This report outlines the results of an education and engagement process that included a series of workshops and consultations with members of ethnocultural organizations and the greater immigrant and refugee community in Manitoba on the topic of social enterprise creation as part of a Community Economic Development (CED) strategy.
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All kidding aside, this is one way to describe the pilot project community leaders in Winnipeg launched three years ago. They had identified the same thing as the Canadian CED Network (CCEDNet) did when it surveyed community economic development (CED) organizations in 2002: many people active in CED feel that they lack many of the skills required to pull off all the projects that need doing.
The blending of social and economic objectives is taking root across the world as the best means to replace dependency and exclusion with self-determination and self-sufficiency.
This report is part of a larger body of research titled "Creating Policy to Support Social Enterprise Development in Manitoba". Funding and support for this research was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Winnipeg Partnership Agreement, and the Assiniboine Credit Union.
Posted: May 21, 2009
