What Becomes Possible When Relationships Come First
How Young Agrarians and IndigenEYEZ partnered to grow more relationships between farmers and First Nations Since 2012, Young Agrarians, a farmer-to-farmer educational resource network, has worked to support new and next-generation farmers across the…
How This Charity Built a Tech Social Enterprise to Transform Nonprofit Data Collection – and Fund Its Mission
Starting with a vision to free up frontline workers’ time, Edmonton-based IslamicFamily worked with Purppl to build, validate, and sell trauma-informed case management software For the people IslamicFamily serves – newcomers, families, youth –…
Incubating rural social enterprise with Community Futures East Kootenay
When you equip rural leaders with the right support, they’ll move ideas into action into economic resilience through social enterprise In a region where community organizations are often stretched to meet complex needs with…
Our Journey Together Piloting Leadership-for-Reconciliation Coaching
Co-developed by kinSHIFT and Purppl, this program brings together non-Indigenous and Indigenous impact leaders to practice building respectful relationships. When BEEM Credit Union (formed by the merger of Interior Savings and Gulf & Fraser)…
Part Thrift Store, Part Social Work
Like so many nonprofit leaders today, Liz Gomes was searching for ways to combat inflation and funding precarity in order to sustain her organization’s growing impact. She began her career fresh out of university as…
When Grant Funding Dried Up, They Bought the Business
How one rural nonprofit is reclaiming economic power — and reimagining community development through tourism In small rural communities, economic development often relies on creativity, relationships, and a lot of hard work. But for Trails…
Story of Impact: Streamlining systems for increased access to employment
How an inclusive employment cooperative developed their operational capacity and increased revenue Founded in 2005 as a for-profit cooperative, Penticton and Area Cooperative Enterprises (PACE) creates employment opportunities for people living with barriers. Providing recycling…
Community Wealth Building through Asset Ownership
Building wealth through community ownership – and setting realistic expectations Community ownership offers pathways for building long-term collective health and wealth for a community, and is critical to the sustainability of the social economy and…
Story of Impact: Building the pitch to expand a Métis food brand
How Rad Relish Scaled Their Operations by Clearly Articulating their Social Purpose Led by Garrett Millsap, Rad Relish sells a unique farm-to-table zucchini relish based on a recipe by his Métis grandmother. Made from WestKelowna,…
Purposeful People Spotlight: Roxie
Meet Roxie Van Aller, Purppl Entrepreneur In Residence “Moving beyond my own personal challenges inspired my belief in the power of resiliency and the desire to help others move into the fullness of their own…
Changing human behaviour, one social enterprise at a time
Photo Credit: Friendly Composting Social entrepreneurs like Katie and Claire are part of a growing, global movement of people pairing purpose and profit. When Katie Forsyth and Claire McLoughlin decided to go into business together…
Recently Launched Social Enterprise makes impact on Canada’s first national Day for Truth & Reconciliation
Photo Credit: Kelly Terbasket overlooking her family’s traditional territory, at nkwrulauxw (yellow dirt). Photo by Chehala Leonard kinSHIFT generates over 700 paid registrations in 3 months, for workshop series for non-Indigenous settlers. South Okanagan…
