations, the deck appears stacked against social enterprise in the food sectors. Getting some theory under their belts based on the idea of the social market and a commitment to ...
Serenity Funeral Service and the BALTA Profiling Tool
(2009-02-14)
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 ...
SERC 2 Bibliography
(2010-07-13)
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 ...
SERC 2: Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Economic Enterprises and Rural Revitalization in Alberta
(2010-07-13)
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 ...
SERC 2: Foundations for Rural Revitalization and the Reinsertion of Social Economy Enterprises: Examining Alberta Reports, Policies and Budget Commitments
(2010-07-13)
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 ...