Social Enterprises in the Canadian West
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22230/cjnser.2015v6n1a194Keywords:
Social enterprise, Canadian West, Social enterprise sector survey / Entreprise sociale, Ouest canadien, Sondage sur le secteur de l’entreprise socialeAbstract
Western Canada has been the source of significant developments in the social enterprise sector over the past fifteen years. Among these developments one must include the formation of Enterprising Non-Profits in British Columbia, the Social Enterprise Fund in Alberta, and the Canadian CED Network in Manitoba. Underlying these more recent developments is a history of co-operative development and earned revenues by nonprofit organizations, reflecting a longstanding blend of entrepreneurship and community solidarity. This article highlights some of the more recent social enterprise developments in three Western provinces, profiling three independent cases that reflect the diversity of social enterprise activity in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba, and providing the results of social enterprise sector surveys that took place in these same provinces in 2014.
Depuis quinze ans, l’Ouest canadien a été la source de développements importants dans le secteur de l’entreprise sociale. Parmi ces développements, il faut inclure la formation : d’Enterprising Non-Profits en Colombie-Britannique; du Social Enterprise Fund en Alberta; et du Réseau canadien de DÉC au Manitoba. Sous-tendant ces progrès récents est une longue histoire de développements coopératifs et de revenus gagnés par des organismes sans but lucratif reflétant une combinaison d’entreprenariat et de solidarité communautaire. Cet article souligne certains des développements plus récents en entreprise sociale dans trois provinces de l’Ouest, recensant trois cas distincts qui reflètent la diversité des activités en entreprise sociale en Colombie-Britannique, en Alberta et au Manitoba, et présentant les résultats de sondages sur le secteur de l’entreprise sociale effectués dans ces trois provinces en 2014.
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