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The MATCH International Women’s Fund – Equality Fund

By Ryan Turnbull
June 14, 2019
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Established through funding from Global Affairs Canada which was announced in June 2019, the Equality Fund seeks to combine international feminist grant-making with an innovative investment arm, delivering new momentum for the women’s rights movement and supporting the advancement of gender equality globally.  The Equality Fund is a consortium of partners led by The MATCH International Women’s Fund, African Women’s Development Fund, Calvert Impact Capital, Canadian Women’s Foundation, and Community …Read More

HI Toronto

By Ryan Turnbull
December 20, 2018
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Eco-Ethonomics Inc is working with Hosteling International Toronto to develop a compelling proposal to acquire city support and financing for their expansion and relocation project, which will establish them as Toronto’s most iconic hostel. A hostel that is equal in design, stature and cultural appeal to those that draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to leading cities around the world. With innovation at the forefront, the project will rely on …Read More

MATCH International Women’s Fund (the MATCH Fund)

By Ryan Turnbull
December 20, 2018
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The MATCH Fund is Canada’s only international women’s fund.  They fund grassroots women’s rights organizations around the world as they work to dismantle barriers, challenge perceptions and advance women’s rights.  The MATCH Fund came to Eco-Ethonomics for help in determining what the best strategy was for the future of their social enterprise, Cov(her).  Cov(her) had been providing back-office supports (Human Resources and Bookkeeping and Strategic Financial Management) for a number …Read More

United Way Hamilton Halton

By Ryan Turnbull
December 20, 2018
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Eco-Ethonomics will help to facilitate the implementation of the Urban Roots project. An urban farm born out of the leadership of devoted community leaders with a passion for bio-intensive micro-farming and the United Way Hamilton Halton. The project seeks to place a focus on experiential learning, using the urban farm as a teaching resource as well as function as a self-sustaining social enterprise and resourceful pillar for the community. Eco-Ethonomics …Read More

Durham College Farm and Food System Innovation Hub

By Ryan Turnbull
May 17, 2018
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Durham College is seeking to develop a Farm and Food System Innovation Hub at an underutilized, 26-acre, property in North Oshawa. The hub will potentially provide space for start-ups, events, tool storage, privately funded research, education and public research. Eco-Ethonomics was hired to conduct a feasibility study on the farm and food system innovation hub to ensure it is a project that many stakeholders contribute to envisioning and benefit from. …Read More

All About Kindness

By Ryan Turnbull
May 17, 2018
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All About Kindness is a social enterprise owned and operated by Jessie’s – The June Callwood Center for Young Women. The social enterprise offers youth employment and training in providing Doula Services in Toronto. Eco-Ethonomics is working with All About Kindness to develop a marketing and sales strategy to exceed expected targets for the first year of business. Through interactive and engaging workshops with the Executive Director, coaching and guidance …Read More

Etobicoke Network of Refugee Sponsors

By Ryan Turnbull
January 10, 2018
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The Etobicoke Network of Refugee Sponsors (ENRS) is a committed volunteer organization consisting of both private and community sponsors within Etobicoke and beyond, to address the needs of new sponsors involved in refugee settlement. The ENRS is a collaboration of Islington United Church and ECULINKS Etobicoke. Eco-Ethonomics has been hired to conduct a feasibility study to address growth modelling prior to investing in the formal development of the network.

Feed the Need Durham

By Ryan Turnbull
December 1, 2017
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Feed the Need Durham is a food hub in Oshawa that distributes food to 51 organizations including food banks, shelters and soup kitchens in Durham Region. Eco-Ethonomics has been hired to conduct interactive and engaging workshops on Social Enterprise Capacity Development for the primary board members.

University Health Network

By Ryan Turnbull
September 13, 2017
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In 2015, Eco-Ethonomics was hired to guide a feasibility study on a number of variations of a social enterprise model with an aim to integrate more local food into the meals of UHN’s hospital inpatients, outpatients, staff, and hospital visitors. The consultant team has been rehired in 2017 to assist in business planning for the development of an urban farm at Toronto Rehab Institute’s Lyndhurst campus and estimate its social, health and environmental outcomes.

United Church of Canada – Social Replication Research

By Ryan Turnbull
September 13, 2017
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The United Church of Canada (UCC) is interested in assessing the applicability of social enterprises within the United Church of Canada Network given its potential to create sustainable, replicable, and scalable impact. To this end, Eco-Ethonomics has been hired to assist UCC in conducting research to better understand the different types of social franchises with greatest relevance within the church space context; to identify the necessary conditions for UCC churches …Read More