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Social Economy Centre

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The Social Economy Centre (SEC) of the University of Toronto promotes and disseminates multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on issues affecting the social economy. The Centre was established in 2005 as a unit of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. A central feature of the Social Economy Centre is to create a bridge between the university and other community organizations, particularly nonprofits and co-operatives. To this end, the SEC has a monthly workshop series through which leaders in social economy organizations can upgrade their skills and acquire a certificate, and it also has a monthly speaker series that is webcast and archived on its website.Currently, the Centre administers a number of research projects including a $1.75-million grant that funds over 35 projects examining the social economy in Southern Ontario and a $1 million grant to explore the impact of social businesses for marginalized groups in metro Toronto. Both of these research projects were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. The Social Economy Centre has played an important role in the creation of the Association of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER), an academic network and has also played a central role in organizing the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, to begin publication in 2010.