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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 ...
The Emilian Model - Profile of a Co-operative Economy
(2007-09-18)
Restakis, John John is a co-investigator in the BALTA node and he is the
director of a partner organization, the BC Co-operative Association.
Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy that is among the most economically ...
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
(2007-08-21)
The idea of a web of supports being of central importance to the revitalization and renewal of a particular place, or to the
development of social enterprises, has been amply illustrated in several of the contributions ...
Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools
(2007-08-21)
Tracking progress is easy to say and hard to do. It becomes even harder in an era when tracking progress and
accountability have often been morphed into rigid patterns of bean counting. People working in the trenches are ...
Co-ops, the social economy, and CED in Quebec
(Making Waves, 2001)
Understanding the relationship between CED and the co-operative movement in Quebec
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...