On March 3, the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada hosted Canada’s first Crowdfunding Summit at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. A sold-out crowd of more than 350 attended. Like many other social entrepreneurs in attendance, I was there trying to...
It may be (really) cold outside but SEE Change’s 5th Year Anniversary got off to a sizzling start thanks to our Food Security event on Feb 3. From the eloquent expert panel to the engaged and inquisitive audience who packed the room at Toronto’s Centre for...
SEE Change Magazine is working on an exciting new project and we’d love your input. We’re profiling 10 social change movements and/or events in Canadian history (with a focus on the 20th century) that have impacted the country and helped define who we are...
Some 8,000 miles away from the United States is a warm and colorful community known as Ward 12. One of the most densely populated slums in Khalishpur, Khulna, Bangladesh, in Ward 12 access to safe sanitation and clean drinking water is severely limited – and a...
Definitions of social enterprise vary. If we include in this definition “market/fee based services for social goods”, I would list some ‘government functions’ under the umbrella. Government isn’t normally thought of as good at business or...
Egypt today has an unemployment rate of 13.4%. It’s a challenge that many are trying to solve, with (social) entrepreneurship playing a significant role. Entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly a new concept in the MENA region but we started to hear more about it after the...
