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Is your non-profit organization: exploring social enterprise as a means of enhancing the delivery of your mission or programs? launching a social enterprise to respond to community needs? growing a…
New Research Connects Investments in Low-Income Communities to Direct Gains in Employment and Income
LISC study details strategies that make poor neighborhoods more resilient A new study of dozens of poor communities across the country found that families fared better economically in places where…
I had a feeling of being privy to an historic moment as I listened in on a call this week about designing a new ecology of practices to make more…
As I ponder how we analyze a community economy, I think I am starting to understand my continual aversion to the on-going efforts to ‘map social economy’ or ‘mapping social…
The Canadian Alternative Investment Foundation (CAIF) is pleased to announce that there will be two Calls for Letter of Inquiry in 2015. (Deadlines noted below) CAIF builds on CAIC’s (Canadian…
Originally published on Momentum’s blog Engage on December 16, 2014 Momentum’s Self Employment program has offered business training to Calgarians since 1998. Because our participants face barriers such as disability,…
This blog was originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review on December 4, 2014 When most people speak of place-based efforts to alleviate poverty, their definition is the same…
Enterprising Non-Profits is now seeking established social enterprises to present their impact business challenge in the 2015 Heroes event, being planned for May 2015. If your social enterprise is interested…
The international development community recognizes the need to rethink development. Business-as-usual has not prevented the recent financial and food crises, climate change, persistent poverty and rising inequality. As a post-2015…
Are you ready to commit to your big, bold idea for positive social change? Join over 600 social entrepreneurs in the Echoing Green Fellowships, driving change in over sixty countries…
New Brunswick co-operatives generate $1.4 billion in revenues, employ thousands A new study on co-operatives and social enterprises prepared for the Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick (CECNB), with support…
We were pleased to announce at the 2014 Social Finance Forum that Community Finance Solutions will support 16 new initiatives with strategic advice, research, connections, and promotional opportunities. These 16…