Posts
- ‘Tis the Season to #GiftSocial
- #GiftSocial this holiday season
- A story from Building Up: How to purchase community value by doing business with a social enterprise
- Approvisionnement avec retombées pour créer des possibilités d’emploi pour les personnes en situation de handicap (Français)
- April 2022 Newsletter
- April 2023 Newsletter
- April 2024 Newsletter
- April 2025 Newsletter
- August 2021 Newsletter
- August 2022 Newsletter
- August 2023 Newsletter
- August 2024 Newsletter
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can procurement advance reconciliation?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can social procurement address climate change?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can social procurement engage Indigenous businesses?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can social procurement increase food security?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can social procurement support diversity and inclusion?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power Recap: How can social procurement support my local economy?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power: How can procurement help address poverty?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power: How can procurement help reduce hazardous chemicals?
- BCSPI Purchasing Power: How can procurement support zero waste?
- BCSPI Webinar Recap: Lessons Learned Supporting Local Governments to Adopt Social Procurement
- Book Chapter: Achieving the UN SDGs Through the Integration of Social Procurement in Construction Projects
- Broad New Horizons: Symposium 2022 Recap
- BSCPI Purchasing Power: How can procurement support housing affordability?
- Busting Social Procurement Myths
- Buy Social Canada commits to Net-Zero by 2030
- Buy Social Canada: Proud Living Wage Employer
- Buy with Impact at the Vancouver Social Enterprise Marketplace
- Buy with impact to create employment opportunities for persons with disabilities
- Canada’s first social procurement consulting company celebrates 10 years of championing economic and social impact
- Canada’s new Modern Slavery Act is an extension of good social procurement practices
- Canadian Social Enterprises create healthy, vibrant communities by supporting persons with disabilities
- Celebrate Social Procurement Champion Awards at the 2022 Buy Social Canada Symposium
- Celebrate the 2023 Social Procurement Champion Award recipients on May 25
- Celebrating David LePage’s Career and Retirement
- Choisir la bonne stratégie d’approvisionnement en fonction de ses objectifs (Français)
- Choose the right purchasing strategy for your goals
- City of Vancouver CBA Policy boosts construction sector impact on local projects
- Complementary Missions: Community Finance and Social Procurement
- Creating change through social procurement with SAP’s Stephen Young
- December 2021 Newsletter
- December 2022 Newsletter
- December 2023 Newsletter
- December 2024 Newsletter
- Destination Vancouver champions social procurement in tourism, hospitality and events
- Embed data collection to improve social procurement measurement and reporting
- Event agenda for Marketplace Impact: A National Conversation on Social Procurement
- Event agenda for Marketplace Impact: Procurement for Resilient Communities on May 27, 2025
- Event Agenda for Marketplace Impact: Social Enterprise Forward on September 10
- Event Agenda for Marketplace Impact: Social Enterprise Research and Stories
- Event Agenda for Marketplace Impact: Social Procurement in Action
- Event Recap from Marketplace Impact: Social Enterprise Forward
- Event recap from Marketplace Impact: Social Enterprise Research and Stories
- Event Recap from Marketplace Impact: Social Procurement in Action
- Exploring Community Wealth Building Through Social Procurement in Ontario — Final Report
- Factsheets summarize social procurement research in the Australian Construction Sector
- February 2022 Newsletter
- February 2023 Newsletter
- February 2024 Newsletter
- February 2025 Newsletter
- From 0.1% to 10% in 10 years: Social Enterprise Council of Canada and Buy Social Canada call for BDC Support for Social Enterprise to Grow
- From Uncertainty to Opportunity, here is how to Buy Local and Buy Social
- Give a gift that gives back when you #GiftSocial
- Global News BC highlights social enterprises
- Here’s how social enterprises define success
- Hope and Momentum for Continued Economic Transformation in 2025
- How to Connect Social Goals, Budget Restraints and Social Procurement
- In Memoriam: David LePage
- Is the Social Finance Fund the inclusive solution?
- It’s time to #GiftSocial and give back to community
- January 2022 Newsletter
- January 2023 Newsletter
- January 2024 Newsletter
- January 2025 Newsletter
- Job Posting: Operations Coordinator
- Job Posting: Operations Lead
- Job Posting: Social Procurement Consultant
- Job Posting: Social Procurement Consultant
- Job Posting: Social Procurement Coordinator
- July 2021 Newsletter
- July 2022 Newsletter
- July 2023 Newsletter
- July 2024 Newsletter
- June 2021 newsletter
- June 2022 Newsletter
- June 2023 Newsletter
- June 2024 Newsletter
- L’entreprise sociale et la révolution du marché : Un manifeste pour l’avenir (Français)
- Lead by example: Private-sector purchasers drive their sectors forward with action
- Learn the skills to buy and sell with impact with Buy Social Canada training courses
- Make a resolution to advance the marketplace revolution
- March 2022 Newsletter
- March 2023 Newsletter
- March 2024 Newsletter
- March 2025 Newsletter
- Marketplace Impact May 2023 Event Recap
- May 2022 Newsletter
- May 2023 Newsletter
- May 2024 Newsletter
- Measure what matters: Buy Social Canada social procurement spend 2024
- More than a structure: Construction projects build community
- Movement leaders and innovators: Municipalities advance the marketplace revolution
- New Buy Social Canada Resource: Guide to Social Enterprise
- New Buy with Impact 2023 Snapshot shares data and stories of social procurement progress in Canada
- New Community Benefits in Construction: Mandate, Design and Implement Guide
- New Sell with Impact 2023 Snapshot shares updates from a vibrant social enterprise ecosystem
- New social enterprise research: $4 billion in annual revenue plus stories of impact prove social enterprise is an economic force for good
- New St. Paul’s Hospital CBA Delivers Community Benefits in Vancouver
- New St. Paul’s hospital construction continues to exceed community benefit agreement goals
- Nominate champions of social procurement and social enterprise
- November 2021 Newsletter
- November 2022 Newsletter
- November 2023 Newsletter
- November 2024 Newsletter
- October 2021 Newsletter
- October 2022 Newsletter
- October 2023 Newsletter
- October 2024 Newsletter
- One year in: CBA implementation at New St. Paul’s Hospital
- PCL contracts Buy Social Canada to assist with St Paul’s Hospital Community Benefit Agreement implementation
- Purchasing with Impact: An update from City of Calgary
- Purpose businesses buy with impact
- Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and City of Calgary pass social procurement unanimously
- Register now for Marketplace Impact: Procurement for Resilient Communities on May 27, 2025
- Response to the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) 2022-23 Legislative Review
- Sell with Impact in Logan, Australia
- September 2021 Newsletter
- September 2022 Newsletter
- September 2023 Newsletter
- September 2024 Newsletter
- Six steps to social acquisition
- Social enterprise and the marketplace revolution: A manifesto for the future
- Social enterprise champions innovate and collaborate to meet demand
- Social Enterprise Marketplace Debut at the Bentall Centre Pop-Ups
- Social enterprises across Canada create community capital by supporting immigrants and newcomers
- Social Procurement Champion Award winners take action for impact
- Social procurement grows across British Columbia municipalities with the expansion of CCSPI
- Social procurement perceptions range from extortion to essential
- Social procurement solutions for 2022: Growing the movement of community capital creators
- Social Procurement Today and Tomorrow: A recap of the Buy Social Canada Symposium 2021
- Social value isn’t just nice, it’s necessary: The marketplace revolution in 2024 and beyond
- Social Value Marketplace Podcast: Episode 1 with Nancy Neamtan
- Social Value Marketplace Podcast: Episode 2 with Stephen Young, SAP
- Social Value Marketplace Podcast: Episode 3 with Tim Coldwell, Chandos
- Social Value Marketplace Podcast: Episode 4 with Martin Loosemore
- Social Value Marketplace Podcast: Episode 5 with David LePage
- Symposium 2022 Program Broad New Horizons
- The Games are coming, and the winner is… community!
- The Social Economy Ecosystem calls on the Federal Government to continue support for Social Innovation and Social Finance
- Un an après : la mise en œuvre de l’entente sur les retombées locales au nouvel hôpital St Paul’s (Français)
- Updates from the Marketplace Revolution: Government of Canada’s social procurement journey
- Voici comment les entreprises sociales définissent le succès (Français)
- Webinar recap – Net-Zero Procurement: How to engage suppliers in the race to net-zero
- Welcome Green Shield Canada, the newest Certified Social Enterprise
- Welcome to Seal the Deal Fund where we help make contracts happen
- Westbank contracts Buy Social Canada to assist with CBA implementation on 150 West Georgia Project
- Who is Buy Social Canada?
- Why certification? Benefits for social enterprises
- What is Social Procurement?
- What is Social Enterprise?
- Social Value Menu for Goods and Services
- East Van Roasters Ready for Easter and a New Business Model
- Guide to Social Procurement in Construction and Infrastructure Projects
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: Hives For Humanity
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: Infiniguard
- Social Procurement Award Winners!
- Downtown Eastside Social Enterprise Impact Report 2020
- Social Procurement in 2021: Unprecedented potential for a paradigm shift
- Recommendations for City of Vancouver Budget 2021
- COVID Spending & Social Procurement
- New – Supplier Guide to Social Procurement
- Talking about a Marketplace Revolution: Audiobook available now
- The art of ‘stelling’ in the Social Value Marketplace–Reflections on Workshop 1
- Buy Social Canada Pledge welcomes founding corporate partners SAP and Chandos Construction
- Institutions and Social Procurement – Anchoring Community through Purchasing
- Exploring Community Benefit Agreements (CBA)
- Stronger Together – Solidarity Statement
- Marketplace Revolution Release!
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: SmartICE
- New Tools for Community Employment Benefit and Community Benefit Agreement Implementation
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: Redemptive Developments
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: Mother Earth Reycling
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: The Binners’ Project
- Community Economic Development for COVID-19 Recovery in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
- Social Enterprise Spotlight: Building Up
- Social Procurement creates best value for COVID-19 recovery
- Community Benefit Agreements: the Vancouver Policy
- History of Social Enterprise
