Under each social objective are three sections.
\n– “Findings” includes the relevant information: and data, as well as the questionnaire results.
\n– “lmplications” covers the Social Audit Committee’s interpretation of the findings.
\n– “Recommended Actions” are specific steps strongly\u00a0 recommended\u00a0 by the\u00a0 Social\u00a0 Audit Committee to\u00a0 improve our performance on the particular social objective.<\/p>\n
2024 note: \u00a0The social audit documents were retrieved from very old files on a computer. There are a couple of glitches.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A NOTE ABOUT METHODOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n When studying the results or the Social Audit, please keep the following points in mind:<\/p>\n The questionnaire was designed, administered and compiled by a committee of co-op volunteers and not trained social scientists.\u00a0 The figures reported are subject to an unknown margin of error (due to people misinterpreting questions, mistakes in entering data into the computer, etc.).\u00a0 Please use the data as rough indicators only.<\/p>\n The return rate on the questionnaire was 92% (or 248 of our 271 members).\u00a0 In this report, references to the percentage of what “all members” stated actually refers only to those that returned the questionnaire.<\/p>\n The questionnaire answers were entered into a computer program developed by Rebecca Moershel to allow data to be sorted according to 16 groups of members (by age,\u00a0 income,\u00a0 length of tenure,\u00a0 etc.). Only the data that was considered relevant and most important is included in this report. \u00a0 Anyone wishing to review all questionnaire findings may do so by contacting a\u00a0 member of the\u00a0 Social\u00a0 Audit Committee.<\/p>\n In\u00a0 references\u00a0 to\u00a0 income\u00a0 levels,\u00a0 we\u00a0 use the symbol “M”\u00a0 to\u00a0 refer to thousands of dollars. For example, $30M refers to $30,000.<\/p>\n References to “seniors” mean members 60 years of age and over.\u00a0 References to “lower-income members” mean those with less than $20,000 annual income.\u00a0 References to higher-income members mean those with $40,000 or higher annual income.<\/p>\n In several places, we make comparisons to four “similar housing coops”. \u00a0 Those co-ops are: \u00a0 Hugh Garner, William Lyon MacKenzie, Windmill Line and Oak Street.<\/p>\n INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n At their meeting in September, 1988, the members of Woodsworth discussed and adopted 12 social objectives for the Co-op.\u00a0 At that time, the members directed the Board to have a study carried out on the co-op’s progress on meeting these objectives.\u00a0 The report was to be brought back to members by March 31, 1989, in time for consideration prior to the adoption of the 1989-90 budget.<\/p>\n A Social Audit Committee was formed in October, 1989, to carry out the project. The Committee was open to all interested members and represented a reasonable cross-section of the current membership.<\/p>\n This document represents the Social Audit Committee’s report to the membership, The report is organized to comment on each of the 12 social objectives.\u00a0 Under each social objective are three sections. “Findings” includes the relevant information and data, as well as the questionnaire results. “Implications” covers the Social Audit Committee’s interpretation of the findings.\u00a0 “Recommended Actions” are specific steps\u00a0 strongly\u00a0 recommended\u00a0 by the\u00a0 Social\u00a0 Audit Committee to\u00a0 improve our performance on the particular social objective.<\/p>\n This report includes a significant amount of information about our co-op (but only a fraction of what we gathered).\u00a0 We strongly urge all members to take 20-30 minute to review this document in order to:\u00a0 1) decide whether you agree or disagree with our interpretation of the research;\u00a0 2) decide whether you agree or disagree with our recommended actions, or have any additional or alternate recommendations; and 3) be prepared to discuss these findings and recommendations at the special members\u2019 meeting in April.<\/p>\n If\u00a0 you\u00a0 have\u00a0 any\u00a0 further\u00a0 questions\u00a0 about\u00a0 this\u00a0 report\u00a0 prior\u00a0 to\u00a0 the\u00a0 special\u00a0 membership meeting, \u00a0please contact a committee member.<\/p>\n 1. Member involvement<\/a><\/p>\n 2. Demographics\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 3. Elections<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Board leadership\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 5. Quality of housing\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 6. Pricing\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 7. Progressive employer\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 8. Participation\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 9. Committees and volunteer workers<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 10. Co-op movement<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 11. Social issues\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 12. Enhancing the co-op community<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Social Audit Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Social Audit Committee, made up of a cross-section of members, prepared a report, organized to comment on each of the 12 social objectives.<\/p>\n Bill Ferguson, Larry Gordon (chair), Sally-Ann Heron, David lbbetson, Sarah Jackel, Nina ?, Milton Little, Kathy Mills, Jennifer Morris, Bev Norrena, Paula Norrena, Frances West , Carol Ann Witt<\/p>\n Under each social objective are three sections. – “Findings” includes the relevant information: and data, as well as the questionnaire results. – “lmplications” covers the Social Audit Committee’s interpretation of the findings. – “Recommended Actions” are specific steps strongly\u00a0 recommended\u00a0 by the\u00a0 Social\u00a0 Audit Committee to\u00a0 improve our performance on the particular social objective. 2024 … Continue reading “Social Audit, 1989: methodology and objectives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[472],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-16105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-social-audits","tag-social-audit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Click on each goal to read the report from the 1989 \u00a0social audit:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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