Acknowledgements

Our work emerges from seven years of research as part of the British Columbia–Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance, or BALTA (socialeconomy-bcalberta.ca). The editors would like to thank all our friends associated with BALTA and with its Scaling Innovation for Sustainability project (balta-sis.ca).

We gratefully acknowledge research funding support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from our home universities: Athabasca University, the University of Alberta, the University of Otago/Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo, and Simon Fraser University.

Thanks also to each of our co-authors and to the many graduate student researchers, social economy practitioners, and community friends who helped compile research notes and case study information, many of whom are named alongside the case studies in the text.

Cheers to Don McNair for his careful reading and suggestions. And a special thanks to Mike Lewis and Stuart Wulff, BALTA’s heart and soul, for their leadership, inspiration, and steady hands.