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Welcome to the web site of the Linking, Learning, Leveraging SSHRC-funded research project investigating the Social Economy. This project is comprised of multiple community partner organizations, academic researchers, and university students. See our Project Overview for more information.
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Please email Heather Acton to alert her to conferences and calls for papers that should be included in this list of upcoming conferences and meetings about co-operatives, the social economy, social enterprise, community economic development, community-based research, sustainable societies, and other associated topics. Thanks!
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Sault Ste. Marie, ON
A conference of the Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies and Sustainable Communities, the Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan regional node of the Social Economy Research Suite
Hosted by The Community Economic and Social Development (CESD) program of Algoma University
Conference Goals:
CALL FOR PAPERS: Student Conference on the Social Economy. June 1, 2010 Concordia University, Montreal. Deadline is March 1, 2010.
Research and shared perspectives on the Social Economy play an important role in informing the way we imagine social life in Canada as well as shaping the way in which the economy, individuals, and the environment will co-exist in the future. Since it is recognized that each individual embodies a unique perspective on the Social Economy, and that it is a community of these diverse perspectives which dictates the manner in which Social Economy movement will move forward - we are pleased to create a space where students and those with interest in the Social Economy may share their perspectives.
This one-day Social Economy Student Network conference will be held at Concordia University in Montréal June 1st, 2010 (with a social event for presenters organizers and attendees to follow). The Deadline for abstract submissions is March 1st, 2010. We invite anybody who has had experience working with and researching various aspects of the Social Economy to submit an abstract.
Announcing the launch of the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de re¬cherche sur les OSBL et l’économie sociale (ANSERJ).
Find details here.
The first issue is planned for Fall 2010.
Editors are:
Peter R. Elson, Mount Royal University
English Language Editor / Rédacteur en chef anglophone
Email: editor@anserj.ca
François Brouard, Carleton University
French Language Editor / Rédacteur en chef francophone
Email: editor@anserj.ca
The Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de recherche sur les OSBL et l’économie sociale (ANSERJ) is an online open access English and French peer-review publication. ANSERJ is dedicated to providing a stimulating and vibrant forum for the open dissemination of contemporary high-quality, peer-reviewed research on nonprofits and the social economy. This journal is intended to contribute to extending and linking the value of nonprofit and social economy research relationships across Canada and throughout the world. ANSERJ is multi-disciplinary, as well as interdisciplinary. High quality theoretically based, empirically grounded research and applied research from different perspectives is welcome to further the frontiers between theory and practice.
ANSERJ is the official journal of the Association of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER) / Association de recherche sur les organismes sans but lucratif et l’économie sociale (ARES). ANSER/ARES members receive pre-publication access to the journal.
The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Development: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context by Brendan Reimer, Dan Simpson, Jesse Hajer and John Loxley (CL5-04-MB). Please see the Final Report (pdf) for this project.
A bit about the project:
Advancing CED policy is a difficult task. Part of this difficulty lies in understanding the channels through which policy decisions are made and the distinctions among different levels of policy. Another challenge is devising a strategy for convincing those who have power to implement policy that supports CED to actually do so. Even if good policy is adopted, there remains the additional task of seeing that it is adequately implemented. This paper sheds some light on these difficult undertakings in the Manitoba context.
While this paper took the Manitoba context as a case study of how policy works and how to advance it, the lessons here may well be useful for promoting policy in different regions across Canada. The review of what policy actually consists of should also be helpful for understanding policy in any jurisdiction, and it is hoped that the review of policy proposals for Manitoba provides a useful set of examples for the type of policy objectives that could be pursued elsewhere.
See the final report for more information.
Please see the complete list of final Linking, Learning, and Leveraging project reports here.
Michael Chartier is the recipient of this year’s University of Saskatchewan Thesis Award in the category of the Professional and Applied Social Sciences which recognizes excellence and original quality in graduate student research, for his thesis “Adult Education and the Social Economy: Rethinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson”. Michael undertook the research to support his thesis with the support of a Linking, Learning, Leveraging scholarship. See more details about his research here.
Michael’s work, which covers the work of radical educator Watson Thomson and the Saskatchewan Adult Education Division, sheds new light on this little known period in Saskatchewan’s political, educational, and economic history which saw the development of over 100 cooperative enterprises and 500 adult study groups throughout the mid-1940s.
Michael was also the winner of the 2008 F.J.H. Fredeen Memorial Scholarship.
Congratulations, Michael! Well done!
Congratulations to Colin Anderson who has won a Fulbright Scholarship to support a year of fieldwork in Oregon starting September 2009.
Colin has done some exciting and impacting social economy research through the Linking, Learning, Leveraging Project. See his projects, Harvest Moon Society Marketing Cooperative: Building Social Capital through an Alternative Food Economy and Harvest Moon Society Marketing Cooperative: Building Social Capital through an Alternative Food Economy and Beyond Local: Building Urban-Rural Solidarity Through Food Relationships.
Visit the Social Economy Governance Portal here.
The material on this website has been gathered from the best sources in corporate governance, co-operative governance and social economy and third sector governance. While governance is a broad topic and no consensus exists on best practice, we hope that you will find these materials useful in investigating governance in the social economy. Topics are organized under the headings of Models of Governance, Tools for Excellence, Building Organizational Culture, Community Planning and Resilience, Keeping it Legal, Education and Research and Professional Services.
The Social Economy Governance Portal also offers case studies on effective governance in existing social enterprises, a dictionary of governance terms, a list of books, journals and magazines on the topic and a list of all the websites sourced in the construction of this website. You may use the governance blog to communicate with practitioners and researchers on topics relevant to governance of social enterprises and may post or receive information on various governance conferences and events occurring in Canada and internationally. Enjoy!
This website is a direct outcome of the SSHRC-funded Linking, Learning, Leveraging Project entitled, Toolkit for Empowering Practices in Social Economy Governance and Planning, for which Murray Fulton is the academic researcher and principal investigator, Quintin Fox is the community researcher, and Karlah Rudolph is the student researcher.
The Social Economy Student Network has recognized Monica Juarez Adeler as their Student Researcher of the Month for May 2009. Read more about Monica here.
For information about Monica’s research project for which the report is in the final formatting stage, please follow this link: Building a Tax Policy Framework to Enable Co-operative Development.
Monica has recently taken on a new role with the Linking, Learning, Leveraging Project as an administrative assistant working under the direct guidance of Dr. Jino Distasio, Director of the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg, and the Manitoba regional administrator for the Linking, Learning, Leveraging project.
Congratulations, Monica!
From the MaRS website:
“MaRS has scanned the global social finance landscape — with input from local and global thought leaders and practitioners — to determine the opportunities and challenges supporting the growth of social ventures in Ontario. The outcome is our latest whitepaper, Social Venture Finance: Enabling solutions to complex social problems.
This whitepaper, generously supported by the Government of Ontario, provides an introduction to social venture financing and will be the first in a series discussing the opportunities and challenges faced by social ventures.”
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