Cluster 4 – Measuring and Mapping the Social Economy
Last Updated on December 14th, 2011
Social enterprises make significant contributions to the local, regional, national and international community. Cluster 4′s objective is to develop measurement tools to determine more precisely the value of those contributions. Multiplier effects, spillovers and externalities that occur because of the organizations that exist within a community need to be identified and measured. With a clearer understanding of the impact social enterprises have on the economic and social life within communities, community partners, policymakers and other key actors in the social economy will be in a better position to make informed decisions.
Co-lead, Lou Hammond Ketilson, University of Saskatchewan (principal investigator), is director of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and co-director (academic) of the Community-University Institute for Social Research. She has research interests in community economic development, policy,gender, leadership, and Aboriginal co-operative development.
Co-lead, Monique Beaudoin, is the Ontario Regional Coordinator of the Canadian CED Network – la Réseau canadien de DEC (CCEDNet-RCDEC).
The following is a list of co-applicants and collaborators working with Cluster 4:
- Marie Bouchard, University of Québec at Montréal (co-applicant), is Canada Research Chair on the Social Economy and is with the Centre de recherché sur les innovations sociales (CRISES).
- Leslie Brown, Mount Saint Vincent University (co-applicant), is a sociologist specializing in co-operative democracy and participation, social auditing, and social responsibility in co-operatives.
- Ian MacPherson, University of Victoria (co-applicant), is a world authority on co-operatives, a historian of Canada, and director of the B.C. Institute of Co-operative Studies.
- Jessica Gordon Nembhard, University of Maryland College Park (co-applicant), is an economist in Afro-American Studies and with The Democracy Collaborative. She works in democratic community-based economic development, alternative urban development strategies, and co-operative economics.
- Rose Olfert, University of Saskatchewan (co-applicant), is an agricultural economist specializing in regional economics and rural development.
- Mark Partridge, University of Saskatchewan (co-applicant), is Canada Research Chair in the New Rural Economy in the Department of Agricultural Economics with expertise in rural development.
- Jack Quarter, University of Toronto (co-applicant), is a leading authority on Canada’s social economy and focuses on workplace and economic democracy, co-ops, nonprofits, and community development.
The following is a list of community partners working with Cluster 4:
- Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. (ACL)
- British Columbia Co-operative Association (BCCA)
- Co-operatives Secretariat, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Community Health Services (Saskatoon) Association
- Cooperation Works, USA
- Ontario Co-operative Association
- QUINT Development Corporation, Saskatoon
- Credit Union Central of Saskatchewan
- University of Winnipeg
- VanCity Savings Credit Union and its Group of Companies
The following is a list of research projects being conducted under Cluster 4 (in alphabetical order):
- A Place to Learn, Work, and Heal : An Evaluation of Crocus Co-operative (CL4-07-SK) | Completed
- Community Resilience, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Case of the Social Economy in La Ronge (CL4-03-SK) | Completed
- The Economic Impact of Credit Unions on Rural Communities (CL4-11) | Completed
- Enhancing and Linking Ethnocultural Organizations and Communities in Rural Manitoba: A Focus on Brandon and Steinbach (CL4-13-MB) | Completed
- Exploring the Social Economy in Saskatchewan: Urban, Rural and Northern (CL4-19-SK)
- Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhoods (CL4-04-SK) | Completed
- Initiatives, pratiques et appuis au développement économique communautaire: la participation de l’économie sociale dans la construction des capacities des communautés francophones: Nord de l’Ontario, Manitoba et Saskatchewan / Community Economic Development Initiatives, Practices and Supports: How the Social Economy Contributes to Francophone Communities in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (CL4-01-NO)
- Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Sustainable Social Economy Organizations in Rural, Southeast Saskatchewan: A Research Report (CL4-02-SK)
- Mapping Social Capital in a Network of Community Development Organizations (CL4-05-SK)
- Mapping Social Economy Organizations in Ontario (CL4-08)
- Mapping the Nature and Extent of the Social Economy in Aboriginal Communities (CL4-12)
- Mapping the Social Economy of Manitoba and Saskatchewan (CL4-10)
- Measuring and Mapping the Impact of Social Economy Enterprises: The Role of Co-operatives in Community Population Growth (CL4-06) | Completed
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Enterprises (CL4-09)
- Outcomes and Organizational Form in the Child Care Sector: How do Co-operatives Compare? (CL4-15)
- Profile of Community Economic Development in Manitoba (CL4-16-MB)
- Sault Ste. Marie Labour and the Social Economy: A Case Study (CL4-18-NO)
- Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee: A Case Study in Respectful Relations, Anti-Racism, and Solidarity in the Social Economy (CL4-17-NO)
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