Researchers & Partners Drs. Terry Krupa & Rosemary Lysaght and their colleagues have been advancing a program of research related to social enterprise and disability over the past decade. The primary investigators bring to this initiative experience in a wide range of topics. Projects have included: Evaluating the Effectiveness of WISE in the Mental Health Sector CREATE Kenya Social Enterprise as an Employment Option for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Environmental Scan of Social Businesses Stigma & Social Business International Partnerships to Advance Social Business Research & Policy We have collaborated with a wide variety of organizations and businesses that have influenced and informed our thinking on social enterprise, including: Affirmative Ventures, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia http://affirmativeventures.ca/ Causeway Work Centre, Ottawa http://www.causewayworkcentre.org/ Common Ground Co-operative, Toronto, Ontario http://commongroundco-op.ca/ Fresh Start, Toronto, Ontario http://freshstartclean.com/ Groupe Convex, Prescott-Russell, Ontario http://www.groupeconvexpr.ca/en/ Impact Junk Solutions, CMHA Middlesex, London, Ontario https://cmhamiddlesex.ca/about-cmha/impact/ Landscaping with Heart, Vancouver, British Columbia Petrolia Enterprises, Petrolia, Ontario http://petroliaenterprises.ca/ Rainbow's End Community Development Centre, Hamilton, Ontariohttp://rainbowsend.ca/ Team Werks Co-operative, Thunder Bay, Ontario http://teamwerks.ca/directory/about/index.html Vecova, Calgary, Alberta www.vecova.ca VocEc, Kingston, Ontario Working for Change, Toronto, Ontario http://workingforchange.ca/ Drs. Krupa and Lysaght encourage and support scholarship in this area, and welcome involvement of graduate students, post doctoral fellows, and other partners. Please contact us to discuss your interests and initiatives in this area. Terry Krupa Rosemary Lysaght Queen's University Initiative for Social Enterprise & Disability