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FAQ: What’s the Definition of Social Entrepreneurship?

This is a blog series dedicated to the frequently asked questions we get during the Ask Me Anything About Social Enterprise (AMAASE) sessions. One frequently asked question we get asked is “what is the definition of social enterprise?”

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Prizes of $270,000 celebrate all stages of social enterprises across Canada

At its core, social entrepreneurship uses business models/ markets to solve social problems. Regardless of whether it’s an individual or an organization, regardless of their choice of incorporation- non-profit or for-profit, these elements are the driving and amplifying force.

We support social entrepreneurship.

We are a private foundation that believes in supporting social entrepreneurship through programmatic, grant making, and partnership approaches. We take a systems view to every decision we make and foster social entrepreneurship by supporting the ecosystem and providing social entrepreneurs with capacity building resources.

We are entrepreneurial.

We believe in making social entrepreneurship mainstream. We know we can’t do it alone. Which is why we don’t just fund organizations; we work with them and learn with them to move the sector forward, taking risks along the way.

Open Data: Driving Scale & Impact

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November 28, 2014

This session was moderated by Eva Friesen, President and CEO, The Calgary Foundation and featured: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center

Rural Realities: Designing a Social Enterprise Policy Framework for the Rural Context

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November 27, 2014

This session looked at social enterprise policy development with a rural lens. This international panel of intermediaries and practitioners presented and discussed

Making Time for Research: Why Research Helps and How You Can Help Research

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November 27, 2014

Too often practitioners and researchers find themselves on either side of a linguistic, technical, and cultural divide. Building on a pre-SEWF 2013

Three Things Public Policy Needs to do for Social Enterprise to Thrive in 2023

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November 26, 2014

In this session public sector leaders and key practitioners took turns spending three to four minutes identifying their three key public policy