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What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnerships

Organization: 
Living Cities
Author: 
Alison Gold

This paper from Living Cities analyzes the structures and behaviors of effective cross-sector partnerships to provide a framework for how to best achieve measurable impact.  Author Alison Gold examines four cross-sector partnerships to show what traits are needed to build a strong foundation for the partnership, what factors influence the partnership’s success, and what behaviors will produce high-impact partnerships.

Year: 
2013
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Partnership Building
Sector-Based Strategies

Social Entreprises and the Ontario Disability Support Program: A Policy Perspective on Employing Persons with Disabilities

Organization: 
NORDIK Institute and the Canadian CED Network
Author: 
Gayle Broad, Madison Saunders

Social Enterprises and the Ontario Disability Support Program: A Policy Perspective on Employing Persons with DisabilitiesIn 2006 CCEDNet undertook a research initiative designed to identify areas for po

Year: 
2008
Format: 
Document
Research report
Categories: 
Disability Groups
Educational Programs
Job Training
Policy Development & Advocacy
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Source: 
CCEDNet

Building a Federal Policy Framework and Program in Support of CED

Author: 
Kirsten Bernas and Brendan Reimer

This report addresses the ongoing challenge for CED organizations in Canada to maximize their long-term community benefit when multi-year funding for core organizational costs remains out of reach.

Year: 
2011
Format: 
Document
Categories: 
Government
Policy Development & Advocacy
Source: 
CCEDNet

Upholding the Canadian Promise: Recommendations for a CED Approach to Settlement Challenges

Organization: 
The Canadian CED Network

Immigrant and refugee persons face serious settlement challenges. Integrating into their new community is made exceedingly difficult due to their limited social and professional networks, the non-recognition of foreign experience and credentials, and the competitive nature of the Canadian labour market. Increasingly, newcomers are frustrated by being on the margins of Canadian society.

Year: 
2007
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Research report
Categories: 
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
New Canadians
Policy Development & Advocacy
Source: 
CCEDNet

Québec's cooperatives and mutual aid organizations: an undeniable economic force. The multifaceted social economy.

Organization: 
Desjardins Economic Studies
Year: 
2011
Format: 
Research report
Categories: 
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Co-operatives
Finance
Organizational Development
Social Economy & Social Enterprise
Stories and Experiences
Source: 
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