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Social Procurement & Enterprise Development (SPEnD)

Posted on Friday, March 31st, 2023

Information about SPEnD, its four pillars, milestones, and accomplishments in the first phase.

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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.


Short Description:

SPEnD is a 3-year research initiative of Algonquin College’s Social Innovation Lab, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.


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Screenshot of SPEnD’s website, which contains the program’s survey and more information on social enterprises and the program. The SPEnD team and Jenn Collins of IBM Canada pose with their favorite UN SDGs at the Social Innovation Lab’s red couch.
The SPEnD Team poses for a photo at the Unleashed Conference 2023, hosted by the Centre for Social Enterprise Development (CSED). The SPEnD team poses at the Social Innovation Lab during its open house to celebrate SDG Week and International Women’s Day


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