Category: Social Enterprise

There was a time when the concepts of social responsibility and sustainable revenue lived in two separate worlds. For-profit businesses rarely considered the environment, their social impact on the world, or the importance of creating jobs for a purpose other than to generate revenue. Now, the concept of the triple bottom line, the introduction of…

The business world is changing at a rapid pace and it’s beginning to focus on more than just finance as a bottom line. In fact, many businesses are working toward developing a triple bottom line. The triple bottom line is one of many business models working to increase social objectives into the workforce. The triple…

In 2018 The Government of Ontario awarded Georgian College $264,000 from the Social Enterprise Demonstration Fund to support a $528,000 project focused on growing social enterprise across the college’s seven campus communities in the counties of Simcoe, Muskoka, Dufferin and Grey. The two-year project will be managed by the Social Enterprise Network of Central Ontario (senco),…

‘Purpose’ is now a powerful force helping companies build deeper consumer connections and improve competitiveness Fifty-five percent of Canadian consumers prefer to buy goods and services from companies that stand for a shared purpose that reflects their personal values and beliefs, and are ditching those that don’t, according to new research from Accenture. The fourteenth…