B.C. - Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA): Recent submissions
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SERC 1 WorkPlan – 2007-2008 Fiscal Year
(2007-04-10)SERC 1’s mandate includes both housing and human/social services. The research priorities reflect a balance of both issues as well as several cross-cutting issues. The agreed research priorities are: 1. The role of community ... -
The Solidarity Economy in North America : An Emerging Debate - January 2007
(2007-03-03)The language of the solidarity economy is not exactly common vocabulary in Canada or the U.S. Even among practitioners and activists in community economic development, the social economy, co-operatives, economic democracy ... -
Building Community Wealth
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 2006)This book was developed and tested as a resource to accompany a full-day workshop on Social Enterprise: Assessing Readiness and Getting Started in SE, which is part of the Development Wheel project. -
Social Enterprise in Human Services and Affordable Housing
(2007-03-04)Human services and affordable housing are two constant themes in the history of CED and the social economy. This is not surprising. How we care for each other, or not, speaks centrally to the character of our social relations ... -
Concepts and Context
(2007-03-04)This first section of the book introduces key concepts, assumptions and ways of understanding the context within which CED and the social economy have evolved. While making no claim this modest beginning represents some ... -
Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Enterprise
(2007-03-04)Mark Cabaj in his “Peoples History” of CED and the Social Economy notes the fundamental and pervasive role of natural resources in the evolution of Canada’s peoples and communities.. Landscapes carved by natural forces ... -
Project C11 - Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2007-04-11)This project explores one aspect of development finance in the social economy—namely, the role of the credit union as it appears today in AB and BC. It seeks to describe and analyze a range of activities relevant to the ... -
Project C 10 - Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector
(2007-04-11)This research project will explore municipal government support of the social economy sector in a Canadian context, with an emphasis on BC, Alberta and the Prairies and Northern Ontario. This is a collaboration between ... -
Project C9-2007 - CED and Social Economy Policy Inventory in B.C. and Alberta (Phase One)
(2007-04-11)The work on policy outlined in this annex is conceived of as a first phase in an ongoing project that will extend beyond one year. In developing and implementing an inventory of federal and provincial legislation, policies, ... -
Project C7 - Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System Case Study – Phase Two:
(2007-04-11)BALTA’s aims, as reflected in the SSHRC proposal, include researching innovative practices that are achieving demonstrable results elsewhere and exploring whether such innovations can be adapted to achieve significant ... -
Project C6 - From Social Economy to Solidarity Economy: Changing Perspectives in a Volatile World (Phase Two)
(2007-04-11)Phase one of this project contrasted the Pearse conceptual formulation of the social economy with an alternative formulation called the solidarity economy. This research will document two cases, one from Chicago and another ... -
Project C5 - From Social Economy to Solidarity Economy: Changing Perspectives in a Volatile World (Phase One)
(2007-04-11)This project focuses on examining the definition of social economy being used by BALTA and critiquing its conceptual capacity to effectively guide policy and practice in a volatile and rapidly changing global context. ... -
Project C4 - Preliminary Profile of the Size and Scope of the Social Economy in Alberta and British Columbia
(2007-04-11)The purpose of project is to identify, review and analyze existing data with the objective of developing a preliminary profile of the Social Economy within Alberta and British Columbia. The profile will be comprised of ... -
Project C3 - Socio-Economic and Environmental Context, Profile and Trends for B.C. and Alberta
(2007-04-11)This project will provide a general socio-economic profile of both provinces using key economic, social, health and some environmental indicators for comparative analysis of well-being conditions in both provinces. As well, ...