Volunteer groups of Woodsworth members surveyed the membership about key goals for the co-op in 1989 and 2001. The results were published with main findings and a review with implications and recommended actions.<\/p>\n
A social audit is a way of measuring, understanding, reporting and ultimately improving an organization\u2019s social and ethical performance. We were trying to figure out where we were, how far had we drifted from our values, and what we could do it fix it.<\/p>\n
The first Woodsworth social audit was in 1989. In both cases, since the audits \u00a0were designed, administered and compiled by a committee of co-op volunteers and not trained social scientists, the figures reported are subject to an unknown margin of error.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Social Audit 1989<\/a> Member involvement<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02001 social audit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This is the second and reviewed members’ views on various topics and demographics. There is a comparison to some of the 1989 objectives in some areas.<\/p>\n Quality of housing<\/a> Methodology and followup:<\/strong> Volunteer groups of Woodsworth members surveyed the membership about key goals for the co-op in 1989 and 2001. The results were published with main findings and a review with implications and recommended actions. A social audit is a way of measuring, understanding, reporting and ultimately improving an organization\u2019s social and ethical performance. We were trying … Continue reading “Social audits 1989 and 2001”<\/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":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[484,472],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-16120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-social-audits-archives-outdated-documents","category-social-audits","tag-social-audit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16120","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=16120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThis was the first of two social audits. The Social Audit ad hoc Committee did a survey of members. This report has key findings, and a review with implications and recommended actions.<\/p>\n
\nDemographics<\/a>
\n<\/span>Elections<\/a>
\n<\/span>Board leadership<\/a>
\nQuality of housing<\/a>
\n<\/span>Pricing<\/a>
\nProgressive employer<\/a>
\nParticipation<\/a>
\nCommittees and volunteer workers<\/a>
\nCo-op movement<\/a>
\n<\/span>Social issues<\/a>
\nEnhancing the co-op community\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSafety and security<\/a>
\nLiving in harmony<\/a>
\nEnvironmental concerns<\/a>
\nParticipation<\/a>
\nFairness<\/a>
\nDemographics<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe 1989 social audit also offers a short report of methodology.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"