Social Enterprise & Community Development

Social enterprises are increasingly a tool in the community development toolbox. In November 2018, Drs. Natalie Slawinski and Blair Winsor from the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Harris Centre organized a workshop and a public forum on Fogo Island, Newfoundland,  to present the final results of a research project on the role of social enterprises in community development. Using the excerpts from that event and a conversation in the studio with Dr. John Schouten, Canada Research Chair in Social Enterprise, and Kimberly Orren, director of Fishing for Success, this episode of the Rural Policy Learning Commons‘ Rural Routes series is your primer on the role social enterprises could play in rural development.