For nearly twenty years, FoodShare Toronto has operated Canada’s first and arguably largest and most successful social enterprise nonprofit food hub, helping thousands access healthy, affordable, local and sustainably produced food through a variety of revenue...

Entrepreneurship is an action word. Having that entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to get a venture off the ground are just as important as that one great idea. Social entrepreneurs have the same perseverance as mainstream entrepreneurs with an extra bit of...

Wondering what all that B Corp talk is about? SEE Change contributor and legal advisor, Natalie McFarlane, breaks it down for you here.   There has been much ado south of the border about recent developments with B Corps (B stands for "Benefit") and the concomitant...

Ambitious pilot project aims to transition two Toronto neighbourhoods to carbon neutrality When it comes to carbon footprints, it’s no secret that cities wear some of the biggest shoes around. Canada’s largest city, known to some as the Big Smoke, is certainly no...

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Month One: Like a lot of social entrepreneurs out there, we weren’t necessarily looking to enter the field. In fact, we weren’t really thinking like entrepreneurs at all. We were thinking like creators, writers, publishers. We saw the potential that social...

Earlier this year, richest men in the world numbers two and three developed a Giving Pledge that implored billionaires the world over to give at least half of their earnings to charity. Of the forty that are complying, richest man in the world #1 is noticeably...

In 2006, Statistics Canada forecast that one in five Canadian entrepreneurs would be retiring within the next five years. That timeline is knocking on our door now. What’s more, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) projects that 71% of business owners will...

Last time, I wrote that social enterprise and entrepreneurship is a movement, not a model. I suggested that people could undertake various forms of action within its framework and still be tied to each other through the connective tissue of a common vision. It...