Abstract
Last December, 2007, I meet up with Martin Garber-Conrad in the McCauley – Boyle neighborhood where he lives, and we spent a few hours chatting over coffees at the La Dolce Vita Café, an institution in Edmonton’s Little Italy.
Martin Garber-Conrad is the Director of the Edmonton Community Foundation. He and I are working together on a large SSHRC research project examining the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta (BALTA). I thought I might take the opportunity to learn more from a long-time practitioner in the field. I asked Martin about his work with the Edmonton Community Foundation, and the brand new Edmonton Social Enterprise Fund .
Martin set out the evolution of these projects by telling me about one of his first ‘social enterprises’ and along the way we explored some other significant collaborations he led to save Heritage Buildings in Edmonton and repurpose them to shelter social economy organizations