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Final Report List

Last Updated on May 3rd, 2013

 

The following is a list of projects and the resulting reports that were completed during our social economy research project: Linking, Learning, Leveraging.

Please note that there is also an Annotated Subject Index to the reports that you might find more useful.

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• Building Community: Creating Social and Economic Well-Being: A Conference Reflecting on Co-operative Strategies and Experiences. Mark McCulloch, 2010. | Final Report (pdf)

Cluster 1 – Social Enterprise Development

• Portrait of Community Resilience of Sault Ste. Marie (2010) Jude Ortiz and Linda Savory-Gordon | (CL1-01-NO) Final Report (pdf)
• Recovery of the Collective Memory and Projection into the Future: ASOPRICOR (2008) Jose Reyes, Janeth Valero, and Gayle Broad | (CL1-03-NO) Final Report (pdf)
• Participatory Action Research: Challenges, Complications, and Opportunities (2012) Patricia W Elliott | (CL1-05-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Northern Ontario Women’s Economic Development Conference Report (2009) PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise | (CL1-06-NO)  Final Report (pdf)
• Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Putting the “Culture” Back into Agriculture (2008) Miranda Mayhew, Cecilia Fernandez, and Lee-Ann Chevrette | (CL1-07-NO)  Final Report (pdf)
• Eat Where You Live: Building a Social Economy of Local Food in Western Canada (2010) Joel Novek and Cara Nichols| (CL1-13-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• Urban Aboriginal Strategy Funding Database (2008) Karen Lynch, Cara Spence, and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL1-14-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• A New Vision for Saskatchewan: Changing Lives and Systems Through Individualized Funding for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2008) Karen Lynch and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL1-15-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Cypress Hills Ability Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (2010) Maria Basualdo and Chipo Kangayi | (CL1-16-SK)  Final Report (pdf)
• Empowerment through Co-operation: Disability Inclusion via Multistakeholder C0operative Development (2011) Kama Soles | (CL1-21) Final Report (pdf)
  
• Co-operative Marketing Options for Organic Agriculture (2009) Jason Heit and Michael Gertler | (CL1-22) Final Report (pdf)
  
• Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (2008) Cara Spence and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL1-23-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Community-Based Regional Food Distribution Initiatives: A Cross-Case Analysis (2012) Colin Ray Anderson and Stéphane Marc McLachlan | (CL1-24-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course (2011) Leezann Freed-Lobchuk, Vera Goussaert, Michal Benarroch, Monica Juarez Adler | (CL1-27-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• Through the Eyes of Women: What a Co-operative Can Mean in Supporting Women During Confinement and Integration (2013) Isobel M. Findlay, James Popham, Patrick Ince, and Sarah Takahashi | (CL1-31-SK) Final Report (pdf)

Cluster 2 – Financing Strategies for Social Enterprise Development

• Financing Social Enterprises: A Scan of Financing Providers in the Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwestern Ontario Region (2008) Wanda Wuttunee, Russ Rothney, Lois Gray | (CL2-01-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• Financing Social Enterprises: an Enterprise Perspective (2008) Wanda Wuttunee, Martin Chicilo, Russ Rothney, Lois Gray | (CL2-02) Final Report (pdf)
• An Economic Analysis of Microcredit Lending (2011) Haotao Wu | (CL2-03) Final Report (pdf)
• Financing Aboriginal Enterprise Development: The Potential of Using Co-operative Models (2009) | (CL2–04) Final Report (pdf)
  

Cluster 3 – Governance of the Social Economy

• Self-determination in Action: The Entrepreneurship of the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association Co-operative (2010) Dwayne Pattison and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL3-01-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Understanding and Promoting Effective Partnerships for CED: A Case Study of SEED Winnipeg’s Partnerships (2011) Gaelene Askeland and Kirit Patel | (CL3-06-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• Community-Based Planning: Engagement, Collaboration and Meaningful Participation in the Creation of Neighbourhood Plans (2010) Karin Kliewer | (CL3-07-MB) Final Report (pdf)
  

Cluster 4 – Measuring and Mapping the Social Economy

• Community Resilience, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Case of the Social Economy in La Ronge (2011) Kimberly Brown, Isobel M. Findlay, Rob Dobrohoczki | (CL4-03-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhoods (2008) Mitch Diamantopoulos and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL4-04-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Mapping Social Capital in a  Network of Community Development Organizations (2012) Jason Heit | (CL4-05-SK) Final Report (pdf)
  
• Measuring and Mapping the Impact of Social Economy Enterprises: The Role of Co-operatives in Community Population Growth (2008) Chipo Kangayi, Rose Olfert, Mark Partridge | (CL4-06) Final Report (pdf)
  
• “A Place to Learn, Work, and Heal” : An Evaluation of Crocus Co-operative (2011) Julia Bidonde and Catherine Leviten-Reid | (CL4-07-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• The Economic Impact of Credit Unions on Rural Communities (2011) Fortunate  Mevenga | (CL4-11) Final Report (pdf)
• Enhancing and Linking Ethnocultural Organizations and Communities in Rural Manitoba: A Focus on Brandon and Steinbach (2011) Jill Bucklaschuk and Monika Sormova | (CL4-13-MB) Final Report (pdf)

Cluster 5 – Developing Policy Frameworks for the Social Economy

• Culture, Creativity, and the Arts: Achieving Community Resilience and Sustainability Through the Arts in Sault Ste. Marie (2009) Jude Ortiz and Gail Broad | (CL5-01-NO)  Final Report (pdf)
• Social Enterprises and the Ontario Disability Support Program: A Policy Perspective on Employing Persons with Disabilities (2008) Gayle Broad and Madison Saunders | (CL5-02-NO) Final Report (pdf)
• Algoma Central Railway: Wilderness Tourism by Rail (2008) (CL5-03-NO) | website | Opportunity Study prepared for the CAPT Project by Malone Given Parsons Ltd (pdf)
• The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Development: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context (2009) Brendan Reimer, Dan Simpson, Jesse Hajer, John Loxley | (CL5-04-MB) Final Report (pdf) | Policy Position Paper: Government Policies towards Community Economic Development and the Social Economy in Quebec and Manitoba (English pdf) (French pdf) - This is a position paper and not the project’s final report.
• Enabling Policy Environments for Co-operative Development: A Comparative Experience (2009) Monica Juarez Adeler | (CL5-05-MB) Final Report (pdf)
• Exploring Key Informants’ Experiences with Self-Directed Funding (2010) Nicola S. Chopin and Isobel M. Findlay | (CL5-06-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Adult Education and the Social Economy: Rethinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson (2010) Michael Chartier | (CL5-11) Final Report (pdf)
• Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector (2010) Jenny Kain, Emma Sharkey, Robyn Webb | (CL5-13) Final Report (pdf)
• South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence (2009) Isobel M. Findlay, Julia Bidonde, Maria Basualdo, Alyssa McMurtry | (CL5-15-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Community Conversations about the Good Food Junction Co-operative (2012) Emily Hurd | (CL5-20-SK) Final Report (pdf)
• Individualized Funding: A Framework for Effective Implementation (2012) M. Dozar, D. Gallant, J. Hannah, E. Hurd, J. Newberry, K. Pike, and B. Salisbury | (CL5-21-SK) Final Report (pdf)
  
• Mining and the Social Economy in Baker Lake, Nunavut (2011) Warren Bernauer | (CL5-22) Final Report (pdf)
• Building a Federal Policy Framework and Program in Support of Community Economic Development (2011) Kirsten Bernas, Brendan Reimer | (CL5-27-MB) Final Report (pdf)

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