Positions available: 3

‘Social enterprise’, for the purpose of this project: is a Canadian business; is created with a primary aim of achieving an environmental, social, and/or cultural impact; and is operated by a community-based organization.

The BC Centre for Social Enterprise has recently launched the Canadian Social Enterprise Directory.

Users will be able to search the directory by location, social cause, and offering: 1. as a shopper, to find goods + services being offered by social enterprises e.g. someone wants to buy baked goods from a Calgary bakery that is also hiring folks with employment challenges; and/or 2. as a social enterprise, to network with others in their field e.g. a bakery social enterprise in Toronto hopes to connect with another social enterprise bakery in Canada to chat about a specific challenge or to trade best practices, key suppliers, etc.

We seek folks to promote the Directory to Canadian social enterprises so that they can add their own listing.

• promote the Directory (mainly by email with some telephone follow-up) to Canadian social enterprises so that they can add their own listing to this free online directory
• draft email templates that we can use to promote the project to organizations so that they can share the news with their own non-profit membership base
• craft a plan on how to reach out to potential social enterprise customers, so that they can connect with and use the Directory once we have a critical mass of social enterprises listed

Supervision via Zoom, email, phone.