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Posted: January 11, 2023
Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD
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A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022
Category: Community Economic Development, Employment, social enterprise Tags: Anne Lindsey, Manitoba
Last Updated: June 19, 2018
Social Enterprise improves food security in Garden Hill First Nation
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By Marina Puzyreva, Food insecurity is a pressing problem for thousands of Indigenous people living in remote reserves in the North of Manitoba. The new CCPA Manitoba report Harnessing the Potential of Social Enterprise in Garden Hill First …
Category: Aboriginal issues, social enterprise Tags: Manitoba, Marina Puzyreva
Last Updated: February 9, 2017
Time to give back to Manitoba’s north
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First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec. 6, 2016 By Lynne Fernandez Those of us who were hoping that the Throne Speech would have details about a strategy for Manitoba’s North were disappointed. There seems to be …
Category: Aboriginal issues, economy, environment, Labour, labour market, North, poverty, social enterprise, Uncategorized Tags: Lynne Fernandez, North
Last Updated: February 9, 2017
Social Enterprise Video
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Employees from BUILD and Manitoba Green Retrofit share their experiences working at social enterprises and the impacts this is has in their lives and communities. This documentary short includes highlights of the CCPA Manitoba study “Creating Pride Through …
Category: Aboriginal issues, Employment, Inner City, labour market, Manitoba, social enterprise, Uncategorized, Winnipeg Tags: Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Poverty Policy Choices and Winnipeg’s Inner City
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By Jim Silver Provincial government policy can be designed to punish those in poverty, or to reduce poverty. Both approaches have been tried in Manitoba, the first in the 1990s and the other more recently. We can compare …
Category: Aboriginal issues, CCPA-MB, colonialism, economic well-being, Election 2016, Inner City, Literacy, poverty, racism, social enterprise, social exclusion, Uncategorized, Winnipeg Tags: Jim Silver, Winnipeg
Last Updated: February 10, 2017
Investing in Social Enterprise to reduce poverty and green house gases
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By Lynne Fernandez A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The …
Last Updated: February 14, 2017
Are we as cooperative as we think we are?
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This post, by Brendan Reimer was originally posted by the Canadian Community Economic Development Network. This summer, I had the great privilege to be invited by Vancity Credit Union to join their two-week study tour of the Italian …
Category: democracy, economic well-being, economy, non profit, social enterprise Tags: Brendan Reimer, Manitoba
Last Updated: February 14, 2017
Book Launch: Inner City Renovation
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Please join us in celebrating the launch of Inner City Renovation: How a Social Enterprise Changes Lives and Communities by Marty Donkervoort Marty Donkervoort will give a short talk about his book on Thursday, September 19, 2013, 7:00pm
Category: Employment, Events, Inner City, social enterprise Tags: Marty Donkervoort, Winnipeg
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