Low-income entrepreneur needs assessment

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Low-income entrepreneur needs assessment Local Economic Development Lab (Vancouver, B.C.); Community Economic Development Strategy Action Committee (Vancouver, B.C.)

Abstract

The low-income entrepreneur needs assessment is a listening project that was initiated in January 2017 as priority of the City of Vancouver’s Community Economic Development (CED) Strategy. The listening project was overseen by the Local Economic Development Lab (LEDlab) and an Advisory Committee of low-income entrepreneurs and nonprofits that support entrepreneurship. Two staff with lived experience with self-employment in the DTES were hired for the engagement process. Several Advisory Committee members also participated in an earlier working group of Urban Core, which was focused on supporting self-employment in the DTES. This report presents the findings of the needs assessments and offers several recommendations for strengthening the self-employment system in the DTES and meeting the diverse needs of the community.

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Title	Low-income entrepreneur needs assessment
Creator	Local Economic Development Lab (Vancouver, B.C.); Community Economic Development Strategy Action Committee (Vancouver, B.C.)
Date Issued	2017
Description	The low-income entrepreneur needs assessment is a listening project that was initiated in January 2017 as priority of the City of Vancouver’s Community Economic Development (CED) Strategy. The listening project was overseen by the Local Economic Development Lab (LEDlab) and an Advisory Committee of low-income entrepreneurs and nonprofits that support entrepreneurship. Two staff with lived experience with self-employment in the DTES were hired for the engagement process. Several Advisory Committee members also participated in an earlier working group of Urban Core, which was focused on supporting self-employment in the DTES. This report presents the findings of the needs assessments and offers several recommendations for strengthening the self-employment system in the DTES and meeting the diverse needs of the community.
Subject	self-employment; entrepreneurship; community economic development; community engagement
Geographic Location	Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre	Report
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2022-05-17
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0413639
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81590
Affiliation	Non UBC
Citation	Local Economic Development Lab. (2017). Low-income entrepreneur needs assessment. LEDlab & Community Economic Development Strategic Action Committee.
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Other
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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