Brussels unveils ‘once in a decade’ Social Economy Action Plan to rave reviews
A long-awaited package to promote the social economy across the European Union was [...]
B Impact Assessment
B Impact Assessment Developed by B Lab, a non-profit organization dedicated to using [...]
The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good
B corporation does not really fulfill all of the criteria set by the [...]
Taking the pulse on the Nordic Changemaker landscape
The Nordic Changemaker Map is a collaborative project with the objective to identify [...]
Social Entrepreneurship – Manual and Curriculum
Some time ago EU funded project partners led by the NGO from the [...]
Not a Lack of Funding
Lessons Learned from Alternative Finance Experts – A View from Spain Culture is an extremely complex concept to define. It is generally referred to as the set of tangible and intangible material assets of a social group inherited across generations in order to guide individual and collective practices. Cultural changes, the mindset of societies and the shift in thinking can usually take decades or even centuries or millennia. Changes take place gradually, so they are difficult to perceive on a day-to-day basis. […]
Training modules provided by the Social Innovation Academy
The Academy is the first fully online management training programme focusing exclusively on social [...]
Why do so few social enterprises go international?
Recently EUCLID posted a summary report on the scaling of social enterprises. It is quite interesting and insightful. Here is a full link to the article. Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of social enterprises across the world, introducing a broad range of innovations to different industries. Recent estimates suggest that already 21% to 26% of start-ups in Europe operate with a social, community or environmental goal as a primary organizational purpose. Many of these ventures innovate and create novel approaches to address such challenges. However, even the best innovations can only unfold their impact potential when they are brought to scale. In light of the many pressing challenges global society is facing and the limited availability of resources, time, and attention to solving them, scaling of the most effective and efficient solutions has been argued to be an ethical imperative. As a popular quote, attributed to former US president Bill Clinton, puts it: “Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.” In spite of this clear need for internationalising innovative social enterprises, the vast majority of social entrepreneurs operate only on a local scale. A survey of social entrepreneurs we conducted in the global Impact Hub Network showed that only 5.7% of early-stage social entrepreneurs declared having been actively internationalising their work in the past year, and only about 17% of organisations reported attempts to scale their activities overall (locally or internationally). […]
It is ok not to be a social entrepreneur
Not every NGO has to become a social enterprise in order to reach [...]
SEDETT Educational Resources for Social Enterprise Development
The SEDETT (Social Enterprise Development Education and Training Tools) project was funded by [...]