. . "Manpower policy." . . "Economic development." . . "Community development." . . "Social responsibility of business." . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Winnipeg's Social Purchasing Portal from the past to the future"@en . . . . "The Winnipeg Social Purchasing Portal (SPP) was started by SEED Winnipeg in 2004 based on a Vancouver portal that commenced a year earlier. The SPP is designed to strengthen CED initiatives by bringing together social enterprises and purchasers to raise sales and put both suppliers and purchasers in touch with a pool of employment-ready workers from disadvantaged groups. This report is based on a review of existing literature on SPPs, their origin and track record; semi-structured interviews have been conducted with SEED, LITE, current purchasers and suppliers to assess how the SPP operates and how it might be strengthened in the future; data has also been collected from LITE on the extent to which SPP suppliers purchased from each other and on the extent to which purchasers used suppliers."@en . . "Manitoba" . .