Vol 7, No 3
(Photo: Saint John Community Loan Fund’s new office and affordable apartments. Credit: Rob Roy.)
"Living Our Values: Social Enterprise in Action "
Third Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise
November 18-20, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario
Join hundreds of current and prospective practitioners of social enterprise for three days of training and work sessions, networking opportunities, speakers, interactive events, and a policy forum. Find out how social enterprise is being used to create quality jobs, goods, and services, to promote marketplace innovation, and to increase the independence of nonprofit organizations. This conference is an initiative of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada.
Making Waves Magazine
Contributors to this edition explain the lengths to which they are going to take community initiatives to the "Next Level."
An End and a Beginning
Making Waves magazine will soon come to a close. Coming up in 2010, an internet-based suite of communications will instead allow subscribers to wade, paddle, or plunge into issues of community resilience in an age of Peak Oil and climate change. Read it now.
Regenerating Regional Food Systems
Most local food strategies aim to build the demand for local food, or to source local food for low-income families. Mistake! We have to rebuild the supply side, too, and do so in ways that are profitable to small farmers.
Building Local Assets
A survey reveals that Canada's community investment sector grew to nearly 500 organizations in 2008, providing at least $1.4 billion in financial products and services to underserved populations and organizations.
Marketing Social Enterprise
Cause marketing isn't so much about the quality of a product or service, as about how "good" customers are entitled to feel when they make the "right" purchase. It's a trap that caught (but could not hold) two of Canada's best-known social enterprises. Read it now.
Social Enterprise, Unlimited
The United Kingdom has its Community Interest Companies; the United States is working on its Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies. Just imagine what our social enterprises could achieve if their singular nature was recognized under Canadian law! Read it now.
"Capital for Communities"
A Special Edition of Making Waves
Check out the contents of the upcoming Autumn 2009 Special Edition: How do we package, deliver, and apply capital to serve the needs of communities challenged by Peak Oil and climate change? Instead of a stumbling block, capital must become a catalyst of community transformation.
Advertisers, click here for parameters. Our thanks go to the following sponsors of this publication: Canadian Community Investment Network Co-operative, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Vancity Savings Credit Union and Vancity Community Foundation, Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, the Co-operatives Secretariat, and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change
At G20 negotiations earlier this year, governments proved they could take forceful, co-ordinated action against recession. Now let's see them do the same in response to climate change. Lend your voice to the Copenhagen Communiqué, a campaign by businesses and nonprofit organizations to urge the world's governments to come to a robust and equitable deal on climate change at the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December.
Join Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, the Canadian Centre for Community Enterprise, Alterna Savings and Credit Union, and many other organizations and become a signatory to this campaign.
Training for Transition Workshop
This 2-day event introduces the Transition Town model, a community engagement model for responding and adapting to the threats of climate change, fossil fuel dependence, and economic instability. Learn more about the workshop and upcoming events in Saskatoon, Victoria, and Vancouver.
Interested in hosting the Training for Transition Workshop? (Hosts for events in Alberta and Manitoba are particularly needed.) Download the host organizer's information package. The Host Organizer for last week's workshop in Clinton, Ont., commented,
"I am excited by the level of enthusiasm and ... to see the diverse group of people coming together and being energized to bring this movement to Ontario. I am glad we had the partners and the collaboration to make it happen in Huron County Ontario." Joan Van Der Meer, Centre for Applied Renewable Energy
CCCR in the News
Mike Lewis, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal (CCCR), has been awarded the Commitment to Global Co-operation Award by the BC Council for International Co-operation. It is one of three Global Cooperation Awards that the Council has inaugurated to mark its 20 years of work on behalf of sustainable global development. Mike was recognized as "an outstanding example of B.C. global citizenship and action in the field of economic justice, human rights and sustainable development." Learn more.
Ethel Côté, CCCR's staff specialist on social enterprise, has been invited to take part in the Social Enterprise World Forum 2009 in Melbourne, Australia, October 6-8, 2009. The Forum will support Australia's growing social enterprise movement, showcase successful enterprises, and increase the profile of social enterprise in the region and around the world. At the session entitled "Perfect Match" on October 8th, Ethel will share Canadian case studies about social enterprises that successfully employ highly marginalized workforces.
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