P-A Community Conversations
The Perth-Andover Community Conversations Initiative has been around since winter of 2013. Being a community-building geek, I have been following the work of The Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, based in Kitchen-Waterloo for the past few years. Institute President, Paul Born, and author of Community Conversations, sums up the...
Greed is a Good Thing
By Linda Nicholas Editor’s Note: On April 25 a Social Enterprise Development Dialog was presented at the Pond-Deshpande Centre in Saint John. Several folks from Perth-Andover attended the presentation, the following essay is from Linda Nicholas, who attended the dialog. Social Enterprise is For Profit Businesses creating Shared Values…...
Social Enterprise Workshop
In order for our villages to thrive and to revitalize our small town business communities the Social Enterprise Business Model offers the best of all worlds. Social Enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good as it provides jobs for workers and needed services and goods to...