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ResourceSep 10th, 2024
New Buy Social Canada Resource: Guide to Social Enterprise
Buy Social Canada is thrilled to release a new resource today, the Guide to Social Enterprise: Plan, sustain and grow your impact with a social enterprise business plan. A valuable […]
ResourceAug 21st, 2024
New Sell with Impact 2023 Snapshot shares updates from a vibrant social enterprise ecosystem
Social enterprise is a powerful business model to tackle the challenges our economy and communities are facing today. Buy Social Canada sees the movement for social enterprise growing steadily as […]
ResourceJul 18th, 2024
New Buy with Impact 2023 Snapshot shares data and stories of social procurement progress in Canada
The progress of social procurement across Canada is unprecedented and encouraging. People and organizations are working together to add value to procurement in multiple ways; through social procurement, Indigenous procurement, […]
ResourceMay 16th, 2024
New Community Benefits in Construction: Mandate, Design and Implement Guide
We’re thrilled to launch a new free resource, the Community Benefits in Construction: Mandate, Design and Implement Guide. The Guide shares best practices for including community benefits in construction, infrastructure, […]
ResourceMay 6th, 2024
Six steps to social acquisition
A social acquisition is the process by which a conventional enterprise is acquired and restructured into a social enterprise or other form of social purpose organization. This literature review on social […]
ResourceSep 11th, 2023
Book Chapter: Achieving the UN SDGs Through the Integration of Social Procurement in Construction Projects
This chapter, written by Buy Social Canada team members David LePage and Emma Renaerts, is an excerpt from the book “The Role of Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Advancing […]
ResourceAug 30th, 2022
Factsheets summarize social procurement research in the Australian Construction Sector
Read insightful and snappy factsheets summarizing recent international peer-reviewed research lead by University of Technology Sydney (UTS), shared by our esteemed colleague Martin Loosemore. Martin Loosemore is Distinguished Professor of […]
ResourceApr 4th, 2022
Learn the skills to buy and sell with impact with Buy Social Canada training courses
Together we are redefining how goods and services are bought and sold. Education is a critical tool as we work to embed social value and transform our purchasing. Buy Social […]
ResourceJul 20th, 2021
Exploring Community Wealth Building Through Social Procurement in Ontario — Final Report
Throughout Ontario, social procurement is contributing towards the creation of inclusive, vibrant and healthy communities. This report recaps a five-part knowledge series that examined the Ontario social procurement ecosystem – social enterprises as suppliers, social […]
ResourceMar 31st, 2021
Social Value Menu for Goods and Services
The latest in the Social Value Menu series features templates for social procurement implementation for goods and services. This Social Value Menu will help you design, evaluate and implement the […]
ResourceMar 24th, 2021
Guide to Social Procurement in Construction and Infrastructure Projects
Just released, a new tool to apply social procurement to various construction models. In the Guide to Social Procurement in Construction and Infrastructure Projects we outline a path to increase […]
ResourceMar 2nd, 2021
Downtown Eastside Social Enterprise Impact Report 2020
The 28 social enterprises surveyed were all impacted by COVID-19 in 2020. Some closed for good while others pivoted and prospered This year has revealed the ability for the social […]
ResourceMay 26th, 2020
New Tools for Community Employment Benefit and Community Benefit Agreement Implementation
Just released, the updated Buy Social Canada Social Value Menu now has two new versions: Community Benefit Agreements and Community Employment Benefits. Both are available for free to download now. […]