Transforming the Community Impact of Campus Space: Bow Valley College and WINS Open a Social Enterprise Thrift Store

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.

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What is social entrepreneurship?

We define social entrepreneurship as using business models (selling a good or service) to enhance social impact. This reflects most Canadian definitions.

Beyond balance

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.  

Aspirational

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?”

SEWF 2013 Opening Greetings

Two of the many goals of the annual Social Enterprise World Forum are to build international linkage and galvanize the government of

By Jasmine Retzer, Student, Mount Royal University • The Calgary social enterprises profiled in this article will be the subject of SEWF

By Michelle Strutzenberger, Axiom News In one of the Social Enterprise World Forum’s closing sessions, author and entrepreneur Ron Schultz made a

By Michelle Strutzenberger, Axiom News Author Ron Schultz’s favourite social enterprise story has that engaging blend of the bold, bizarre and exciting

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