Fogo Island, Newfoundland, economic development charity
Shorefast is a Canadian social enterprise focusing on building economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island, Newfoundland.[1][2]
The enterprise includes a variety of charitable programs (run by Shorefast Foundation, a registered Canadian charity) and social businesses (run by Shorefast Social Enterprises Inc.),[3][4][5][6][7] which include the Fogo Island Inn[8][9][10][11][12] Following visitors' interest in the Inn's locally-made furnishings, Shorefast founded The Woodshop on Fogo Island, another social business whose surpluses are reinvested in the community.[13][14][15]
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Shorefast is a Canadian social enterprise focusing on building economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. The enterprise includes...
Ocean. Zita is the co-founder and CEO of the registered Canadian charity, Shorefast, which she launched with her brothers Anthony and Alan Cobb, on Fogo Island...
2013. The Fogo Island Inn was designed by Todd Saunders for his client Shorefast, a registered charity of Canada established by Zita Cobb and her brothers...
these structures. Females give birth to a single pup on ice floes or shorefast ice in March or April after a 9-month gestation period. Pups are weaned...
how the Arctic region is the first to be affected by climate change. Shorefast ice tends to form later in fall. In September 2007, the concentration...
Strategic Director of Fogo Island Arts, an initiative of the Canadian Shorefast Foundation to find alternative solutions for the revitalization of the...
sheds after 4-6 weeks. The pups nurse for as long as 2 months in stable shorefast ice, but for as little as 3-6 weeks in moving ice. During nursing, Arctic...
Retrieved 2010-12-03. "Oral Histories of the BBMS" (PDF). The Western Shorefast. 2010. Retrieved 2024-01-18. "Bonne Bay Marine Station - History". Archived...