B.C. - Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA): Recent submissions
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Revolution Within A Revolution: Québec's experiment with co-operative health care & social service delivery
(Making Waves, 2003)Québec's decade of experimentation with health care and social service co-operatives has given rise to a reconfiguration of the actors in the health system. No longer do people talk about a system with two actors. Rather ... -
A Day In The Life Of Le Boulot Vers
(Making Waves, 2004)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 ... -
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 ... -
Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace
(Making Waves, 2003)Scale and markets notwithstanding, Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York City) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia) have plenty to teach Canada's co-operators and other CED activists. Kreiner challenges CED ... -
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 - ... -
The Root of the Matter: Insiders Guide to Community Renewal #1
(Making Waves, 2004)A graphic history of Community Renewal that discusses how the economy became separated from society, and what we can do about it. -
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 ... -
Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You
(Making Waves, 2006)How expensive energy will change community practice. -
New Synergies: The Co-operative Movement, CED, and the Social Economy
(Making Waves, 2004)It is said that "at the core of every co-ops history is an unmet need." -
Introduction to SE Reader
(2007-07-20)The wide ranging articles in this volume engage us in the critical reflections and learning of individuals, groups, organizations, enterprises and institutions that are in the trenches, actors and researchers who believe ... -
Faith Based Support for CED: God's call for Justice
(Making Waves, 2001)Karl Polanyi did not look upon the reconstruction of society as primarily a political task that could be achieved by a government with socialist ideas. Reconstruction had to be social. -
Co-ops, the social economy, and CED in Quebec
(Making Waves, 2001)Understanding the relationship between CED and the co-operative movement in Quebec -
CED & the Social Economy
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Building a Solidarity Economy in the 21st Century
(Newsletter of the North American Network for the Solidarity Economy, 2004)"If we don't set out a stronger theoretical base for our work, if the movements we build are simply pragmatic & without a sound intellectual base, we will not succeed in changing hearts and minds." Pat Conaty -
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 ... -
Project B2-2007 Sustainability and the Social Economy
(2007-04-11)This project will examine the theoretical and practical implications of socio-ecological questions for the social economy or solidarity economy. The initial proposal is three parallel avenues of research: 1) a critical ... -
SERC 2 WorkPlan The Social Economy in Rural Revitalization and Development
(2007-04-10)To explore and understand the social economy in relation to natural resources and sustainable rural development in order to: • increase awareness; • identify and build capacity; • effect policy to scale up 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 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 ...