By Jasmine Retzer, Student, Mount Royal University • The Calgary social enterprises profiled in this article will be the subject of SEWF
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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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?”
By Jasmine Retzer, Student, Mount Royal University • The Calgary social enterprises profiled in this article will be the subject of SEWF
For the three days at the beginning of October, Calgary was the epicenter of a global conversation as it hosted 1,500 international
By Jennifer Neutel, Axiom News The world we want to see is not going to be created from sacrifice but in harnessing
By Michelle Strutzenberger, Axiom News Even with the trillions of dollars and billions of volunteer hours invested in charity over the last