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David Thuss is the current Director at the London Brewing Cooperative, and one of the founding worker owners of the Co-op. He has experience in many of the areas of the brewing business, but now works in a supporting role for the other workers in the Co-op.

London Brewing follows a triple bottom line approach to running a social enterprise, and also emphasises partnerships with other values aligned organizations including an organic food delivery company, and a Café. Through these partnerships, each organization is able to lean on their strengths and rely on their partners for everything else.

For more information, visit https://www.londonbrewing.ca/

More info on the worker Co-op principles: https://canadianworker.coop/about/statement-of-co-operative-identity/

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Resources:

• https://www.londonbrewing.ca/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LondonBrewing
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/londonbrewingca/

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Joey Pittoello is the General Manager at Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, and has worked in many different roles within the company. Just Us! is a worker Co-op, where each worker has the option to join as a member with a stake in the organization, and the opportunity to influence it's overall direction.

One of the significant challenges that has been present throughout the history of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op is ensuring that every worker member understands the added responsibilities that come with ownership in a Co-op. Towards solving that challenge, Just Us! has been intentional about creating member onboarding and training to improve the health of the Co-op overall.

For more information, visit justuscoffee.com/

Link to Strategy Made Simple podcast on Social Acquisitions with Meg Ronson: https://strategymadesimple.ca/blog/57-meg-ronson-on-l3-and-social-acquisitions

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Resources:

• https://justuscoffee.com/pages/our-values
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justuscoffee/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justuscoffee/?hl=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3s-eH6ylPaayAoUs7MvaRw/featured

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Susan Holt is the Chief Growth Officer for Plato Testing, a software testing service that hires and trains people with indigenous backgrounds. She also acts in the same role for their sister company PQA. She has been part of Plato Testing's growth from a single office to five offices across Canada over the past five years.

Throughout the growth of the company, there have been decisions that have contributed to Plato's ability to provide quality software testing, and build up the skills of their employees. In addition, they have provided opportunities for employees to become limited partners in the company and receive some of the benefits that ownership provides.

For more information on Plato Testing, visit platotesting.com

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Resources:

• http://www.platotesting.com/about
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PLATOtesting/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/platotesting
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plato-testing/

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Olowo-n'djo Tchala is the founder and CEO of Alaffia, an international fair trade hair and body product company based in the USA. He was able to take this company from the garage, to supplying large national grocery store chains with their products.

Throughout the growth of the company, he has put the mission first, and ensured that the workers in West Africa continue to get fair wages for their work, and that the products that Alaffia produces have natural ingredients made with traditional methods.

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Resources:

• https://www.alaffia.com/
• https://www.alaffia.com/pages/social-enterprise-model
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alaffia/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlaffiaSkinCare
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alaffia/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/alaffia

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The purpose of B Corp is to certify and demonstrate businesses that are doing social good through their operations. Built into the system is an incentive to improve the impact that is being done by the business. ACU received their B Corp certification in February of 2020, and received the highest score in Canada and the 6th highest score in the world. I had the opportunity to sit down with Brendan Reimer to discuss what being a B Corp means for ACU, why it joined the movement, and why it's a focus for the organization.

Note: ACU does not have investors, but is owned by its members.

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Resources:

• https://www.acu.ca/en/personal
• https://bcorporation.net/
• https://bcorporation.net/directory/assiniboine-credit-union
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyAssiniboine/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyAssiniboine
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocalmb
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/assiniboine-credit-union/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTGbKIsFZlzXfNvuuZmjdPw
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MyAssiniboine/

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Meg Ronson is the Project Manager for Legacy Leadership Lab, a team based out of the University of Waterloo. They are working on using social innovation labs to build up a network and tools to facilitate social acquisitions. Social acquisitions are a form of succession planning so that business owners can exit, and the businesses can be converted to co-ops or community owned businesses with social goals.

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Resources:

• https://uwaterloo.ca/legacy-leadership-lab/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wisirL3
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lab_legacy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13767534/
• Introduction to L3: https://uwaterloo.ca/legacy-leadership-lab/sites/ca.legacy-leadership-lab/files/uploads/files/introduction_package_v7.pdf
• Primer on social acquisitions: https://uwaterloo.ca/legacy-leadership-lab/sites/ca.legacy-leadership-lab/files/uploads/files/socialacquisitionprimer.pdf
• Stakeholder Briefs: https://uwaterloo.ca/legacy-leadership-lab/sites/ca.legacy-leadership-lab/files/uploads/files/stakeholder_briefs_v1.pdf
• Crowdsourced resource library: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-tTAXQahZzlEVHJa-1yhAjA7vKYnlcK4oQdpj1CCp2o/edit?pli=1

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Erinch Sahan is the Chief Executive of the World Fair Trade Organization. The WFTO is a combination social enterprise and fair trade certifier, with offices around the world. The WFTO is a member led organization working towards improving the situation for workers around the world using the 10 Principles of Fair Trade.

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Resources:

• https://wfto.com/
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/wfto_fairtrade
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WFTOFairTrade
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/WFTO_FairTrade
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-fair-trade-organization?trk=biz-companies-cym
• Join the Business Revolution: (https://wfto.com/jointhebusinessrevolution/)
• 10 principles of Fair Trade: (https://wfto.com/who-we-are)
• Mahaguthi – case study in Join the business revolution (https://wfto.com/jointhebusinessrevolution/mahaguthi.html)
• Creative Handicrafts – (https://fairworldproject.org/the-economy-has-been-rigged-we-can-change-that/) (https://creativehandicrafts.org/)
• SE design ideas – Well being economy alliance (https://wellbeingeconomy.org/people-and-planet-before-profit-a-framework-to-compare-the-big-ideas)

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The business model canvas is a powerful tool to get a quick sense of how a business works. It can also be used to show how businesses can create social good. In this episode, we will be examining what kind of relationships you social enterprises can have with their customers and stakeholders, what qualities go into defining those relationships, and looking at a case study of how Fairphone's business model is affected by their relationships.

00:00 - Intro 00:58 – 6 Types of Relationships 05:06 – 3 Qualities of Relationships 06:59 - Case Study: Fairphone 12:09 – Outro

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You can continue the conversation by joining SocialEconomyConnect.com. Social Economy Connect is a free mutual support platform for practitioners, social entrepreneurs, co-op members and developers and third sector supporters to discuss issues and solutions with a focus on social outcomes in the economy.

Resources: Business Model Generation: https://www.strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation

Fairphone: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/

Fairphone 2017 impact report: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fairphone_Report_DEF_WEB.pdf

Photos provided by Fairphone: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairphone/albums

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Social enterprise describes many different kinds of businesses, and it needs to have a clear definition. In this episode of Strategy Made Simple, we go through several key elements to define social enterprise.

Featuring content based on interviews with: Sophie Short: https://www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk/ Elizabeth Chick: https://www.buysocialcanada.com/ Rebecca Dray: https://www.buysocialusa.org/ Amanda Kiessel: https://www.goodmarket.global/

Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) characteristics of a social enterprise: 1. Mission focused 2. Surplus/profits invested into the mission 3. Ownership tied to the mission 4. Transparency in business practices 5. Primary income is through trading goods/services 6. Asset locks

Marketplace Revolution by David LaPage: https://www.buysocialcanada.com/marketplace-revolution

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The business model canvas is a powerful tool to get a quick sense of how a business works. It can also be used to show how businesses can create social good. In this episode, we will be examining how different forms of resources can be used by businesses to create interesting models. Specifically, we will be looking at Toast Ale, and how they have been able to take a waste product from another industry and turn it into one of their key resources.

00:00 - Intro

00:15 – 4 Categories of Resources

03:53 – Case Study: Toast Ale

09:06 - Corrections

10:14 – Outro

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You can continue the conversation by joining SocialEconomyConnect.com. Social Economy Connect is a free mutual support platform for practitioners, social entrepreneurs, co-op members and developers and third sector supporters to discuss issues and solutions with a focus on social outcomes in the economy.

Resources:

Business Model Generation: https://www.strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation

Toast Ale: https://www.toastale.com/

Toast Ale 2019 impact report: https://www.toastale.com/uploads/files/1585947098ToastAle2019ImpactReport.pdf

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Email: [email protected]

Scripted, recorded and edited by: Matthew Rempel

Music provided by: epidemicsound.com