by Emmett | Apr 9, 2014 |
Prior to becoming the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and the Ministry of Rural Affairs, Eko Nomos worked with OMAFRA in the Business Retention and Expansion Program that supported rural community efforts to promote economic development and growth. Eko Nomos developed a series of workshops to assist community groups in developing planning and evaluation strategies for business retention and expansion programs. The manual written for these workshops introduces and explains the project planning cycle and outcome-based evaluation... 
by Emmett | Apr 9, 2014 |
Eko Nomos designed an Internet-based toolkit for evaluating local economic development projects in rural Ontario. It provides step-by-step guidance on: building action research and evaluation into project management; collecting and analyzing evaluation information; and, communicating evaluation results. We also provided training to Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing staff in using the... 
by Emmett | Apr 9, 2014 |
This long-term initiative brings together seven foundations and corporations to support women’s social purpose enterprise development across Canada. The Collaborative Fund includes the CIBC, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, George Cedric Metcalf Foundation, and the Bank of Montreal. During the Fund’s first five years, Eko Nomos facilitated a collaborative process with grantees to capture effective practices in the implementation of social purpose enterprises with women. Link to paper 1 ; Link to paper 2 Eko Nomos also completed a five-year action research and learning process with the Fund’s 10 social enterprise development grantees during which we identified effective practice and outcomes. This project produced an evaluation guide providing tools, methods and systems that are used to support organizations in documenting and analyzing the outcomes of their... 
by Emmett | Apr 9, 2014 |
Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI) is a leader in self-employment training development. Eko Nomos has worked on the following components of SEDI’s mandate: Ontario Self-Employment Developers Association (OSEDA): Co-facilitated a capacity- building program for social service agencies interested in delivering self-employment training. Rural Enterprise Development Initiative (REDI) in cooperation with Women and Rural Economic Development (WRED): Designed, implemented and managed a four-site self-employment training program for rural women. Social Purpose Enterprise Monitoring, JobsOntario Training and SEDI: Over 30 self-employment programs and community businesses across Ontario were monitored and provided with technical assistance on a quarterly basis. Women’s Self-Employment Training Program: Provided train-the-trainer services in program facilitation and evaluation techniques. Individual Development Accounts (IDA) Programs, Toronto: IDA’s are used to assist low income citizens to save for education, training or housing. Canada sponsored the world’s largest national demonstration project of IDAs for training and education. Eko Nomos worked on three projects focussing on the research, design and implementation of that demonstration... 
by Emmett | Apr 9, 2014 |
The Toronto Enterprise Fund (TEF) is a collaborative funding initiative designed to support homeless and at-risk populations in engaging in society and the economy through the development of Social Purpose Enterprises. Eko Nomos worked with TEF to design and implement a comprehensive learning and evaluation strategy using action research approaches and techniques. Eko Nomos delivered an annual business planning workshop series with follow-up consultations for organizations developing social purpose enterprises, as well as researched the interest in early stage social purpose enterprise services in Toronto. Eko Nomos wrote The Business of Inclusion – a series of papers highlighting the first three years of learning from this six-year funding stream, see Business of Inclusion Part 3; Business of Inclusion...