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.

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

SEWF 2013: Key Mindsets

This session targeted three key mindsets that cut across so many opportunities and challenges facing social enterprises and everyone else dedicated to

We hoped ‘impact’ would be a crucial component of the conversations throughout all of SEWF 2013, but we wanted to put that

SEWF 2013 Opening Greetings

Two of the many goals of the annual Social Enterprise World Forum are to build international linkage and galvanize the government of

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