scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship: an Alternative Means of Funding in the Settlement Sector?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaskiran Sahota
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Funding Cuts

Canada’s settlement sector underwent substantial changes in December 2010. Settlement agencies experienced significant cutbacks from the federal government, which has created a climate of uncertainty as to how these agencies will sustain themselves if cuts continue to occur. This paper aims to analyze a model of funding that has gained popularity in recent years. I analyze the concept of social entrepreneurship, which brings together the private, voluntary, and public spheres and allows agencies to become less reliant on government funding. After a deep investigation I explore whether this concept is a possible solution to deal with the consequences of funding cuts.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship: an Alternative Means of Funding in the Settlement Sector?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaskiran Sahota
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Funding Cuts

Canada’s settlement sector underwent substantial changes in December 2010. Settlement agencies experienced significant cutbacks from the federal government, which has created a climate of uncertainty as to how these agencies will sustain themselves if cuts continue to occur. This paper aims to analyze a model of funding that has gained popularity in recent years. I analyze the concept of social entrepreneurship, which brings together the private, voluntary, and public spheres and allows agencies to become less reliant on government funding. After a deep investigation I explore whether this concept is a possible solution to deal with the consequences of funding cuts.

scholarly journals Adult education and school programs: The two co-funded ABC Educational TV Services

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Educational Broadcasting ◽  
Present Solution ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Future

<span>The traditional role of the ABC in supporting education has become more complicated under new funding arrangements to support programs for schools and to introduce adult education. Various options and directions for childrens' and adult education have been debated for some time in the ABC but the present solution incorporates some fascinating elements that had not been foreseen. It has been clear, since 1990, that there was a funding short-fall that would place the future of ABC school broadcasts at risk but the solution adopted is both novel and effective. This article considers how the two education services have come about in the ABC. It ponders how they have gained support in a period of reduced Federal government funding for the ABC when the future of educational broadcasting looked bleak. It also examines how some of the long debated issues, of the role of the ABC as a provider of national educational resources, have been resolved.</span>

scholarly journals The impact of government funding cuts on ethno-specific settlement services in Ontario: The case of the Afghan Association of Ontario and the Afghan Women’s Organization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Mohsini
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Funding Cuts

This study focuses on the importance of ethno-specific immigrant settlement service agencies (ISSAs) for Afghan newcomers, in particular, refugees, and investigates the impact of Canadian government funding cuts on their services in Ontario. Based on secondary data, organizations’ archival documents and multi-lingual literature, this research presents the impact of funding cuts on services and service users through a case study of the Afghan Women’s Organization (AWO) and the Afghan Association of Ontario (AAO). This research demonstrates that the 2010 sweeping funding cuts terminated AAO’s programs, and consistent funding cuts have limited the AWO’s programs. Service users, too, confirm the lack of linguistic and culturally competent services, impacting their settlement and integration. This research is guided by the politics of recognition theoretical framework and strives to inform governmental policy, leading to access and provision of essential settlement services for newcomers.

Changing Public Attitudes Toward Funding of the Arts

1984 ◽  
Vol 471 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
KITTY CARLISLE HART
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
American System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Arts

Throughout this nation's relatively brief history, a tradition of pluralistic funding of the arts has evolved. The partners in this pluralistic system are individuals, the federal government, state, county and local governments, foundations, businesses, and corporations. With all of these partners participating, the system prevents an unhealthy dependence on any one source and keeps any one source from dominating. An increasing number of Americans view the arts in a positive manner. Nationwide studies and the 1980 census indicate that more Americans are participating, actively and passively, in the arts than ever before in the nation's history. However, the typical American does not seem to understand the pluralistic funding process, especially the role government should play in the funding partnership. The public needs to understand the benefits of government funding of the arts for our society. The funds that taxpayers invest in the arts provide essential tools for economic development and social stability. Public funds spent on the arts multiply in the economy at large, attract tourists, and generate the need for related goods and services. Thus the public needs to be educated to comprehend that government participation is a vital ingredient in our American system of pluralistic support for our cultural endeavors.

Green community entrepreneurship 2.0

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 609-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Gliedt ◽  
Paul Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Collective Innovation ◽  
National Networks ◽  
Funding Cuts

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a second round of intensive green community entrepreneurship, a form of social entrepreneurship, by a set of environmental service organizations (ESOs) facing the loss of their largest revenue source (the ecoENERGY program), to see if it differed from responses to a similar funding cut five years earlier. In particular, the study compared green community entrepreneurship rates and types to those of the previous program (EnerGuide for Houses) cancellation and examined the perceived importance of various factors, including a social entrepreneurship training program offered by the national association. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were held with executive directors who had led their organization through both periods of financial crisis. Information was collected on changes in revenue, staffing, residential energy evaluations conducted, service creation, and the perceived importance of organizational factors. The adaptation strategy undertaken by each ESO was classified as resilience, transition, or transformation focussed. Findings – First, green community entrepreneurship is accelerated when needs are heightened, such as when ESOs face funding cuts. Second, only some of the new services or activities launched were financially successful and remained viable over a five-year period. Third, green community entrepreneurship is an important initiative for ESOs to implement their adaptation strategy (resilient, transition, or transformation strategy). Fourth, a higher perceived difficulty of adaptation to funding cuts is associated with the launch of more new services by the ESO. Originality/value – The original contributions of the paper include the verification of repeated increases to the rate of entrepreneurship undertaken in response to sudden funding cuts, as compared to the rate of entrepreneurship during a stable funding period. This accelerated creation of new services can be directed to achieve various adaptation strategies from creating new services in the established area of energy expertise, to initiatives in new areas of sustainability services, such as water, food, or finance. The importance of collective innovation is highlighted with the use of both local and national networks.

Perpetual Crisis: The Politics of Saving the ABC

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Craig
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
A Site ◽  
Funding Cuts

In recent years there has been a rally to ‘save’ the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). This paper explores the assumptions about the national broadcaster which often inform such rescue attempts. The ABC seems to have entered a state of ‘perpetual crisis ‘following government funding cuts, political accusations of bias, issues of structural change and the Mansfield inquiry. Even more than usual, the identity, functions and future of the national broadcaster have become a public issue. While fully supporting a strong national public broadcaster as a space for public contestation, I argue that saving the ABC should not render it ‘safe’, returning it to some prior privileged state and established identity. Rather, drawing on an ‘agonistic model of democratic politics’. I argue that the ABC needs to be conceptualised as a site which produces ‘dilemmatic space’ and that the crises of the ABC are those which necessarily constitute the institution as a public broadcaster.

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