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This guide provides a catalog of efforts made by local government institutions to support cooperative development in their regions. It is an ongoing compilation of information by the Philadelphia Area…
The Government of Manitoba’s strategy to enable individuals with barriers to employment access to meaningful work through social enterprise is part of a larger provincial job creation strategy launched in…
This Directory of Resources for Aboriginal Social Entrepreneurs has been designed to simplify your efforts to find and acquire information. There are abundant resources available, but programs continually change over…
Drawing on years of working with social entrepreneurs, conversations from across the globe, and lessons from case studies of its Social EnterPrize recipients, a new report from the Trico Foundation,…
This workbook is for you if you are concerned about your local economy and want to prove how effectively different parts of your economy are working. Perhaps your community is…
“The populations that are marginalized suffer from lack of political power, on one hand, and are quite invisible to the general population, on the other,” she explains. “So their struggles and…
This second edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines how national and local actors can better work together to support economic development and job creation at the local…
Co-operatives in Canada in 2012 is an annual publication that provides national baseline data on the co-operatives sector. The Government of Canada has been collecting and publishing this data since the 1930s. Co-operatives…
This report examines financing for the social enterprise sector in Winnipeg and Manitoba. The report utilizes a literature review, which covers the last ten years of peer-reviewed articles (2015-2016) as…
This project surveyed social enterprises in Manitoba during the spring and summer of 2011 to develop clear indicators of their size, market activities, and socio‐economic contributions. In this study, a…
In the past three decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives have been lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little…
In response to fiscal pressures and broader societal trends, many governments are seeking to unlock greater value from their infrastructure investments and procurement spending. Through community benefits and social procurement…
