Balance, scale, and good sense mean good business

Balance, scale, and good sense mean good business

“I didn’t know it was to help. I thought it was business,” said a friend about one of Vancouver’s most popular social enterprise storefronts. “It’s both,” I responded, echoing the key to success for those on stage and in the audience at Enterprising Non-Profits’...
Skoll World Forum is this week

Skoll World Forum is this week

Each year, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders and strategic partners gather at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford to exchange ideas, solutions and information. What’s in store this year? Kofi Annan...
Ten Thousand Villages stores shuttered

Ten Thousand Villages stores shuttered

While Canada’s largest city is inching closer to becoming a Fair Trade Town, the biggest and oldest fair trade retailer in the country recently announced a major restructuring and mass layoff. In mid-March, Ten Thousand Villages, with headquarters in New Hamburg,...

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