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How Government Support for Social Enterprise can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases
January 8, 2016 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The provincial …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases
January 8, 2016 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The provincial …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Implications of Hydroelectric Partnerships in Northern Manitoba: Do Partnership Agreements Provide Social License?
September 22, 2015 | Authored by: Joseph Dipple
Over the past century, Manitoba has promoted the construction of hydroelectric dams as a means of producing energy. These projects are produced on Indigenous territory and bring these communities into direct conflict with the province and Manitoba Hydr …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Work Life: Making the Case for a Labour Market Intermediary
April 10, 2015 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon
There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are looking for skilled workers. Second of all, our large and young Aboriginal population …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Making the case for a Labour Market Intermediary: The Experience of BUILD
April 10, 2015 | Authored by: Kirsten Bernas, Shauna MacKinnon
This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Manitoba. The purpose is to build upon evidence that demonstrates how and why a Labour Market Int …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development, Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Aboriginal Women, Mining Negotiations, and Project Development: Analyzing the motivations and priorities shaping leadership and participation
February 23, 2015 | Authored by: Stephanie C. LaBelle
The major objective of this thesis is to assess the role and contributions of Aboriginal women to mining negotiations and project development. Utilizing qualitative feminist research methodology, this research incorporated the perspectives of several p …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Social Impact Bonds: An Update
January 22, 2015 | Authored by: John Loxley, Marina Puzyreva
In an earlier paper (Loxley, 2013) it was argued that Social Impact Bonds are a recent innovation in the financing of social services and are becoming more popular with governments, service agencies and private and charitable financing bodies. It is di …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Tribulations and Tears: Stories from the Youth of Norway House Cree Nation
September 10, 2014 | Authored by: Gilbert Fredette
The nuances within the youth of the Norway House Cree Nation along with the escalation in drugs, gangs and violence have led to climbing incarceration rates within the youth population. This has resulted in social devastation in the community over the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Fast Facts: World Urban Forum 7 – Policy Lessons from Colombia
May 13, 2014 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, Sara Swartz
For one week in early April, Sara Swartz (Universitas Programme of the KIP International School), Shauna MacKinnon (Manitoba Research Alliance [MRA] and University of Winnipeg [UW]) and Lynne Fernandez (MRA and CCPA MB) visited Medellin, Colombia to ta …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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A Family Living Wage for Manitoba: 2013 Calculation Guide
November 22, 2013 | Authored by: Scott Jarosiewicz
The purpose of this guide is to assist others in calculating a living wage for their own communities, using the method developed by the CCPA-BC and First Call to calculate Vancouver and Victoria living wages in 2008. This particular guide will be most …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
