BALTA Social Economy Reader: Recent submissions
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Brain Food: How social enterprise can reshape the food system
(Making Waves, 2006)In a world of giant transnational corporations, the deck appears stacked against social enterprise in the food sectors. Getting some theory under their belts based on the idea of the social market and a commitment to ... -
Canada's Conscious Consumers: 7 consumer trends are changing the landscape of Canada's food industry
(Making Waves, 2006)This is another article on context. In this case, the key trend of "market fragmentation" is introduced and with it what the authors think is an enormous opportunity for social entrepreneurs in the food sectors. Currently, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Tree Farm…or Community Forest? Revelstoke CFC cannot hope to realise sustainable practices until provincial forest legislation changes
(Making Waves, 1996)While generally supportive of the progress made by the community-owned forest corporation in Revelstoke, according to these authors, it is not a real community forest. They claim it cannot be under provincial forest ... -
Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation: A Community Venture Repatriates Benefits from Local Public Forests
(Making Waves, 1995)Economically prostrate in the mid 1980s, the town of Revelstoke, BC has demonstrated how a small community can regain a say in its economic future. The Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC) is a community-owned ... -
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, ... -
The Cape Breton Laborers Development Company: A Case Report
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 1994)The main activity of this trade union owned non-profit company is to finance and construct affordable housing. An inspired example of social and economic solidarity at work: the resulting model became recognized well beyond ... -
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, ... -
A Strategic Mismatch: The Implications of Home Ownership Strategies for CED
(Making Waves, 2006)Affordable housing has been central to strategies of neighborhood renewal since the 1960s. But the push in federal policy away from community or co-operative initiatives in the mid 90’s and towards individual home ownership ... -
Assets, Equity, & Empowerment: At Quint, Housing Is One Part of the Community Development Equation
(Making Waves, 1998)Since its launch in 1995, Quint Development Corporation has skillfully fused local determination with outside expertise, money, & political influence. This article was written before the results were in. Since, Quint's ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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.