Feb 4, 2020 | Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development, Uncategorized
As a CCC, Urban Matters is required to re-invest a percentage of our profit back into community innovation ventures. That means we don’t only work on solutions, we live and reinvest in the communities where we work. In 2019, we had $40,000 available for a community...
Jul 9, 2019 | Civic Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
The inaugural P.E.O.P.L.E. graduation ceremony will celebrate the first cohort of graduates from its program this evening.
Jun 21, 2019 | Areas of Impact, Civic Social Innovation, Indigenous Communities, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
Indigenous social innovation has been making headlines and we wanted to learn more. Here’s the start of a growing list.
May 30, 2019 | Accessibility, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development, Universal Access Design
As the team at Universal Access Design Inc. (UAD) has expanded, so has their breadth of work. UAD has been bringing wheelchairs into the wilderness! We’re featuring UAD’s important work for National AccessAbility Week 2019.
Apr 18, 2019 | Civic Social Innovation, Community, Homelessness, Inclusion, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
We are placing people people with lived experience into roles where they can make a difference in the lives of their peers.
Apr 17, 2019 | Civic Social Innovation, Community, Social Enterprise, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW) is the kind of celebration we embrace at Urban Matters CCC.
Mar 25, 2019 | Affordable Housing, Reframe, Social Enterprise, Social Venture Development
In part two of a spotlight series on the 2018 Reframe Housing Competition winners, we’re featuring Expandwell Home Inc.
Mar 15, 2019 | Affordable Housing, Reframe, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
Recently, Urban Matters’ Social Venture Developer Jerome Lengkeek visited the Reframe winners in person. His first stop was Kamloops, BC.
Nov 30, 2018 | BC’s Affordable Housing Conference, Housing, Housing Central, Social Enterprise, Social Venture Development
What does it take to bring innovative housing ideas together to imagine the future of community housing in Canada?
Nov 14, 2018 | Accessibility, Community, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development, Universal Access Design
City of Lethbridge Creating New Masterplan for Inclusive Design It was an unusual sight: Lethbridge city officials and consultants wandering around outside city hall, some blindfolded and holding canes, some in wheelchairs, all struggling. A local reporter who just...
May 2, 2018 | case study, case study: social enterprise development, Social Innovation, Social Venture Development
Most people would likely guess that universal accessibility is not today’s reality – but most people wouldn’t have a grasp on the magnitude of the issue. Things are set up for the able-bodied majority (or TABs in Stan’s parlance, the Temporarily Able Bodied), its...
May 2, 2018 | case study, case study: social enterprise development, Social Venture Development
When we launched Urban Matters CCC in 2014 we knew we were going to be active in something we often described as an incubation/acceleration function. Why? In conceiving of our business model we recognized one of the greatest values that we can bring to the ecosystem...
