Creating more and better quality jobs is key to boosting growth, reducing poverty and increasing social cohesion.
Posted: December 4, 2014
A new study on co-operatives and social enterprises prepared for the Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick (CECNB), with support from the Department of Post-Secondary Education and Labour, revealed that co-operatives make a significant economic impact in the province. T
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An international survey of co-ops and mutuals at work in the health and social care sectorWhat is important about the engagement of cooperatives and mutuals in the health and social care sector? How do these organizations improve access to health care? How are they innovative?
Offering a loan to help a non-profit day care in a low-income community expand its services; helping members make socially responsible investments; providing preferential rates for the purchase of fuel efficient cars; contributing to a community capital fund for environmental businesses. These are all examples of social finance.
This study examines the potential for a stronger and more significant worker co-operative sector in Saskatchewan and probes some of the development barriers that prevent it.
