Resources
While there are some good articles and resources listed here, it is by no means a complete list. If you have a suggestion for additional articles that are relevant, please contact us with your suggestions.
Although there are some good articles and resources listed here, it is by no means a complete list. If you have a suggestion for additional articles that are relevant, please contact us with your suggestions.
Community Benefits News:
City of Toronto adopts and implements Community Benefits Framework (July 2019)
Ministry of Infrastructure: Ontario Using Infrastructure to Boost Social and Economic Benefits to Communities (May 2018)
Community Benefits Resources:
Anastasia Abrazhevich: Community Benefit Agreements: A Framework for Participatory Planning for Toronto’s Future Development. York University (July 2020)
Community Benefits Ontario: Boldly Progressive, Fiscally Balanced: A Community Benefits Policy Framework for Ontario (March 2017)
Atkinson Foundation: Making Community Benefits a Reality in Ontario (September 2016)
Ontario Construction Secretariat: Community Benefits: Growing Trend in Public Sector Projects in Ontario (November 2019)
Mowat Centre and Atkinson Foundation: The Prosperous Province: Strategies for Building Community Wealth (August 2015)
Dina Graser & Richard Macfarlane: Community Benefits In York Region Research Report (May 2018)
Mowat Centre and Atkinson Foundation: “Community Benefits and Social Procurement Policies– A Jurisdictional Review.” The Prosperous Province series. (April 2016)
United Way of Toronto and York Region/Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities: On Track to Opportunities: Linking Transit Development to Community Employment and Training Project. (October 2015)
Dina Graser: Community Benefits and Tower Renewal. Evergreen. (May 2016)
Social Procurement Resources:
David LePage: Exploring Social Procurement. Accelerating Social Impact CCC, Ltd. (March 2014)
David LePage: How the social procurement movement enhances nonprofit sector revenue and impact. Imagine Canada. (September 2017)
Maria Mapanemunda: The Promise of Social Procurement: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Create Inclusive Employment Opportunities. Parliamentary Library of Victoria (November 2020)
Government of Canada Office of the Procurement Ombudsman: Social Procurement: A Study on Supplier Diversity and Workforce Development Benefits (September 2020)
Canadian CED Network and Accelerating Social Impact CCC: Primer on Trade Agreements for Social Purchasing. (March 2015)
Sandra Hamilton: Social Procurement The Olympic, Commonwealth & Pan Am Games, and the growing case for Social Procurement Policy in Canada. University of Fredericton (July 2014)