What role do social enterprises play in addressing systemic inequalities?

The Swartz Center Social Enterprise Prize is a new competition at Carnegie Mellon University designed to empower students to develop entrepreneurial solutions. Social enterprises are businesses with a social or environmental purpose, and whose profits are re-invested into fulfilling their mission. Raise defines Social Enterprises (SEs) as business entities set up with clear social goals; and where there is clear management intent and resources ... We develop programmes, products and services to scale up social entrepreneurs' businesses and increase their impact. This report provides a comprehensive synthesis of the global state of social enterprise, using data from more than 80 countries gathered between 2013 and 2023. Recently, there has been increased interest in “social enterprises,” or ventures that seek to both return a profit to their owners while also providing social ... Sarah Appleby manages an array of Social Enterprise Executive Education programs which are designed to provide practitioners with opportunities to enhance their ... Social Business Wales is made up of a team of specialist business advisors focusing on setting up and supporting social enterprises. We've been advising social ... Social enterprise exists on a continuum that blends a market approach with a mission that helps the community and environment. “Social enterprise” means using business tools to address a social need. This concept may or may not overlap with “social innovation,” which means addressing a ...