Posted: September 28, 2016
Up to twenty-five Francophone and bilingual collective businesses in Ontario will be eligible to receive a grant to improve their services thanks to a partnership between the Conseil de la coopération de l'Ontario (CCO), a member of the Canadian CED Network, and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) under the Ontario Social Impact Vouchers’ prog
When small communities begin to think about developing and diversifying their economies, they often ask, “Where do we start?”
Posted: September 19, 2016
CCEDNet member, the Women’s Economic Council (WEC), is looking for a few good women and men to participate in a virtual, national Technical Working Group.
British Columbians love beer and, as witnessed by the recent proliferation of breweries, craft brewing is a good business proposition. But success is not built on beer alone. SFU CED instructor and founder of Persephone Brewing, Brian Smith, talks about the importance of building and maintaining relationships in business development. Persephone, a B-corp on the Sunshine Coast is not only selling a terrific amount of beer, but is also having positive impacts in the community in its pursuit of the triple bottom line (social, environmental and financial success).
The Business Vitality Initiative process and the content in this toolkit were developed by and remain the intellectual property of the Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL).
Posted: September 13, 2016
The Ville de Montréal and the Chantier de l'économie sociale, co-organizers of the Global Social Economy Forum – GSEF2016, are proud of this third meeting, which brought together more than 1,400 participants from about 60 countries. In total, some 200 social and solidarity economy (SSE) initiatives from Québec and elsewhere were presented in and around the GSEF2016. Montréal is the first North American host city of the forum since the founding of the GSEF in Seoul in 2013.
