Labs are an emerging way tackling complex challenges. This panel addressed how they are using this approach in their country and how
Bow Valley College and Women In Need Society (WINS) have partnered to launch a new on-campus thrift store that combines affordability, sustainability, and hands-on learning. The initiative gives students access to low-cost essentials while creating real-world learning opportunities in social enterprise and community impact.
Click here to read more!
We define social entrepreneurship as using business models (selling a good or service) to enhance social impact. This reflects most Canadian definitions.
Many see the social and the entrepreneurial as being in opposition, like two sides of a scale that needs to be balanced. Instead, we see the social and the entrepreneurial as partners in progress.
We support a social entrepreneurship movement that dares to ask, “How far could we go in solving the world’s problems, and even fulfilling our potential as human beings, if we fully harnessed the power of business models to enhance social impact?”
Labs are an emerging way tackling complex challenges. This panel addressed how they are using this approach in their country and how
Corporations are moving from writing cheques to supporting social purpose work to doing it themselves. SEWF 2013 heard from a panel of
This session was moderated by Eva Friesen, President and CEO, The Calgary Foundation and featured: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center
This session looked at social enterprise policy development with a rural lens. This international panel of intermediaries and practitioners presented and discussed