Social Procurement & Enterprise Development (SPEnD)
Posted on Friday, March 31st, 2023
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Professor(s) | Kevin Holmes Jaswinder Kaur |
Program | Business - Marketing, Marketing Research and Analysis, Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Digital Health |
Students | Grace Aoun , , Hilderruth Allan Shoo , , Kariman Okby , , Rebeca Feria Garcia , , Chelsea Julia Gomez |
Project Description:
SPEnD or Social Procurement and Development is a project intended to develop, curate, and disseminate research on the capacity of Canada’s college sector for social procurement and social finance and contribute to community wealth building through research and development of market-driven social enterprises.
SPEnD’s areas of research are social enterprises, social procurement, social finance, and social entrepreneurship. SPEnD is 3-year program at Algonquin College’s Social Innovation Lab, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.