Category: Entrepreneurship & Business Development

CCEDNet member Roger Peters is an engineer and policy analyst with over 40 years experience in co-operatives, clean energy, and local economic development. He is a founding member of the…

                            Innovative Manitoba Social Enterprises are Scaling Up with New Financial Support Over winter and spring 2020, a…

The federal government’s role as backstop during the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t end with the first wave of reopening—Canada needs to step up with more investments to ensure a just, equitable…

Note: this piece was originally published on the Co-operate Enterprise Council website by CECNB’s executive director Wendy Keats. This piece is a follow-up to an earlier post Wendy wrote on the CECNB blog entitled…

CCEDNet Manitoba is pleased to help shape Manitoba’s 2020-21 provincial budget through our submission. Our briefing was sent last week to Minister of Finance Scott Fielding. The submission involves eight recommendations…

A few years ago, Mark Kerwin bought coffee beans at Klink Coffee. Once back home, he made himself a cup of coffee, a great cup of coffee! It tasted so…

Angie brought passion while Morgan Vespa brought the funding know-how, making this a dynamic match “For me, personally, the sweat lodge is important.  That’s where I do my healing”  …

Calling Canada’s Amazing Social Entrepreneurs: Applications Open for the $100,000 Social EnterPrize  The Social EnterPrize seeks to celebrate and advance leadership and excellence in social entrepreneurship across Canada. Process: If…

Interested in exploring the development of an employment social enterprise idea? Biannually, TEF runs the ESE Idea Accelerator program, which supports individuals and organizations in developing early-stage employment social enterprise…

The Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia and the national Social Enterprise Ecosystem Project have joined up to launch the province’s first impact investment fund, the Social Enterprise Impact Investment Pilot….

The Toronto Enterprise Fund‘s Accelerator program provides participants with support to develop and refine early-stage employment social enterprise (ESE) ideas. Applications to the second cohort of their Accelerator are now open! The…

On October 24, 2018, Winnipeggers will go to the polls to elect a mayor, city council, and school trustees. Our city, like many in Canada, continues to face high poverty…