Associations and Networks:
Ashoka
Email: info@ashoka.org
Ashoka seeks the most innovative, emerging social entrepreneurs and invests in them by supporting them financially and professionally through their global fellowship program. Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka - Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social entrepreneurship. Its mission is to provide inspiration, resources, and opportunities for those interested in social change throughout the world.
Canadian
Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
3-30Q Business Building University of Alberta Edmonton,
Alberta T6G 2R6, Canada
Phone: (780) 492-0187
Fax: (780) 492-3325
Email: ccse@ualberta.ca
The Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (CCSE) is unique in Canada in its mission to work with all three sectors - voluntary, government and business - to build the foundations necessary to encourage entrepreneurial approaches to social innovation.
Canadian
Co-operative Association
(BC
Region)
1800
- 555 West Hastings Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 4N5
Phone: (604) 662-3906 Toll
Free: 1-888-494-2944
Fax: (604) 662-5642
Email:
restakis@ccabc.bc.ca
CCA supports its member organizations
through the provision of the following services: government affairs and policy;
business facilitation; planning and coordination; information; education and
training; the provision of a "common table" to bring various co-operative
sectors together; co-operative development; and communications. CCA also holds
a national Congress every three years that features workshops, forums, and
presentations by leading co-operative and credit union experts and researchers.
C.D
Howe Institute
125 Adelaide Street East Toronto, Ontario M5C 1L7
Phone: 416.865.1904
Fax: 416.865.1866
E-mail: cdhowe@cdhowe.org
An independent, nonprofit, economic and social policy research institution.
Centre
for Community Enterprise
PO Box 1161, Port Alberni, BC V9Y 7M1 Canada.
Phone: 1.888.255.6779
Fax: 1.250.723.1922.
Email: mcnair@junction.net
At the Centre for Community Enterprise, we make it our business to keep tabs on community economic development know-how, so we can all learn from the best. If you're after inspiring, practical, and provocative resources to assist your community, this is the place.
Community Futures (British Columbia)
Community Futures Development Corporations foster local
entrepreneurship, promote, coordinate and implement a variety of community
development initiatives within their respective rural communities. CFDCs offer
a variety of entrepreneurial programs, business counseling, loan programs
and business information to community members interested in expanding or starting
their own businesses.
Success stories of Community Development Corporations
Co-operative
Housing Federation of BC
Co-operative Housing Federation of BC 200 – 5550 Fraser
Street Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z4
Phone: 604-879-5111 Toll-free (in BC): 1-866-879-5111
Fax: 604-879-4611
Email: info@chf.bc.ca
A co-operative association whose members are housing co-ops and related organizations
in British Columbia.
Downtown Eastside Residents Association
(DERA)
1 -
425 Carral St. Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6E3 Canada
Phone: 604-682-0931
Fax: 604-669-5499
Email: dera@vcn.bc.ca
DERA is one of the downtown eastside's oldest and largest community organizations. DERA operates several social enterprise initiatives and affordable housing projects, organizes advocacy campaigns, and liaises with film crews in the local area.
The Enterprise Foundation rebuilds communities. We work with partners to provide low-income people with affordable housing, safer streets and access to jobs and child care. We also help strengthen nonprofit organizations working in community development.
The
Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada
P.O. Box 40043 75 King Street South Waterloo, On,
N2J, 4V1
Phone: 1.800.665.4497
Fax: 519.885.0990
Email: entinst@sympatico.ca
Federation For Enterprise Development
A non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the use of entrepreneurial employee ownership nationally and internationally, in both the public and private sectors, as a way to build high performing enterprises and improve corporate performance. Nice Resource Library
Institute
for Social Entrepreneurs
9560 Dogwood Circle Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55347-3028
Phone: 952-942-7715
FAX: 952-942-8059
E-mail: jerr@orbis.net
Provides education and training for social entrepreneurs in the United States and abroad and draws upon a virtual community of social entrepreneurs and others to collaborate on specific projects.
National
Center for Social Entrepreneurs
Phone: 1.800.696.4066
Email: info@socialentrepreneurs.org
The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs and the affiliated International Centre for Social Entrepreneurs both have the mission "to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the nonprofit sector and to help individual nonprofits think and act in an entrepreneurial manner."
Planning
Institute of British Columbia
The Planning Institute of British Columbia is an
association of professional planners in British Columbia and the Yukon. PIBC
members work in the public service and the private sector, in a wide variety
of fields including land use planning, environmental resource management,
land development, heritage conservation, social planning, transportation planning
and economic development.
Social
Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI)
1110 Finch Avenue West, Suite 406 North York, Ontario
M3J 2T2
Phone: 416.665.2828
Fax: 416.665.1661
Email: info@sedi.org
Enabling poor, unemployed and under-employed people to build and act on their enterpreneurial potential is what SEDI is all about.
Social
Venture Network
Phone: 415-561-6501
Fax: 415-561-6435
Email: svn@svn.org
A place where socially conscious entrepreneurs can meet, teach, support and create new ventures with each other. SVN promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century. We champion this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen our community and empower our members to work together on behalf of their shared vision.
Find out about the many neighbourhoods that make up the City of Vancouver. Each community has a list of services and resources (libraries, community centres, parks), profile information (history and demographics), community events, projects & initiatives, and more!
Volunteer
Vancouver
#301-3102
Main St. Vancouver, BC Canada V5T 3G7
Phone: (604) 875-9144
Fax: (604) 875-0710
Email:
Check the website for a current list of development workshops and training seminars. Customized training and consultation services are also available. The Community Investment Network. Bringing together not-for-profit organizations and businesses, the Community Investment Forum (CIF) will offer a unique opportunity for each sector to learn about, and from, each other. Resource library. Volunteer Vancouver's membership is comprised of almost 600 not-for-profit organizations and individuals.
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