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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 ...
Are Outcomes The Best Outcome?
(Making Waves, 2000)
This commentary challenges the obsession with outcomes as part of the preoccupation with accountability. It recognises the need for clearly defined targets, but it argues that many crucial and equally important developments ...
Works In Progress: Keeping The Measurement Of A Community's Progress Community-Centred
(Making Waves, 2003)
Indicators are complicated and sensitive instruments, no question. So whenever they get applied to community development, there is a trade-off between technical standards and local engagement. Often (too often) that trade-off ...
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 ...
Taking the YouthBuild Challenge
(Making Waves, 2002)
Many 21st century dilemmas will defy small-scale solutions. Here's a way to scale up a hugely successful youth at risk program started in the U.S. with some innovative ways of mobilizing Credit Union financing; the aim - ...
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, ...
Food Facts: How are Canadians Experiencing the Food Wars?
(Making Waves, 2006)
Canadians have achieved unprecedented levels of efficiency in the production and distribution of food. So how come it is undermining our health and well-being? "The Food Wars” have turned Canada into a colony and a ...
Community-controlled economic development as a strategic vision for the sustainable agriculture movement
(Making Waves, 2000)
If industrial agriculture is ever to be dislodged, its opponents must achieve a strategic vision that encompasses a vast range of issues. Labour practices, pesticide reduction, farmland protection, nutrition, and consumer ...
Social Return On Investment
(Making Waves, 2000)
To show sceptics some hard evidence on your project's accomplishments, check out the Return on Investment Tool under development by the Roberts Enterprise Foundation of San Francisco. It interprets the transformative impact ...
West Chilcotin Forest Products: A joint venture defies the odds in B.C.'s troubled forest industry.
(Making Waves, 2002)
Since 1995, the inhabitants of Nimpo and Anahim lakes in the Chilcotin region of west-central British Columbia have found a way to run a logging and manufacturing business that respects First Nations traditional territory, ...