The pandemic was hard on small business owners, their staff and their communities. Cooperatives can be a viable, alternative business ownership model that creates both social and financial value for communities, and prioritizes people and planet as much as profit.
In a move to fulfil Canada’s promise to modernize the rules governing the charitable sector, the federal government created the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector (ACCS) a few years ago. But its internal practices are still not transparent or widely understood in the social sector.
Words matter. The language changemakers use to describe their work, their organizations and the communities they serve creates narratives that can either support or undermine their objectives.
