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 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.
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?
Feb 15, 2018 | Social Finance, Social Innovation
This is the second post in our series about social finance tools and our view on how they can be applied in various contexts. In the first post of our series on Social Finance, Jerome Lengkeek, Urban Matters’ Social Finance Lead, gave us a comprehensive look at...
Jul 28, 2017 | Indigenous Communities, Social Enterprise, Social Finance
First Nations Social Enterprise Creates Sustainable Food Access When Shaun Loney visited Garden Hill First Nations for the first time in 2014, he showed up with an empty stomach. Despite having the ability to pay, there was nowhere to buy a meal. A modern grocery...
