Category: Social Economy & Social Enterprise
The International Centre for Innovation and Knowledge Transfer on the Social and Solidarity Economy (C.I.T.I.E.S.) has opened its new headquarters at the Maison de l’économie sociale in Montréal’s Centre-Sud district….
CCEDNet has joined Alliance 2030! CCEDNet is also currently a member of Together 2030 to promote national implementation and track progress of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We’re also a member of RIPESS who has been…
The Government of Ontario has announced $13.6M in investments and funding as part of the provincial Social Enterprise Strategy. The investments will improve social enterprises’ access to capital and business supports,…
From left to right: Michael Toye, Yvon Poirier, Ethel Côté, Paul Singer, Michael Lewis. Professor Paul Singer passed away on Monday April 16. He had been at the heart of…
Matthew Dyck, a member of the Canadian CED Network, sat down with our Manitoba Regional Director Sarah Leeson-Klym for a podcast on CED. They were able to sit down and…
Elections provide meaningful opportunities for our sector to engage and capture the attention of political parties and candidates towards promoting social enterprises to increase their impacts. The OSER secretariat is…
We definitely know the tide is turning when industry leaders like Mitchell Cohen, the President of the Daniels Corporation, encourages the private sector to “climb aboard the social procurement train”….
Since co-releasing the Social Enterprise Sector Strategy in partnership with the Government of Nova Scotia in April 2017, the network secretariat, Common Good Solutions, has been collecting and analyzing data…
The so-called ‘sharing’ economy leaves no one indifferent. As it goes with olives or coriander, we either adopt or passionately reject these platforms which now seem, for better or for…
The Department of Employment and Social Development Canada launched its Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy Steering Group. This is an exciting time for the sector, as the group gears up…
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, the Government of Manitoba presented the Speech from the Throne for the Third Session of the 41st Manitoba Legislature. This speech sets the stage for…
The federal government’s social innovation and social finance strategy is the biggest policy opportunity for community economic developers in a generation. Let me tell you why. The practices described by…