Today over the lunchtime session we watched a 20 min. video on a short history of research partnerships on the social economy in Montreal: 10 ans de recherche partenariale en économie sociale by l’Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale (ARUC-ÉS) and le Réseau québécois de recherche partenariale en économie sociale (RQRP-ÉS)
Apparently Montreal is the only city in North America that has a social economy plan. I’ve found out the answer to my question yesterday – it seems that Québec is definitely in advance of the other provinces in the social economy movement. I do need to double-check that, though.
I find these examinations and discussions of the social economy fascinating because of all of the different types of experiences I’m having with the social economy network in Québec. Through my participation as a board member at ISF I’m encountering and working with different actors in the social economy milieu in Montreal to find funding for ISF to expand our activities. For Ajah, we’ve applied and received funding for community economic development funds. In developing the Ajah service we’re learning more about the macro aspects of the social economy across Canada.
The session I’m attending now is another one on Governance & Management:
How accountability in the social services will lead to increasingly dysfunctional organizations
Lothar Liehmann - Craigwood Youth ServicesValue Frame Fusion in Cross Sector Partnerships
Marlene J. Le Ber – The University of Western OntarioPower and Resistance in Community-based organisations: Neoliberalism, funding and discourse
Sarah Amyot – University of VictoriaChaired by Ram Cnaan
It was an interesting session. Sarah Amyot’s (Master’s thesis) talk reminded me of the book The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. Her talk and Lothar Liehmann’s overlapped well. Lothar Liehmann’s talk was different than other presentation’s that I have heard so far which I imagine is because he is a director of a social services organization (Craigwood Youth Services).
