A List of Social Enterprise Databases

Explore the Buy Social Canada Certified Social Enterprise Directory to find valuable connections in your community and make an impact with your spending. Social enterprises are businesses that sell goods or services, embed a social, cultural or environmental purpose into the business, and reinvest the majority of profits into their social mission. The Certified Social Enterprise Directory can be filtered by location, social value, and type of goods and services offered.

Business Link’s Support Local AB directory helps small businesses and social enterprises in Alberta reach new customers and get free business exposure. The directory celebrates the diversity in entrepreneurship across Alberta and allows businesses to easily keep important business information up to date. Listings are often featured by Business Link and shared with their extensive network partners across the province!

Be Local is Calgary’s only network of community-focused businesses. Be Local businesses are locally-owned, operational, and maybe most importantly, community-focused. Community-focused means the business has integrated social and environmental impacts and prioritizes relationships with other local businesses and community. Be Local strives towards a local economy that is sustainable, resilient and works for everyone.

The list indicates the type of organization, the name of the non-profit organization, its current status, its registration date, city, and postal code. Alberta laws authorize the creation or incorporation of certain non-profit organizations and extra-provincial registration of organizations from other provinces and countries. In Alberta, incorporation can take place under the Agricultural Societies Act, Companies Act, Religious Societies Lands Act, Societies Act, and a small number of private acts. Extra-provincial registration of non-profit organizations from outside Alberta takes place under the Business Corporations Act.

The Indigenous Business Directory is designed to assist and support Indigenous businesses in the pursuit of business opportunities, including federal procurement. This directory is a resource available to all levels of government, as well as the private sector to identify Indigenous businesses.

Beaumont is home to over 170 storefront businesses and over 320 home based businesses. We encourage you to consult our Business Directory that is updated monthly and lists all licensed local businesses. The directory indicates if the business is run by female entrepreneur(s).

The Canadian Social Enterprise Directory is a project of the BC Centre for Social Enterprise, this Canadian directory is free to use, and is searchable by location, good or service offering , and social impact categories. 

EndPoverty Edmonton's resource directory features Edmonton based social enterprises operating in the following categories:

• art & gifts

• catering & food

• construction, manufacturing, maintenance & cleaning

• Other social enterprises