Publications

Prosper Canada collaborates with policy makers, academics and frontline workers to build a base of evidence concerning strategies for action that empower low-income and vulnerable families.

The majority of our publications are provided in accessible formats. For publications that do not meet this requirement, an accessible format is available on request at info@prospercanada.org.

2005

Design and Implementation of a Program to Help the Poor Save - The learn$ave Project

This report describes the implementation of learn$ave , a demonstration project designed to test whether financial incentives can help low-income people improve their long-term economic prospects.

2004

A Self-Employment Policy Discussion Paper - Trends, Challenges, Barriers, Conclusions

This paper is the result of an increasing concern that the growth in self-employment warrants the review of federal government policies and the development of a comprehensive national policy to address the needs of the growing number of self-employed Canadians

2004

Ontario Self-Employment Delivery Alliance (OSEDA) Final Report

OSEDA was a consortium of nonprofits led by SEDI. With the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, OSEDA launched the Self-Sufficiency Through Self-Employment project in 1999. The consortium's mission was to provide self-employment services over a five-year period (1999-2004) to low-income people across Ontario. This is a report on the five-year project.

2004

Helping People Help Themselves: An Early Look at learn$ave

This report presents preliminary observations from the learn$ave pilot program. It is the first published report about the pilot, which had 4,827 people enrolled at 10 sites across Canada.

2003

Asset Building and Fairer Tax Treatment of Savings

SEDI prepared this submission to the Department of Finance Canada in response to the Department's invitation to take part in informal consultations on the tax treatment of savings.

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