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Power Point Presentation for Congress 2008. Sustainability, the Social economy, and the Eco-Social Crisis
(2009-01-05)
Slide Show of paper
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy in Western Canada
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-11)
Community organizations in what is now called the social economy have been an important part of Canadian economic and community development for generations. Local communities from coast to coast to coast have organized ...
Mapping Social Enterprise in Sunnyside-Hillhurst
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-11)
This research, led by Dr. Noel Keough of the University of Calgary and conducted by Master's in Environmental Design student, Celia Lee, has mapped the social economy at a neighbourhood level in one Calgary (Alberta, Canada) ...
The Nonprofit Sector Capital Market in BC and Alberta
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-05)
This paper gives an overview of the Canadian nonprofit capital market, focusing on the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors, including the users of nonprofit capital, the nonprofit capital investors, and the financial ...
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 ...
Sustainability, the Social Economy, and the Eco-social Crisis: Traveling Concepts and Bridging Fields
(2009-01-05)
Current global issues such as climate change and peak oil have brought attention to the severity and complexity of our eco-social crisis and called for local action and community-based solutions. There is a need for middle ...
Credit Unions and the Social Economy: Being Competitive and Building Capacity
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-09)
The credit union sector occupies a significant place in both Alberta and British Columbia and credit unions are a prominent element of the social economy in the two provinces. This report examines the results of research ...
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy and Rural Community Re-investment
(2009-04-06)
This proposal/plan documetns a research project that examines the role of credit unions in supporting the social economy and is a second stage of research building on SERC 3’s research project C11. At the same time, this ...
Definition and Measurement of the Social Economy: Continuous Construct or Dichotomous Variable?
(2009-11-24)
The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. This report to BALTA's 2009 symposium provides an update on ...
SeikatsuConsumer Coop: Scaling up food system transformation?
(2009-11-26)
This presentation was given at the Co-operatives and Local Food Infrastructure conference hosted by Alberta Agriculture and Food on November 26, 2009. It presents research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research ...