Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank you again for inviting us here today. I would very much like to maintain the dialogue we're having, because the kinds of questions that have been posed today are the kinds of questions we will get better and better at answering as we exper

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. ABC Life Literacy Canada is really quite new to this adventure of social enterprise. We launched the social enterprise only six weeks after we got the news that we wouldn't continue to receive federal government funding. It's really quite

Human Resources committee  We anticipated, because of the signals we had been getting and the whole sector had been getting for several years, that the model for financing of literacy and essential skills training might move to employers, to the demand side and away from the supply side, so about three mon

Human Resources committee  It was about $500,000 a year in revenue that ABC was receiving in terms of core funding to its operations.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for inviting me to speak today. This afternoon I'd like to provide a brief introduction to ABC Life Literacy and the journey that we're on in exploring a social enterprise model for a