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Provoking Innovation and Building Capacity in Social Entrepreneurship

Aspirations for social enterprise set the bar too low

Two common refrains – hoping for the day when every business is a social enterprise, and claiming that social entrepreneurship “is a verb, not a noun” – sound positive. In fact, they’re holding us back from performing among the virtuosos of the world.

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Prizes of $270,000 celebrate all stages of social enterprises across Canada

At its core, social entrepreneurship uses business models/ markets to solve social problems. Regardless of whether it’s an individual or an organization, regardless of their choice of incorporation- non-profit or for-profit, these elements are the driving and amplifying force.

We support social entrepreneurship.

We are a private foundation that believes in supporting social entrepreneurship through programmatic, grant making, and partnership approaches. We take a systems view to every decision we make and foster social entrepreneurship by supporting the ecosystem and providing social entrepreneurs with capacity building resources.

We are entrepreneurial.

We believe in making social entrepreneurship mainstream. We know we can’t do it alone. Which is why we don’t just fund organizations; we work with them and learn with them to move the sector forward, taking risks along the way.

#FF: Follow Friday @unitedwecan from Vancouver, B.C.

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March 25, 2011

Since 1995, United We Can has been operating self sustaining urban enterprises to create community, income, and job training for people in

Wait, I don’t quite understand your funding.

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March 21, 2011

Last week, at the Advancing Social Enterprise event hosted by The Calgary Foundation and SVP Calgary, I got quite a few questions

#FF: Follow Friday @theSoupBee from Winnipeg, Manitoba

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March 18, 2011

On Twitter, there’s a phenomenon called Follow Friday that allows people to recommend their favourite tweeters to all of their followers. Follow

Social Enterprise Helps Pave the Path for Women

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February 23, 2011

March 8, 2011 marks the centennial anniversary of International Women’s Day. Although significant progress has been made since the first International Women’s