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Working with Nomadic Women in Mongolia

March 19, 2008 - The fourth guest in Co-operation and the Social Economy: The 2008 BCICS/CSEHub Winter Speaker Series was Vanessa Hammond, member of the local co-op developer's co-op, The First Ownership Co-op (www.ownership.coop). Vanessa presented a lively lecture on her work helping to provide development and marketing assistance to women's co-operatives on behalf of the Co-operative Development Foundation.

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Wed, 03/19/2008
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Podcast of Telelearning Session #7 now available!

Thank you to all who participated in our most recent telelearning session, especially to our partners at CCEDNet, RIPESS, Économie solidaire de l'Ontario, and BALTA, as well as David Francis Thompson for his presentation! For more information, please click here:

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World Social Finance Summit 2008: Québec, Canada

World Social Finance Summit 2008

Hosted by INAISE and the Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins Towards a global network for Social Finance
Québec, Canada 5 - 6 June 2008
Coopérative Méduse 541, De Saint-Vallier Est Québec Qc
This conference will be fully carbon neutral. The carbon emission due to transportation of delegates will be offset in a responsible carbon project.

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ECO-SOC INFO Mars/March 2008

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The March 2008 ECO-SOC INFO bulletin of the Canada Research Chair on the Social Economy is now available on its website!

To read it, click here!

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Inmate-operated business and employment training cafe

As gifts for participants in the First International CIRIEC Research Conference on the Social Economy, CSEHub purchased fused glass candle shades from InsideArt Co-operative, an innovative initiative based in a correctional institution and coordinated by the Fraser Valley Centre for Social Enterprise.
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The Social Economy Movement Responds To The 2008 Federal Budget

FROM THE CANADIAN CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION:

No Movement On Key Co-Op Issues In Federal Budget

As promised by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, the third Conservative government budget was a low-key affair.

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Structure of CSEHub: Directors, Nodes, and Board Members

Co-directors:

Board Members:

1. Research Nodes

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Better Board Governance in Non-Profits

The BC Institute for Co-operative Studies/Canadian Social Economy Hub and the School of Public Administration present...

Bridging the Gap: Between the Ideal and Reality in the Governance of Non-Profit Organizations

with Vic Murray, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria

Thursday, March 6th
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Collard Room, Swans Hotel

Date: 
Thu, 03/06/2008
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Our Mission and Objectives

Mission

To work with the regional research centres, national partners and others to foster research into the Social Economy so as to make it more accessible and useful to policy makers, Social Economy practitioners, and people in communities as well as for academic engagement.

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