Human Resources committee  I completely agree with what was just mentioned. From our perspective—obviously we work with youth, so I'm going to talk to that—we see the ability for the government to build the capacity of the organizations that are out there. To give you the example of our organization, we'

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think it's definitely progressing, and it is progressing more quickly now. I'll give you an example. My alma mater, Memorial University in Newfoundland, is actually introducing an MBA program in social entrepreneurship. I talked to the dean, Wilfred Zerbe, and he told me

Human Resources committee  With some of the projects in social enterprises that our students have done, I think the number one challenge, just because of the audience we work with, is the inexperience. The vast majority of business start-ups fail. The same can be said when you're working with youth. The so

Human Resources committee  From our perspective the vast majority of the work we do is definitely working with the target audiences. In fact when we do our training with our students and teach them how to start social enterprises or award the programming, it's part of the requirements in the needs assessme

Human Resources committee  Thank you for having me here today. My name is Preston Aitken and I'm the national program director for Enactus Canada. Today, I'd like to provide a brief overview of Enactus and how we're involved in social finance and social entrepreneurship. From there I'd like to offer a fe