Join Buy Social Canada to share stories and progress from the social enterprise sector in Canada as we celebrate how far we’ve come, and look ahead at what’s next as we continue to build a marketplace that centres social enterprise as the business model of the future.

September 10, 2024

10am-12pm PT / 1pm-3pm ET

Online via Airmeet

Social enterprise is a business model whose core purpose is to create a more equitable, inclusive, and just society. It is a key pillar in the establishment of a social value marketplace: a marketplace that contributes to building community wealth, rather than extracting human and natural value to accumulate private economic profits.

This year we are celebrating 10 years of Buy Social Canada. We will launch a new free resource, the Guide to Social Enterprise. This Guide builds on the first two editions of the Canadian Social Enterprise Guide, and our decade of work to certify, champion and build capacity for social enterprises in Canada. We can’t wait to share it with you at the Marketplace Impact event. 

This will be a free, engaging event to promote and advance social enterprise best practices. The event features insights from speakers, a new free resource for a social enterprise business plan, and opportunities for conversation and networking with peers.

Speakers include:

• Michael Toye, Executive Director of CCEDNet
• Julia Anderson, Manager of Health Services for First Light, which operates Lunar Inn, a Certified Social Enterprise
• Tracy F. Barry, Founder and CEO of Certified Social Enterprise GROW Women Leaders
• Marc Soberano, Founder and Executive Director of Certified Social Enterprise Building Up
• Jessica Mulder, Board member and Chair of FoodShare Toronto’s Social Enterprise Committee

Read the full event agenda here, and register now.

Thank you to Chandos Construction for sponsoring this event.