Rural Social Enterprise in Ontario: RSEC Learning Report

The Rural Social Enterprise Collaborative (RSEC) is a provincial collaboration working to support nonprofit SE in rural communities as an active working group of the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) since 2012. It’s an evolving group of nonprofit organizations and individuals … Continued

Ontario Government Social Enterprise Stakeholder Survey

Building on the many successes of the Province’s first Social Enterprise Strategy, the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure (MEDEI) is in the process of developing a new social enterprise strategy to guide provincial social enterprise and social finance … Continued

Inspiring Innovation 2012 Social Enterprise report

The first provincial study to focus exclusively on social enterprise; a big picture look at the size, scope and socio-economic impact of nonprofit social enterprise in Ontario communities.

Social Enterprises in Ontario: Opportunities abound

Social Enterprises in Ontario: Opportunities abound Ontario’s social enterprise sector is dynamic and growing rapidly, as described in Enterprising Change: Report of the 2015 Social Enterprise Survey for Ontario. 597 social enterprises (SEs), both non-profit and for-profit, reported to a … Continued

Fusion Case Study

Now that you’ve got your feet wet you may want to take the deep dive into The Research Shop’s detailed case study of Fusion Youth by the University of Guelph’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute

The Earning Capacity Project – deadline extended.

The Earning Capacity Project will engage up to 30 community service organizations across Ontario to develop their social enterprise capacity. Successful applicants will have a committed team, marketable administrative capacity in areas including IT, HR, marketing, space, and finance, and … Continued

Social Learning for Social Impact

Social Learning for Social Impact is a massive open online course (MOOC) with ambitious goals: To inspire the creation and/or scaling of social initiatives that change the world (e.g. Grameen Bank, Doctors without Borders, Green Belt Movement, Khan Academy, etc.) … Continued