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What are cooperative corporations?

Here's a Co-op 101 information session, part of a Community Ownership Collaborative's webinar on employee-owned businesses.

Are you planning for business succession?

A "silver tsunami" of boomer retirement is coming for small- and medium-businesses. Social acquisitions can be part of the solution.

Growing community-owned businesses

Broad-based ownership structures include employee or user cooperatives, NFP social enterprises, employee share ownership structures, and ...

Becoming a living wage region

The living wage in London is higher than the provincial legislated minimum wage: it’s $16.20 an hour. Several municipalities in Ontario h...

Creating community benefit agreements

Community Benefit Agreements and social procurement policies are a way to increase the social impact of government procurement and infras...

Harnessing the power of public anchors

A strategy to localize anchor institution supply chains begins with providing a comprehensive analysis of anchor institutions in the Lond...

The keys to an inclusive economy

Ted Howard, author of The Making of a Democratic Economy, sat down with London Pillar Non-Profit Network's Michelle Baldwin to talk about...

Four cornerstones of an inclusive economy

Public anchor institutions, community-owned enterprises, community benefit agreements, and a living wage are the ingredients of an inclus...

A green and inclusive recovery for Canada

Our path forward: Many people, cities and countries are realizing that going back to “business as usual” is not desirable. London Poverty...

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