Parkdale Green Thumb Enterprises

A Social Purpose Enterprise is a type of community economic development initiative-specifically, it is a business established to respond to the employment or economic needs of a particular community, usually a community that is disadvantaged in some way. For example, in Toronto, a group of Somali women operate a sewing enterprise, a youth group runs a restaurant, and consumer/survivors in Parkdale manage Green Thumb Enterprises. In Newfoundland, small communities have come together to create businesses to respond to the need for employment after the demise of the fishing industry. All of these examples are different forms of social purpose enterprises.