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SFU's Certificate Program for Community Economic Development Simon Fraser University (SFU) is looking for candidates for the 2016/17 Certificate Program for Community Economic Development. The next program runs from October 2016 to May 2017 and applications are being accepted until June 30, 2016.

SFU’s Certificate Program for Community Economic Development empowers you to help build a sustainable, local economy.

They offer a hands-on learning environment and a unique opportunity to grow your professional networks. The program is part-time over eights months. There are 2 one-week residencies in Vancouver, with the rest of the program delivered in a live, interactive, online classroom.

The CED program instructors are accomplished practitioners that share your passion for change and community development, want you to succeed and are genuinely eager to help you get there.

Their courses are relevant, and practical, whether you are out in your community finding out about local inititiatives, or working on projects with others in your cohort. Throughout the program, they focus on skill-building, personal growth and developing leadership skills.

When you join SFU’s CED program, you join a network of people committed to building strong, sustainable local economies. The program design intentionally facilitates the building and maintaining of relationships. Your network can be your strongest resource and so the SFU CED program helps students & alumni connect through events, newsletters and social media.

Every year, they have a wide mix of students: community builders, social workers, social entrepreneurs, communicators, community economic developers and other movers and shakers of all different stripes.

When selecting their cohort, attitude and experience matter most. They are seeking applicants who want to make positive change in their communities. If this sounds like you, then apply today!

Apply at www.sfu.cacscdced

Communities are at the heart of what CCEDNet peeps do. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that when you put 230 community champions together over three days, you get one heck of a community.

Hosted by CCEDNet member CEDEC, ECONOUS2016 was the first national CED conference in several years, so there was a lot of catching up to do. Interest was high. Participants came from nearly every province and territory (next time, Nunavut!) and an amazing cross-section of backgrounds. A glimpse at some of the organizations represented gives you an idea.

Leading up to the conference, a tremendous amount of preparation went into the conference design. We had an excellent Program Committee from diverse sectors who advised on speaker and workshop selection, support from Michelle Holliday and Michael Jones on engagement strategies, and an important preliminary meeting of thought leaders to identify key questions for the event. The report of that meeting set the stage for ECONOUS2016, focusing our three days around three guiding questions:

What can we celebrate and carry forward in CED?
What strategic opportunities are before us now?
What’s next for CED and what stewardship is needed?

To begin with the theme of celebration, having Rankin MacSween deliver the opening keynote was a natural fit. Rankin is CEO of New Dawn Enterprises in Sydney, Nova Scotia — Canada’s first community economic development organization — which is marking it’s 40^th anniversary this year. Definitely a milestone to celebrate! Rankin is a masterful storyteller, and his opening keynote emphasized the principles that have guided New Dawn Enterprises over its 40-year journey: faith, hope and freedom. But being one of the leaders of CED in Canada does not mean it’s always easy. Rankin’s tale of New Dawn’s near death experience in an epic battle with the federal government over a development project was sobering. New Dawn’s survival and subsequent success is a lesson in persistence and resiliency.

That lesson is also apt for CED in Canada more broadly. The decades since CED came to Canada have been ones of smaller government and growing individualism. In this context, the tremendously diverse scope of community-led innovation presented in workshops at the conference is all the more impressive.

And it is encouraging to hear that the highest-levels of policy-making recognize the need for greater community leadership. In his remarks to the conference, Angel Gurría, the Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development couldn’t be clearer: “The only way we can promote inclusive and sustainable growth is by working with our local communities. Development is always a bottom-up process.”

Thursday’s morning plenary considered the many strategic opportunities facing CED currently. Renowned McGill management professor Henry Mintzberg spoke of the need not just for leadership, but ‘communityship’ and rebalancing society with a strong ‘plural’ sector. Jonathan Rosenthal of the New Economy Coalition recognized the need to reweave the fabric of our human connections, and heal the historical wounds of ‘othering’. Nancy Neamtan of the Chantier de l’économie sociale in Québec emphasized the huge potential of creating socially-oriented, community-rooted businesses, and Laure Waridel of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Sustainable Development Operationalization suggested that CED can help redefine the logic of development to one that prioritizes human well-being in a viable ecosystem.

The Friday morning panel was a high point for many. A frank discussion on what’s next for CED between two pioneers in the field and three passionate newer voices produced a human ‘ice cream sandwich’ when the young Algonquin entrepreneur Marie-Cécile Nottaway noticed the very pale-skinned Mike Lewis was seated between herself and first generation Canadian Nadia Kidwai. Questions of diversity and inclusion, as well as the language and framing we use to speak about CED, created some very important and heartfelt moments on stage. Laurent Lessard, from the student housing social enterprise UTILE, suggested that CED should assert itself as a development approach with ‘trickle up’ economics to replace the failings of the trickle down model. Marie-Cécile revealed that she is in business for her family and her community, and that ‘it takes a community to raise a business.’ The panel closed with call to reach more diverse audiences with the CED message.

Carol Anne Hilton’s keynote on #indigenomics was a powerful illustration of how that is already happening. An idea that originated as a Twitter hashtag, Carol Anne explained the rationale that led to its creation: because new thinking is required, new language is needed that can provide a platform for understanding, bringing new perspectives and expanding awareness. With calls for greater responsibility in economic development and a rapidly evolving legal framework for Canada’s Indigenous peoples, #indigenomics reminds us of the ‘WHY’ – using indigenous wisdom to lead us to economic success.

ECONOUS2016 identified several key opportunities for community leaders. Two of those were mentioned by Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, in his remarks to the conference. He called for conference participants’ input on two important federal government initiatives: a social innovation and social finance strategy, and a national poverty reduction strategy. CCEDNet will continue to share information about consultations on those strategies and work with members and partners to provide clear recommendations to make those strategies effective.

Ultimately, that was the final message of the event. The amazing innovation being led in communities is constantly evolving, and our ability as community leaders to make an ongoing impact is multiplied by the connections that continuously provide information, ideas and lessons to guide our efforts, and allow us to speak more powerfully and clearly to governments, partners and the public. ECONOUS2016 was part of what we intend to be an extended pan-Canadian conversation that will allow us to shape the future of community economic development in Canada together. So we invite you to continue to read CCEDNet newsletters, follow us on social media, become a member, and contribute to your national network.

If you missed ECONOUS2016, you can download the program and workshop presentations, watch the plenary videos, skim the twitter stream and see some of the pictures.

And I hope you’ll plan to join us in Calgary for the next National CED Conference in the fall of 2017, hosted by Thrive, Calgary’s CED Network, along with Momentum, Calgary Economic Development, REAP Business Association, Mount Royal University and the Calgary Economic Partnership. Watch CCEDNet newsletters for more information.

A big thank you to all our sponsors, participants, and to our 2016 host CEDEC for a successful event!

Michael Toye is the Executive Director of the Canadian CED Network. He has also taught courses on CED and social enterprise at Concordia University and has written a number of articles and other publications on CED and the social economy, including co-editing the book, Community Economic Development: Building for Social Change.

Read Michael’s blogs

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Social Innovation Challenge Winners May 2-6 was the final week of the 2015/2016 SFU CED program and we ended with a bang!

Students pitched their social impact ideas for a total prize pool of $20,000 for the Social Innovation Challenge, an exciting part of the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development over the past three years.

The challenge is a “collab-etiton” in which students collaborate on rapid prototyping and project design. 14 students pitched project ideas, and then the students spent two days working together on improving and refining their ideas, choosing the top five to pitch to a panel of judges.

Our Social Innovation winners were:

Donna McBride for her project the Third Wheel.

Donna is director of operations at Momentum in Calgary, a CED organization offering programming in the areas of business development, skills training and financial literacy.

Donna has three sons, one of whom has cerebral palsy. She has spent much of her life helping her son live his best life, and believes that everyone can succeed if given the right tools and supports.

The Third Wheel is a new business Donna is launching with two community members who use wheelchairs, which will offer emergency wheelchair repair services evenings, weekends and holidays.

There are currently no repair services available outside of normal business hours to the thousands of Calgarians who use some form of mobility aid. By providing an emergency service in the off-hours, we will lessen the amount of down-time experienced by people with disabilities when their equipment breaks down. Since the company will be operated by people with disabilities, we’re also creating employment opportunities for people who may have been challenged to find suitable work in the mainstream workforce.

The Third Wheel won $10K which will go toward the first year costs of a van and modifications so that we can begin offering our mobile repair service.

“The SFU CED program gave me the impetus and the tools to take action toward solving this problem in Calgary. Being surrounded by like-minded learners and supported by the experience that everyone brings to the table was exactly what I needed to move forward.”

Diandra Oliver for the Home Sweet Home Field School

Diandra is a writer, feminist, and community-developer from northern B.C. who co-founded Home Sweet Home with Laura Sapergia. Home Sweet Home is a community-funded economic project that has worked since 2012 to diversify the Northern B.C. food system, primarily in our community of Prince George.

Diandra pitched a summer tour iteration of the HSH Field School, a multi-day, multi-platform learning opportunity for northern B.C communities to easily address gaps and challenges in their local food systems.

The HSH Field School is delivered with a keen eye on ensuring long-term and important community impacts. We will work directly with community partners to identify short and long-term goals, areas of strength, and possible opportunities for improvement, inspiring a deep-rooted commitment to and ownership of the local food economy. The field school will also deliver hard skills (marketing, business development, advocacy, conflict resolution) and opportunities for celebration.

Diandra was awarded $5000 to kick off the Field School tour this summer.

“Most northern communities have no resources or infrastructure to deliver sustainable and strong food projects. Most municipalities have bylaws that restrict food production or businesses. Participating in the CED program has given me the tools to do more than just call out the injustices, but to support communities to work together to rebuild their own economy, one table at a time.”

Jessica Matthies Vergata for the Calgary Kitchen Library

Jessica Matthies Vergata has a Calgary business called Preserve Foodskills, a culinary education centre with a strong focus on heritage skills like canning, brewing, meat-curing, and fermenting. Preserve Foodskills also offers a product line in partnership with a local urban agriculture CSA program, and is working to develop a food hub in Calgary with other local businesses and organizations.

Jessica pitched the Calgary Kitchen Library. It is a kitchen-equipment lending program, where any member of the public can become a member and borrow equipment for up to one week at a time. The Calgary Kitchen Library mitigates barriers to cooking by making kitchen equipment accessible for anyone who either can’t afford to purchase or store equipment, or for anyone who wants to exit the cycle of constantly needing to purchase things and the inevitable waste that follows.

Jessica was awarded $3000 towards some of the startup costs, such as marketing, supplementing inventory, and wages for a part-time employee.

“The SFU CED program has definitely created the fertile ground for this project to arise by attracting an amazing cohort of students. Without the connections made within this program, the Calgary Kitchen Library would not have had enough support within the community to go forward.”

Eric Burton for his proposal to create a comprehensive community economic development certification program.

Eric Burton Ec. D, is co-founder of Factor 5 Group, a social enterprise focused on co-creating sustainable communities through economic development expertise and service.

Eric pitched a comprehensive community economic development certification program that will establish community economic development standards to guide practitioners, organizations, communities and governments in achieving sustainable community economic development.

Eric was awarded $2000 towards going to Montreal for the CCEDNet Conference ECONOUS2016 in May, and starting to pull sopme people together to start this discussion.

“The SFU CED program provided the knowledge and framework to develop innovative concepts that are central to co-creating sustainable communities. As a result, we have been able to refine our core ideas and move them from concept through to planning and implementation. Most importantly, it established a peer network of friends, partners and colleagues that we have come to trust and respect thanks to their rigorous constructive feedback and creative insight.”

With thanks to the Dragonfly Fund at Tides Canada for funding this challenge.

Students in the CED program come from all over Canada. They are champions for local living economies and work in social enterprise, non-profits, business associations, credit unions and municipal government. They all share a passion for a new economy—one that values people, places, and the planet.

Applications for the 2016/2017 SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development are now open. To find out more, visit www.sfu.ca/cscd/ced

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The SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development is a hands-on professional development program for people who are working on making change in their communities. Every year, the program has a wide mix of students from across B.C. and Alberta. Community builders, social workers, social entrepreneurs, community economic developers and others work together on real problems and business ideas they are working on in their communities.

The program is part-time, delivered mostly online over eight months, with two one-week residencies in Vancouver in October and May.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) invites the submission of an Application for Funding from Indigenous organizations interested in obtaining time-limited Skills and Partnership Fund (SPF) contribution funding. Proposals must demonstrate partnership-based approaches to the development of Training to Employment or Innovation activities improving employment outcomes of Indigenous people.

The Skills and Partnership Fund is a demand-driven, partnership-based program that supports government priorities through strategic partnerships by funding projects contributing to the skills development and training of Indigenous workers for long-term, meaningful employment.

2016 Skills and Partnership Fund Call for Proposals Information Sessions

Join one of the three free webinars taking place on:

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 13:00 – 14:30 EST (English)
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 from 10:00 – 11:30 EST (French)
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 from 13:00 – 14:30 EST (English)

Send an email to ALMP-PAMT at hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca to register, specifying which session you wish to attend.

Call for Proposals Summary

The maximum duration of projects is four years (48 months).
The total amount of funding requested from ESDC must not exceed $10 million per project.
Under the Training to Employment stream, proposals will receive additional consideration if at least 50% of the total project value comes from partners (e.g. from large, private-sector organizations).
As this is a competitive process, not all proposals submitted under this CFP will be selected; funding is limited and subject to ESDC’s annual budget considerations and allocation of funds by Parliament.
The Government of Canada reserves the right to accept a proposal, in whole or in part, and give consideration to factors such as geographic coverage, and official language requirements.

How to Apply

Your application must be submitted no later than July 5, 2016 before 11:59 p.m. EST.

You are encouraged to submit online using the Grants and Contributions Online Services (GCOS). Note: Registering to GCOS can take up to two (2) weeks

Register for GCOS

Applications can also be submitted by email to NC-SPF-FCP-GD at hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca or by mail using the address below.

Skills and Partnership Fund – 2016 Call for Proposals
Employment and Social Development Canada
140 Promenade du Portage
Phase IV. 4th Floor – Mailstop 421
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0J9

More information about the Skills and Partnership Fund

Community Economic Development Graduate Diploma at Concordia University

“For you, for us, for everyone.”

For you

Continue your education without putting your life on hold.

Weekend classes once a month make it possible to continue with your activities while you engage with theory and learn skills to enrich your practice and community engagement. The program has been adapted to accommodate the needs of its students.

For us

Be part of a community that encourages social innovation.

Study at Concordia University where social and collective enterprises are already in action and grassroots initiatives thrive. Take advantage of a unique co-learning experience with community members, classmates, alumni and professors. All within the dynamic and culturally-engaged city of Montreal, that has its own vibrant history of community-based activism for social, political and economic change.

For everyone

Understand and act to meet today’s complex social, economic and environmental challenges.

Use the knowledge you will acquire to contribute to an alternative future. Shape policy, programs, institutions and community as you work with others to (re)build connections between people and with the earth. Students have gone on to work with social justice movements, environmental groups, community organisations as well as social economy initiatives.

Concordia University is still accepting applications for September 2016

Apply now to Concordia’s Graduate Diploma in CED

Trillium funding; Photo by Jessica Lovell

Ontario Co-operative Association executive director Erin Morgan, centre, poses for a photo with the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s David Murray, left, and local MPP Liz Sandals, right, at a funding announcement Thursday. The association is getting $486,500 over two years to enhance and expand its services to co-op businesses and entrepreneurs.

Guelph co-operatives The Co-operators, Gay Lea Foods, The Boardroom among those set to benefit

The Ontario Co-operative Association will be enhancing the services it provides thanks to a grant of $486,500 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

“This is going to go a long way to developing co-ops in Ontario,” association executive director Erin Morgan said Thursday following the funding announcement at the association’s Guelph office.

The two-year grant will fund a project that will allow the association to scale up and expand its system of regional co-operative networks, a news release said.

In making the funding announcement, local MPP Liz Sandals explained what this will mean.

Some of the things that will be happening with the grant include a regional training conference, providing training and support directly to co-operative businesses, she said.

The funding will also support the start of up to 60 new co-operatives, and will be used to promote the conversion of other types of businesses to co-operative businesses, Sandals said.

It will also see the number of regional co-op networks increase from six to nine regions in the province, she said.

Sandals listed some of the local co-op businesses in Guelph, including The Co-operators and Gay Lea Foods, as well as local credit unions and mutual insurance companies. “We’ve got lots of non-profit co-ops that are located in Guelph,” she said.

The funding will help promote the co-op business model, which Sandal’s called a “really community-friendly business structure.”

“Co-ops are a business structure that people don’t necessarily think about,” she said. “Even though it’s a really effective model for engaging the community.”

Kevin Bowman, who is soon to open his board-game café, The Boardroom, in Guelph, is one of the people who will benefit from support from the co-op association.

The association helped him when he wanted to convert from a standard corporation to a co-op. It was not an easy process, but ultimately the hope is that it will benefit the workers.

One of the reasons for converting to a worker co-op was to allow the business to share profits with its workers, he explained.

Working in the service industry “can be quite a tough living, and we didn’t want to contribute to that situation,” Bowman said.

The business will start off paying workers a “living wage,” which is Guelph has been calculated to be $16.50 per hour, he said. At the end of the year, if the business has turned a profit, the employees will get an additional payout based on how much they have worked.

Written by Jessica Lovell and originally published by the Guelph Mercury on May 3, 2016

Prosper Canada is seeking applications from non-profit/charitable organizations to be part of a new project, Financial Empowerment Champions.

Prosper Canada will collaborate with five organizations across the country to improve the financial wellbeing of over one million Canadians living on low incomes.

Project funding of up to $150,000 annually will be distributed over 4.5 years to each organization, to help them deliver and expand a set of five proven financial empowerment interventions. These organizations will be referred to as Financial Empowerment Champions (FEC) through the project.

This call for applications is primarily intended for non-profit/charitable organizations that are:

working in urban settings;
currently offering financial empowerment interventions to individuals living on low incomes;
and are proactive evaluators of their programs.

Please click on the links below to review detailed information about the project, application criteria and guidelines. If you feel this would be an appropriate opportunity for your organization, please complete the application form and submit all relevant documents by 5:00 p.m. (EST) on Thursday June 30, 2016.

Project overview
Application guidelines
Frequently asked questions
Online application
Financial empowerment brief

Attend a webinar information session

There will be three webinar information sessions for organizations to ask questions about the application process. Please review application materials and register for one of the following sessions:

May 10 – English
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EDT)
May 12 – English
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (EDT)
May 18 – French
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (EDT)

SOURCE: Prosper Canada

Every year, CCEDNet members are invited to submit nominations for CCEDNet’s Board of Directors. This year, there were four vacancies to be filled.

Four eligible nominations were received by the deadline, leading our Elections Officer to declare the following candidates elected by acclamation:

Laurie Cook
Walter Hossli
Marianne Jurzyniec
Yvon Poirier

The results will be ratified at CCEDNet’s Annual General Meeting of the members on June 9.

Congratulations to these amazing CED leaders from across Canada, who will be part of CCEDNet’s dedicated Board of Directors.

Laurie Cook

Laurie Cook is a Convenor with the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia and project lead for the United Way Halifax’s Hub Convening Project. She was also this past year a volunteer Member Liaison for the Atlantic Region of CCEDNet. Her passion is community development, and besides being active professionally in the field for a number of years as a facilitator and community developer, Laurie also lives in Musquodoboit Harbour which is a rural area of the city. In 2006, as a volunteer, she chaired a community visioning process which led to several community initiatives that she was also involved in co-founding. These included: redevelopment of an old school, design of a co-operative rural transportation service, development of a new women,s organization focused on economic empowerment for women and co-creation of a volunteer peer support group called Eastern Shore Mental Health.

Walter Hossli

Walter Hossli has been in leadership positions in the community sector for the past 25 years. He is the Founder and Director Emeritus at Momentum, a Community Economic Development organization that partners with people living on low incomes to increase prosperity. As an award-winning organization Momentum has 20 programs, works with 4000 participants per year and is seen as a leader among charities in Calgary. After 15 years in the private sector, Walter studied social work before entering the community sector. He serves in a number of volunteer capacities and has played key roles with several large collaborative or sector initiatives. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of The Calgary Foundation since 2010. He wrote “Competition in the Voluntary Sector: the Case of Community Based Trainers in Alberta” published by the Muttart Foundation.

Marianne Jurzyniec

Marianne Jurzyniec is a Governance Liaison Manager with Affinity Credit Union in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her involvement with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network, Impact! The Co-operators Youth Program for Sustainability Leadership and past community development experience have led her to being a champion of co-operatives, the sharing economy, and citizen engagement. Currently she is pursuing a certificate in Social Economy and Co-operatives led jointly by Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and the Center for the Study of Co-operatives.

Yvon Poirier

Yvon Poirier has been a CCEDNet member since 2003, first as an individual member, and for the last five years as representative of the CDÉC de Québec. He has been on the Board since December 2012 and has been Board Secretary since June 2013. He has been a member of the Governance Committee since 2006 and was at the heart of the major by-law update CCEDNet undertook in 2007. He assisted the implementation of on-line Board elections and has been Elections Officer on several occasions.

Yvon is also involved in CCEDNet’s international work since 2004. In 2013, he joined the Board of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), of which CCEDNet has been a member since 2002. Through RIPESS, he was involved in the adoption process of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030.

The Government of British Columbia is supporting BC social enterprises that make a positive impact as they pursue social, cultural and environmental goals in communities throughout the province.

The Province has proclaimed May 2016 as Social Enterprise Month to help raise awareness of the diversity of social enterprises in B.C. and the contributions these business ventures make to communities and B.C.’s economy. The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation is supporting a number of events during the month to showcase and promote the growth of the social enterprise sector in B.C.

Social enterprises use business strategies to create a social or environmental impact. They range from thrift stores to businesses that provide skills training, affordable housing and jobs for people with disabilities. They can also be a for-profit business that focuses on social objectives. Like any other business, a social enterprise aims to create revenue. What sets a social enterprise apart is that its revenue is directed to a social or environmental goal.

Social Enterprise Month is part of the B.C. government’s work to promote social innovation in B.C. and is supported by the BC Partners for Social Impact (BCPSI), a group that includes more than 100 partners from government, business, non-profit organizations and academic and financial institutions.

This is the third Social Enterprise Month in British Columbia. Throughout May the hashtag #Impact4BC will connect people in a conversation about social enterprise and social innovation in the province. Visit HubcapBC.ca, B.C.’s online social innovation hub, to find Social Enterprise Month events and learn more about social innovation in B.C.

Quotes:

Michelle Stilwell, Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation –

“Social enterprises are focused on addressing social and environmental challenges here in our province and around the world. It’s exciting to see new ideas and approaches that combine business acumen with social goals. Innovative social entrepreneurs and community leaders are using social enterprises to invest in their communities and this May, we’re celebrating their contribution and the impact of social enterprises in British Columbia.”

David LePage, Buy Social Canada –

“Celebrate Social Enterprise Month by adding social value to your purchases and supporting social enterprises. By purchasing goods or services from social enterprises, British Columbians can strengthen their communities and make real progress towards social and environmental goals.”

Quick Facts:

The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation launched social impact purchasing guidelines in spring 2015 to promote purchasing from social enterprises and other organizations that have a social impact.
The Province has also created Canada’s first hybrid corporate model – the Community Contribution Company – to help social purpose businesses market themselves to both customers and investors. To date, 41 organizations have registered as C3s.
The B.C. government co-chairs the BC Partners for Social Impact, created in 2012 to implement the council’s recommendations and support social innovation in B.C. The Partners for Social Impact now includes more than 100 multi-sector partners, such as: Vancity, Simon Fraser University, Telus and the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Partner resources like HubcapBc.ca provide resources and opportunities for social innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, funders and public policy makers to connect with each other.

Learn More:

To learn more about B.C.’s social innovation and social enterprise sector or to find events and activities around B.C., visit: www.hubcapbc.ca

Get information on the BC Partners for Social Impact: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/business/social-innovation

Find out how to start a social enterprise: www.socialenterprisecanada.ca

Join the conversation by following @HubcapBC on Twitter and use #Impact4BC.

SOURCE: BC Government News