The Okanagan food system is fragile, and is weakening with economic pressures. The OCS Community Enterprise, in combination with inclusive design approaches, unlocks scalable pathways to rebuild a resilient food system locally, and beyond.
#Together We Can
Why Now?
Our communities are experiencing rapidly growing pressures such as housing affordability, food insecurity, mental health challenges, and wealth inequities.
We can see how the current trajectory extends if we don’t collectively move from treating socio-economic symptoms, to transforming root causes.
Why OCS?
The OCS Community Enterprise infuses the best of the current “symptom-specific” approaches, within holistic and whole-system approaches to create a scalable self-governing system.
Together, our community can begin solving our toughest challenges.
OCS Value
Lasting Change
Transformative systems integrate not-for-profit with for-profit to create lasting positive change.
Community Wealth Building
Hybrid community ownership restores economic strength to community.
Community Innovation
Community ventures invite broader representation to co-create solutions where it matters most.
Community Driven
Collective community wisdom guides the evolution of the Okanagan Circular Society.
Initiatives
Community Dialogue
The OCS’s Community Conversations utilize circular practices to cultivate diverse perspectives, tap collective wisdom, and begin to mobilize tangible community action. Building on the success of our past Community Conversations, the OCS will be hosting a series on systems change and sustainability in the Winter of 2023. Stay tuned!
Future Ventures
The OCS Community Enterprise creates transformative opportunities across economic sectors, including in housing, transportation, energy, and health-care. Once the food resilience initiative is going, the OCS, in collaboration with community, will focus on developing untapped value and systems approaches to rebuilding economic resilience across sectors.
Community Prosperity
The OCS’s scalable whole systems approach spans the 4 P’s of People, Planet, Purpose, and Profits — creating tangible community prosperity.
Vision of Possibility: To Inspire and Nourish All Life
Events & News
Event
Community Conversations — Stay Tuned!
The OCS’s Community Conversations utilize circular practices to cultivate diverse perspectives, tap collective wisdom, and begin to mobilize tangible community action.
Latest News
OCS Community Enterprise Overview
We are pleased to announce the release of Okanagan Circular Society’s Community Enterprise Overview, a short yet comprehensive tour of the OCS vision, model, approach, and key areas of activity.