Buy Social!

Buy Social!

While in many ways the Raw Carrot looks like a business, our model is geared entirely to creating paid employment and opportunities for social inclusion for people in need. Yes we sell soup…and the soup brings in income. But we are still a charity that is just...
Leveraging Resources

Leveraging Resources

A little while ago, I went for a walk with Jim Estill – a Canadian entrepreneur, executive and Philanthropist, who is currently the President and CEO of Danby Appliances. I wanted to pick his brain on social enterprise growth for The Raw Carrot. Jim’s...
“I felt like a real person…”

“I felt like a real person…”

Nick came into work recently moaning and groaning. So much so that Kitchen Manger Jenn Klassen thought that he might have fallen on the way to work. Nope! She was dead wrong. Nick relayed that he had spent the previous evening at a family wedding and was painfully...