Themes: Social Economy

Doing Well While Doing Good Doing Well While Doing Good shares our insights as to why some organizations are more successful than others at developing viable social purpose enterprises. Published…

The Canadian Community Economic Development Network, partnered with Pacific Community Resource Society, has worked with youth to develop local community action plans. The action plans address the human resource needs…

This manual supplies a thorough method for assessing social enterprise – what it might offer your community or organization, your readiness for it, and steps for launching and maintaining a…

Communities Under Pressure: the Role of Co-operatives and the Social Economy brought together policy makers, researchers, and prac- titioners to explore the experiences of an important component of the social…

This report presents and discusses statistics for agricultural co-operatives from 1998 to 2002. The information in this report is obtained from the Canadian Annual Survey of Co-operatives, a voluntary survey…

This is a guide about rebuilding troubled communities. It is meant to be simple, basic and usable. Whatever wisdom it contains flows directly out of the experience of courageous and…

There is no question that co-operatives lead by example. Not only do they provide a way to successfully meet the economic and social needs of Canadians, but they are also…

Worker Co-operative Success Stories showcases some unique achievements made by worker co-operatives in Canada. As you will see from these stories, co-operatives are actively involved in the socio-economic and community…

Health care co-operatives provide services to Canadians through an approach focused on prevention of illness and user responsibility. While health care co-operatives are new to most provinces, they have been…

In Canada, agricultural co-operatives play an important role in processing and marketing farm products, providing agricultural supplies and services related to farm production and marketing. Like all co-operative organizations, agricultural…

This paper is part of a larger research study on the Aboriginal co-operative movement (A Report on Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada: Current Situation and Potential for Growth). The study was…

This guide attempts to answer important questions, including; How can you tell if your group is ready to embark on a social enterprise? What are the steps in a social…