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Enterprising change : Report of the 2015 social enterprise survey for Ontario

2 Dec 2015

While there is no one definition of social enterprise, most This is the purpose of the 2015 Social En- agree it involves the combination of business- terprise Survey for Ontario: To provide a savvy market activity with the mission-focused snapshot-in-time profile of this province’s purpose of the nonprofit/voluntary sector to social enterprise sector, in order to increase bring about positive impa [...] The support and collaboration of government and community-based organizations has enabled the development of a set of baseline data and policy recommendations for social enterprise in the province. [...] IN ONTARIO 18 SECTION 2 Definition of Social Enterprise In order to select a sample of survey respondents, it is first necessary to clearly define what char- acterizes the ‘full population’ of social enterprises to be surveyed; the diversity of and lack of consensus regarding social enterprise makes this challenging. [...] The original list in the known sample frame To see the complete for-profit questionnaire, contained 362 different social enterprises refer to the 2014 For-profit Social Enterprise of which 93 completed the survey. [...] The older age of the housing sector is likely a reflection of the decline of public funding for social and affordable housing in Ontario and Canada since the 1990s (Gaetz, 2010).
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Authors

Chamberlain, Paul, Prindiville, Taralyn, Gillis, Kelly

Pages
163
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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