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Creating a culture of community benefit agreements
With hundreds of millions of dollars in new infrastructure spending in London, we need to advocate for community benefit agreements.


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...


Creating community benefit agreements
Community Benefit Agreements and social procurement policies are a way to increase the social impact of government procurement and...


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...


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...


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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