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Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change

Edited by Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan and Andrea Chan

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Published: December 2014

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 324 Pages

Illustrations: 7 figures

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

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ISBN: 9781442614048

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Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins of society.

Using a variety of research methods, the contributors examine the work of social purpose enterprises in a range of businesses including food services, child care, furniture, courier services, and microfinance. Combining the experience of academics and practitioners, each chapter analyses the economic, social, and policy implications of the case.

Building on research published in Researching the Social Economy (2010) and Businesses with a Difference (2013), Social Purpose Enterprises provides a valuable resource for those involved in the growing push to encourage market-based solutions for those on the social margins.

Jack Quarter was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Sherida Ryan is a post-doctoral fellow, co-director of the Social Economy Centre and faculty member with the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Andrea Chan is a research associate at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Preface

1. Social Purpose Enterprises: A Conceptual Framework
JACK QUARTER, SHERIDA RYAN, ANDREA CHAN

Section A: Marginalized by Stigma

2. Common Ground Co-operative: Supporting Employment Options
FRANCES OWEN, ANNE READHEAD, COURTNEY BISHOP, JENNIFER HOPE, JEANNETTE CAMPBELL

3. When the Business is People: The Impact of A-Way Express Courier
KUNLE AKINGBOLA

4. Miziwe Biik Case Study: Microloans in the Urban Aboriginal Community
MARY FOSTER, IDA BERGER, KENN ROSS, KRISTINE NEGLIA

5. Groupe Convex: Measuring its Impact
USHNISH SENGUPTA, CAROLINE ARCAND, ANN ARMSTRONG

Section B: Women on the Social Margins

6. Inspirations Studio at Sistering: A Systems Analysis
AGNES MEINHARD, ANNIE LOK, PAULINE O’CONNOR

7. Micro-Entrepreneurs in Economic Turbulence: The Alterna Savings Micro-Finance Program
EDWARD T. JACKSON, SUSAN HENRY, CHINYERE AMADI

8. Canadian Immigrants and their Access to Services: A Case Study of a Social Purpose Enterprise
MARLENE WALK, ITAY GREENSPAN, HONEY CROSSLEY, FEMIDA HANDY

9. Wellbeing of Childcare Workers at the Learning Enrichment Foundation, a Toronto Community Economic Development Organization
ANDREA CHAN, ROBYN HOOGENDAM, PETER FRAMPTON, ANDREW HOLETON, EMILY POHL WEARY, SHERIDA RYAN, JACK QUARTER

Section C: Urban Poor and Immigrants

10. Doing Markets Differently: FoodShare Toronto’s Good Food Markets
MICHAEL CLASSENS, J.J. MCMURTRY, JENNIFER SUMNER

11. Stakeholders’ Stories of Impact: The Case of Furniture Bank
ANDREA CHAN, LAURIE MOOK, SUSANNA KISLENKO

12. Northwood Translation Bureau
JENNIFER HANN, DANIEL SCHUGURENSKY

Section D: Youth

13. Market-based Solutions for At-Risk Youth: River Restaurant
RAYMOND DART

14. Social Purpose Enterprises: A Modified Social Welfare Framework
JACK QUARTER, SHERIDA RYAN, ANDREA CHAN

Contributors

‘The book offers an excellent starting position for researchers and practioners dedicated to finding solutions for local social development in a rapidly growing field intended to serve people living and working at the social margins.’
Tobias Bürger, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector quarterly vol 45:01:2016

‘This book does an excellent job at explaining the inner-workings of social purpose institutions.’
Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Voluntas May 2016

‘This book does an excellent job at explaining the inner workings of social purpose institutions.’
Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Voluntas vol 27:04:2016

“Social Purpose Enterprises illustrates the great variety of fields in which we now find social purpose enterprises and presents a number of effective approaches that can be used to assess their impact. The case studies will resonate with a wide audience: university students, researchers, leaders of social economy organizations and social purpose enterprises, and funders of these initiatives.”
Luc Theriault, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick

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