Each year, the climate crisis intensifies, threatening the livelihoods of billions. Yet, amid this growing emergency, social, or impact enterprises—businesses prioritizing purpose and profit—are ...

Yet the term seems to be more often associated with people who intend to make a profit, but whose work is targeted toward long-term socio-economic change. Think Bill Gates, with his current ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Melissa Wheeler covers leadership strategy and the future of work. Social enterprises face a unique set of challenges as they ...

Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges. 1 See Robert H. Gertner, “The Organization of Social Enterprises,” Annual Review of Economics, vol. 15, 2023. 2 Two recent OECD ...

An award-winning social enterprise set up in south Derry in 1985 when 170 members of the local community raised £40,000 to ...

The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. To know whether a social ...

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 31, No. 3 (June 2020), pp. 521-532 (12 pages) This study is an empirical investigation of the survey data from 109 social ...

The impact of social enterprises could be amplified with more funding and better policies. Social enterprises, which make up 3% of all businesses globally, stand out from traditional businesses by ...

Motshedisi Mathibe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. November 11 - Our planet faces a devastating loss of nature. Over a million plant and animal species are on the brink of ...

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 31, No. 3 (June 2020), pp. 472-483 (12 pages) Social enterprises have gained wide recognition as a tool for solving ...

It is Social Enterprise Week, which coincides with Diabetes Awareness Month. As we approach the holiday season, this is a great time to encourage everyone to be mindful of how they can create social ...