Common Good Solutions

Corporate/Business:

Our processes help private companies to improve their bottom line by integrating social impact into their business models.

Non-Profit:

We help nonprofit organizations successfully engage in business activity that is aligned with their social mission

Community:

We help communities to use all of their local resources to build “Made at home” solutions to their most pressing social issues.

Educational Institutions/Youth:

Engaged students are provided with enterprise and social impact tools and skills they can immediately implement in their communities.

“We help non-profits start mission-related businesses, and businesses create social value with their work."

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"Within only a few months after working with CGS, we have seen great benefits, where sales are stronger and creative new ways to grow the enterprise have been established."

David Farmer, Director of the Breton Ability Centre, for the Best of Cape Breton Store

- Dr. Norman Greenberg, Community Carrot Co-operative

Blog:

Preliminary Social Enterprise Survey Results

Our 2014 social enterprise survey in Nova Scotia, created and completed in partnership with ENP Canada, Mont Royal and Simon Fraser Universities, identified over 1,170 social enterprises in the province. Valid survey responses were received from 232 social enterprises, and preliminary results are available. Of course, further data collection and cleaning are yet to […]

Scaling Up Doesn’t Always Equal Scaling Impact

Scaling up a social enterprise can be an effective way to increase impact. But in Canada, it’s more the exception than it is the rule, says Andy Horsnell. “When I think of scaling up, I think of the global south,” explains the social enterprise consultant with Common Good Solutions in Nova Scotia. Andy thinks this […]