Articles Tagged With: Inner-City-Renovation
- Inner City Renovation featured on CBC ‘Making Canada Proud’
- CBC The National - Making Canada Proud on July 22nd, 2009
Inner City Renovation, an SCP social enterprise investment, was recently featured on a special edition of CBC's The National titled "Making Canada Proud". The clip aired on June 30, 2009, and runs for about 4 minutes.
At the CBC website where the clip was originally posted, Marty Donkervoort from ICR left the following message:
After nearly ten years of planning, start-up and managing Inner City Renovation, I have decided to take some time to write a book..so I will be hanging up my tool belt around May 2010.
The Board has identified finding a successor as a critical issue to maintaining a sustainable future as well as maintaining ICR's social mission. The new general manager, my replacement, has to possess a passion for maintaining the social mandate as well as business, construction and human resource management skills.
- Do-Gooders Can Earn A Good Living: Profiling SCP’s Social Enterprise Portfolio
- Financial Post on July 7th, 2009
SCP's social enterprise investments - TurnAround Couriers, Atira Women's Resource Society, and Inner City Development - were all prominent in an article titled "Do-gooders can earn a good living". The article references the leaders at each of these investments as examples of Canadian social entrepreneurs who are carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns.
Drawing on the experiences of building these three businesses, the entrepreneurs describe how the "road to success is full of speed bumps". Yet, as Richard Derham of TurnAround Couriers notes, "You can actually run a successful for-profit with a very strong social agenda and not compromise on either."
- Building Inner-City Hope One Vital Job at a Time
- Winnipeg Free Press on May 2nd, 2009
Newspaper article that profiles Inner City Renovation, one of SCP's social enterprise investments. The article describes the employment opportunities that have been created by ICR, and how these have had a positive impact on the local community.
- Go-Slow Approach Pays Off for Inner City Renovations
- Winnipeg Free Press on February 5th, 2004
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