Over the past year especially, we have witnessed the notion of a separate Canadian legal structure for social enterprise taking root. Recently, in a project led by Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development, we at the BC Centre for Social Enterprise had the pleasure of supporting a Canada-wide poll of the social enterprise sector. The survey asked community-based social enterprise operators, and thought leaders on the topic, whether they perceived a need for a separate Canadian legal structure for social enterprise, and if so, what characteristics such a structure should contain.
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SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of July 4, 2011.
Social finance is often discussed on a domestic level. However, it could and should play a role in a global sustainable development context as well. It is urgently needed to tackle some of the most basic challenges for sustainable development: fighting hunger, reducing the need for fossil energy and creating a knowledge-based democracy.
