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The Oregon Benchmarks: Oregonians Are Getting Results From This Approach To Governance. Can We Too?
(Making Waves, 2001)When the ends are in sight - and measurable - the means are less divisive. Thanks to a focus on specific outcomes for policy, Oregon is building a culture of collaboration and learning between sectors, regions, and interest ... -
Participatory Action-Oriented Design as a Catalyst for a Canadian Cooperative Housing Renaissance
(2010-07-11)This presentation explores the results of a participatory action research process undertaken as part of BALTA research project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach. The project involved a team of ... -
Partnership Development Project – Research on Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Memorandum of Understanding for BALTA Partners
(2012-12-03)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is launching a new research program called Scaling Innovation for Sustainability - also known as the Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to ... -
Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You
(Making Waves, 2006)How expensive energy will change community practice. -
Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development
(Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002)This report defines the language of outcomes, indicators, and performance measures and then summarizes a review of applications of several strategies and tools for tracking progress that have been developed since the late ... -
Pioneer Human Services: Changing Lives & Changing How Nonprofits Do Business
(Making Waves, 2000)How entrepreneurial can a nonprofit get? Pioneer Human Services, based in Seattle, exemplifies the integration of the enterprise spirit with services to assist the marginalized, in this case, counseling, housing, and ... -
Place-based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada
(Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2005-03)To inform the efforts to address this new policy challenge now under way across Canada, this paper explores experiences in Britain, Europe and the United States. Governments there started earlier than Canada and have ... -
Plotting the Future of Food: Putting ecologically-driven, community-based policy at the heart of Canada’s food economy
(Making Waves, 2006)Amidst the rising acrimony over how we expect to feed ourselves in the next 50 years, three main schools of thought and strategy emerge. Two remain devoted to technological innovation, driven by corporate investment and ... -
Policy for Adding New Partners and Participants to the BALTA Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project
(2012-12-03)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is launching a new research program called Scaling Innovation for Sustainability. The initial phase (2012-2014) is a development phase to develop the framework and ... -
The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial System Changes to Support Societal Sustainability
(2013-01-21)The political economy of the current financial system is the context out of which alternatives are being forged. Changes to the privatized debt-based monetary system, expansion of co-operative and publicly owned finance ... -
The Political Imperative: Civil Society and the Politics of Empowerment
(Making Waves, 2004)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 ... -
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 ... -
Power Point Presentation for Congress 2008. Sustainability, the Social economy, and the Eco-Social Crisis
(2009-01-05)Slide Show of paper -
Preliminary Profile of the Size and Scope of the Social Economy in Alberta and British Columbia
(2010-09-14)Using existing data, mainly of a statistical nature, this report provides a preliminary profile of the social economy and social economy organizations in the two Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Aggregate ... -
Procurement Policy and Market Development for the Social Economy: Expanding the Market Opportunities for Social Enterprise, Co-operatives, and Other Social Economy Businesses
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA research project (C18) examining procurement policy and market development for the social ... -
Project A1-2007 Innovative Use of Housing Co-operative Assets
(2007-04-10)The “Innovative Use of Housing Co-operative Assets” project consists of an examination of the use of mortgage free housing co-op assets to leverage funding or financing for further co-op housing and for other social economy ... -
Project A2-2007 Co-operative Models of Social Care
(2007-04-10)The project will examine the specific role played by co-operatives in the design and delivery of social care. In recent years, there has been a major shift both in public policy and in public expectations concerning the ... -
Project A3-2007 The Non-Profit Sector Capital Market in B.C. and Alberta
(2007-09-20)This research project will explore the non-profit sector capital market in B.C. and Alberta with a focus on the role that this market can play in developing, supporting and strengthening social economy organizations. -
Project A4-2007 Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy
(2007-04-10)The goal of this project is to document the role faith-based organizations play in the social economy in Alberta and B.C., and to investigate ways in which this role can be strengthened and expanded in the future. This ... -
Project B1 - Understanding the role of the social economy in advancing rural revitalization and development.
(2007-04-10)This project will build upon the broad literature review currently being conducted for SERC II, and will focus on the role that social enterprises in specific resource sectors play in sustaining and revitalizing rural ...