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?”

There are different legal structures that social enterprises can operate under, but its not always clear where the boundaries are blurry and

Completing four workshops and two rounds of grantmaking, we are pleased to share with you the list of our 2011 ENP-AB Grantees. 

We’re pleased to release two 2012 dates for Enterprising Non-Profits Alberta “Building Your Social Enterprise” workshop. Our goal in 2012 is to

If you’ve been following along this year, you’ll have noticed that our social media wiz, Stephanie, came up with a great concept

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