The Social Planning Council of Sudbury (SPCS) is a community based non-profit organization with a mandate to provide social research and community development services in order to plan for and deliver social services in an effective and efficient manner. We work with various sectors of the community, providing data and assisting in the development of plans and strategies that have allowed for the successful implementation of community-based work plans for over 20 years. Having provided research, facilitation and evaluation services in regards to community planning for these many years the SPCS has recently organized itself more effectively with a business plan launching our “social enterprise” department that offers a full slate of research and community development expertise available to our own local community and to the Sudbury-Manitoulin District as well as to other regions of the north and the province as a whole. This model is contributing to the sustainability of social planning in our community.