Community Ownership Solutions is a unique and proactive not-for-profit development corporation whose mandate is to raise the bar in commercial excellence and workplace culture through:

• creation of quality jobs
• employee empowerment
• participative management
• worker involvement and development
• community responsibility
• healthy businesses and healthy employment opportunities

Vision

• The alleviation of poverty and structured underemployment in Winnipeg through the creation and transformation of market driven enterprises.

Mission

COS is a proactive economic development corporation committed to a model of sectoral employment development that will create systemic change within targeted occupational labour markets.

Objectives

• Create and support market-driven enterprises that will employ low income Manitobans
• Work with established businesses to enhance and transform their operations in order to create new, empowerment-based and participatory business cultures in which low income Manitobans will have the prospect of quality employment
• Create, support and facilitate business support systems and professional networks for community-based "social entrepreneur" organizations

Web site: www.communityownershipsolutions.com

Awarded $7,500 - 2005