Socialøkonomiske virksomheder – øjebliksbillede fra landene omkring det Baltiske Hav
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Socialøkonomiske virksomheder – øjebliksbillede fra landene omkring det Baltiske Hav

Rapporten Social Enterprise Sector Snapshot Around The Baltic Sea giver et øjebliksbillede af den socialøkonomiske sektor i de baltiske lande i forhold til aktører, uddannelsestilbud og effektmåling.

 

Rapporten er en del af projektet ”The Social Entrepreneurship Development in the Baltic Sea region”, der er er iværksat under Erasmus+ programmet og er medfinansieret af EU.

 

Rapporten er samlet af græsrodsorganisationer, som aktivt bidrager til at udvikle den socialøkonomiske sektor i Danmark, Estland, Letland, Litauen, Sverige, Finland og Polen. Sociale Entreprenører i Danmark har bidraget til rapportens danske del.

 

Forfatterne har valgt at koncentrererapporten omkring tre hovedtemaer: Aktører der har indflydelse på det socialøkonomiske felt, uddannelse og måling og analyse af social effekt.
Forfatterne har også tilstræbt at være subjektivt oprigtige, og håber at denne tilgang kan bidrage til, at læserne kan se behov og muligheder for forbedringer samt muligheder for regionalt samarbejde.

 

Først giver rapporten en præsentation af aktører i den socialøkonomiske sektor i de enkelte lande.
Denne del er oversat til dansk og kan læses her

 

Dernæst ser rapporten på uddannelse indenfor socialt entreprenørskab og socialøkonomiske virksomheder. Denne rapport er så vidt vides den første til at foretage en sådan mapping i regionen.
Denne del findes kun i den engelske udgave af rapporten: ”Social Enterprise Sector Snapshot Around The Baltic Sea: Stakeholders Education Impact Analysis”.

 

Endelig ser rapporten på status for Effektanalyse og måling af social effekt.
At skabe positiv social effekt er raison d’être for enhver offentlig velgørende organisationen, også for socialøkonomiske virksomheder. Alligevel er det at definere, analysere og kommunikere social effekt en af de store begrænsninger i forhold til udviklingen af den socialøkonomiske sektor.
Rapporten beskriver status for dette arbejde og kan forhåbentlig være med til at skabe opmærksomhed omkring behovet for strategiske tiltag i de 7 lande.
Denne del findes kun i den engelske udgave af rapporten: Social Enterprise Sector Snapshot Around The Baltic Sea: Stakeholders Education Impact Analysis.

 

Forfatterne til rapporten er:
Finland: Iiro Niemi, Social Entrepreneurship Academy of Finland –
Estland: Jaan Aps, Estonian Social Enterprise Network
Danmark: Per Bach, Sociale Entreprenører i Danmark
Letland: Renate Lukjanska, Biedrība „Sociālās inovācijas centrs”
Litauen: Mindaugas Danys, Socialines ir ekonomines pletros centras
Polen: Anna Cebula, Kinga Zglinicka Centrum Rozwoju Inicjatyw Spolecznych CRIS
Sverige: Bert-Ola Bergstrand, Social Kapital Forum

 

Læs rapporten  den engelske rapport her

 

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Selected impact analysis resources in English
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Selected impact analysis resources in English


Hereby please find some of the greatest hits of impact analysis materials in English. Be inspired and guided!

Getting Finance for Social Enterprise Sector in Sweden

Getting Finance for Social Enterprise Sector in Sweden

Over the last years several new initiatives and funding opportunities have been established including new models, platforms aimed at increasing the availability of capital for social enterprises in Sweden.

Mikrofund West is one of the initiatives, a funding organization owned by civil society organizations focusing mainly on cooperatives and social enterprises. The fund can be seen a role model for micro financing initiatives that are expanding across Sweden. To date two initiatives exist; Micro Fund Z (Jämtland County) and Micro Fund East (Stockholm County). The funding for the micro funds comes from a combination of public and private organisations.

Recently, in December 2014, the business region of Gothenburg has decided to support Microfund west with 3 million Swedish Crowns. Other important channels for funding of the social enterprise sector are Regions and Municipalities. Leading the development is the Western region of Sweden and the region Skåne. Both have supported the sector through social investment funds.

Primarily they provide seed-capital and the funds are often directed to interventions for children and youth, but also to job creation and homelessness. At the moment there are no new grants one can apply for in the regions, but there are ongoing projects being financed. Among the municipalties Norrköping, Umeå and Ale are stand out as pioneers. According to a study by the Forum for Social Innovation 46 of the 290 municipalities have had some type of social investment funding in 2013.

There are also two social banks operating in Sweden, The JAK Bank and Ekobanken, focusing on businesses with a clear focus on social and ecological value creation. In addition, it’s worth knowing that these social banks together with Coompanion and the Association “Hela Sverige ska leva” incorporating more than 4,700 local development groups have initiated and promote the emergent micro-finance sector.

A recent phenomenon is also providing a new source of funding for social enterprise. Today, there are at least 4 available Swedish platforms. FundedByMe, Polstjärna, Crowdcube and Crowdculture.

Other Initiatives related to funding of the social enterprise landscape Impact Invest Scandinavia impact investor network in Sweden which connects promising social enterprises with impact investors.

Idéer för Livet, a project with its base in Skandia Insurance, provides seed money funding for projects related to youth and children. Since it started in 1987 it has funded more than 3,000 projects. (Alamaa, 2014) Uppstart Malmö is a foundation which has drawn investments from a number of private investors who have contributed around 30 million SEK in total.

Uppstart Malmö also supports entrepreneurs with its extensive network of partners and advisors. Hjärna Hjärta Cash provides seed-stage equity investments for for-profit social ventures. It also provides business development support.

Social impact bonds, which is a new approach for the public sector to attract financing from new sources (e.g. private foundations and investors). Only successful projects are paid for by the public sector meaning that the risk is transferred to other actors which in turn is thought to encourage innovative initiatives that otherwise would have difficulties in finding financing.

This instrument can be vital for a country like Sweden with a large welfare sector that needs new ways of financing and gives incentive to innovations. Public contracts in procurement sums up to 700 billion SEK yearly which says something of the potential.

However, today, a lot of social enterprises find it hard to enter the public service market due to the complex regulations. Making public procurement processes more accessible to smaller organizations and social enterprises will further their role in providing public services. (Alamaa, 2014)

Successful Business Models in Lithuania – case 3: Food Bank

Successful Business Models in Lithuania – case 3: Food Bank

Food Bank Lithuania is a typical food recovery and redistribution charity/social enterprise. It’s a very effective organisation playing vital role in supplementing food options or the socially disadvantaged people across the country. Food Bank has agreements with some of the largest grocery chains for redistributing some of the unsold food that otherwise would have been wasted.

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The Lithuanian food bank „Maisto bankas” was launched in 2001. „Maisto bankas” operates across Lithuania as a mediator collecting donated food from retailers, producers, general public and providing them to the poor through the network of social non-profits; the latter ensure that donated foodstuffs reach beneficiaries in need.

The Lithuanian Food Bank is a member of the European Federation of Food Banks (FEBA) since 2008.

„Maisto bankas” runs offices and warehouses in 4 major Lithuanian regional centres – Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys. With the help of 378 volunteers and 25 employees „Maisto bankas” collects and distributes food on a daily basis in 46 Lithuanian cities. „Maisto bankas” cooperates with the network of 707 charities and social institutions.

In 2014 „Maisto bankas” collected 4657 tons of food worth 4,2 M EUR. That allowed the Lithuanian food bank to serve more than 5,9 million meals to the poor.

Collaborating with second largest Lithuanian retailer “IKI”, „Maisto bankas” runs a national project of minimizing food waste.  „Maisto Bankas” collects close-to-date, fresh and perishable food items and swiftly distributes them to the needy. During the 2014 “IKI” donated food worth 1,5 M EUR. As a result 1129 tons food had been saved from being wasted and was delivered to the needy.

Twice a year „Maisto bankas” organizes national food collections. During them last year Lithuanian people donated 660 000 EUR worth of food. Up to 140 000 shoppers participate in each food collection donating cereals, pastas, canned goods and other non-perishable food items. Food collections are organized in 57 Lithuanian cities with the help of more than 7800 volunteers. Collected food is distributed to the poor through 300 co-operating charities. Food collections provide 12% of „Maisto bankas” incoming food donations.

Since 2006, along with Lithuanian Caritas and Red Cross „Maisto bankas” distributes European Food Aid Programme (PEAD) food parcels to the most vulnerable citizens. PEAD food contributes up to 23% of the whole annual bulk of food aid distributed by „Maisto bankas”.

Lithuanian Food Bank has exposed 23 special food containers in “Rimi” hypermarkets in 12 major cities. There “Rimi” customers can donate non-perishable food items by placing them in these containers. Lithuanian Food Bank volunteers discard these containers twice a month. Donated food is distributed to most needy people living in respected communities.

Thanks to corporate and private donations and contributions from devoted volunteers, „Maisto bankas” can operate highly effectively – each donated euro generates the food aid equivalent of €15.

More information is available in Lithuanian: www.maistobankas.lt

Successful Business Models in Lithuania – case 1: Socialinis Taksi

Successful Business Models in Lithuania – case 1: Socialinis Taksi

Social enterprise Socialinis Taksi (Social Taxi) is providing subsidised taxi services to the disabled people in 3 largest Lithuanian cities. Part of their services are being paid by the municipality and the rest by the customers.socialinis_taksi

It is a very important service for the people with limited abilities to move around the city. People who have physical disabilities and live in Vilnius or Klaipėda, major cities in Lithuania, are able to call on the online-powered cab service, which helps them get around through increased assistance and accessibility.

To make matters easier for Social Taxi’s riders, the service operates with unbelievably low fares that are much lower than the prices for Lithuania’s regular taxis. A one-way ride on Social Taxi typically costs 1 EUR. Regular taxi prices are much higher: starting at 0,50 EUR, with an additional 0,70 EUR for every kilometer driven. The affordability helps, as disabled people can have relatively low incomes. But scaling up such a project doesn’t come cheap or easy.

Despite the fact that the project required a huge investment, its founder does not see this cost as a problem. “If more initiatives emerged that solved concrete problems, then there would be enough money. There is so much improperly used money in Lithuania,” Arunas Survila, CEO of the company says. That opinion is widely shared by Lithuania’s politicians and public. Even the country’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, remarked in her annual speech on the state of the nation, “As we fought the downturn and worked to save our country from bankruptcy, we saw very clearly that the shortage of funds is not Lithuania’s biggest problem. Lithuania’s biggest problem is corrupt interest groups and irresponsible overspending.”

Fortunately, local municipalities, private companies and nongovernmental organizations have helped Social Taxi survive the money shortage and put it in a position to provide inexpensive service.

But with a clear eye on long-term sustainability, Survila plans to steer away from a complete reliance on outsider funds. “In the future, we want to cover at least 50 percent of our costs by Social Taxi revenues, because we cannot be assured that we will be supported by the government.” Government officeholders in Lithuania have one term every four years.

As it stands, many social enterprises in Lithuania go bankrupt because of a lack of investment and support from both private and governmental institutions. Many people do not launch social enterprises simply because they do not expect them to be profitable without outside support. There are simply not enough NGOs and private companies to prop up social businesses. And, even when they do receive financial support, social enterprises could be better helped with added access to advertising and investors.

More information is available here: http://socialinistaksi.lt/

Successful Business Models in Sweden – case 1: Inclusive Business Sweden

Successful Business Models in Sweden – case 1: Inclusive Business Sweden

Inclusive Business Sweden serves as a platform for creating awareness of inclusive business, facilitating collaboration between organisations, as well as for connecting and supporting organisations to create opportunities associated with the BoP.

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Purpose

Inclusive Business Sweden is the Swedish national center for the advancement of inclusive business initiatives with the “Base of the Pyramid” (BoP) – the 4,5 billion individuals living on under $8 a day. These 4,5 billion represent an immense economic opportunity, entrepreneurial capacity, untapped source of business growth and exciting opportunity for business to contribute to global development goals and poverty alleviation.

The BoP is also used to describe a business strategy that focuses on meeting this segment’s basic needs by engaging them as consumers, producers and entrepreneurs – this is often termed “inclusive business”.

Growth Mechanism

As growth in mature markets begins to stagnate, many businesses are now turning to the BoP market as an untapped source of growth. Even for basic-needs products and services such as food, water, energy, health, IT and transportation, the market potential has been estimated at a value of $5 trillion3.

The telecommunications and micro-finance industries have been the first to see tremendous success from these ventures. Many large businesses are leveraging their BoP strategies to simultaneously grow their businesses while playing a role as good corporate citizens by helping to meet the basic needs of the BoP. Firms such as Unilever, Danone, Microsoft, Vodafone, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Philips have been quite successful in applying these strategies.

Concept of Inclusive Business

The concept of Inclusive Business with the BoP was originally described by C.K Prahalad, in the book The Fortune At The Bottom of the Pyramid. According to Bill Gates, this model “provides an intriguing blueprint for how to fight poverty with profitability.”

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Snapshot on Social Entrepreneurship Development in Sweden

Snapshot on Social Entrepreneurship Development in Sweden

Sweden has a tradition of social movements going back to 19th century, though what today is meant by the social economy was fairly recently introduced in Sweden in 1995 after joining the European Union in 1995. Sweden has, in comparison to many other European countries, an extensive welfare state. With increasing challenges to finance, the welfare state and societal challenges, a gap for new solutions has opened up where social entrepreneurs have a role to play.

Stakeholders

Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden is one of the growing sector of Swedish economy where the public and private sectors are collaborating to reap the social and environmental benefits derive from the development of social entrepreneurship around the country.

Examples of some of the stakeholders that have supported the education and impact of developing social entrepreneurship around the country, like the establishment of forum for Social Innovation (MSI) is a platform for academia, industry, government and non-profit organisations in Sweden who want to take part in the development of the fields of social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Another platform for economic agency is established which is part of the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. Its main task is to foster entrepreneurship, business and regional development. The economic agency of growth aims to make social enterprises and to benefit them by the enabling of creative interventions. They have been continuously asked by the government to generally support the social economy including the social enterprise field with some programmes for funding and administrative issues for development of the social enterprise sector in general.

Reach for Change:

‘Reach for Change’ is a non-profit with a mission to support individuals, companies and organizations focusing on improving children’s lives. Reach for Change’s core products are its programmes. Among others they offer campaigns where they seek to raise awareness on the vulnerability of childhood. An important aspect of the programmes is to engage the business entrepreneurs of the Kinnevik group as mentors. They also provide enterprises with funding.

The Swedish Inheritance Fund

The Swedish Inheritance Fund provides grants to organisations to test new ideas for activities for children, young people and persons with disabilities. Examples of projects would be those focusing on producing materials and pilot studies; others have been more related to targeting marginalized people with educational activities. For example people who suffer from some form of physical disability. There is no categorization in how much funding is supporting social enterprise specifically but a report from 2013 says that 67 projects were financed between 1994-2012. Total funding was 12.4 million Swedish crowns.

The inclusive business register (Företagsregistret) is a database provided by Statistics Sweden comprising most all companies and organisations in Sweden. Yet no attempt has been made to enable emphasis on social enterprise. A number of 500 organizations are needed to start coding a sector of actors. Steps in forming the sector is underway and, if required more information check the database.

 

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Impact analysis resources in national languages

While most of impact analysis materials are still available only in English, there are luckily more and more materials also in national languages of the Baltic Sea Region countries.

Please find selected materials in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Polish.

DENMARK

1. The Danish Ministry of Education´s guide on how to create a Theory of Change – link is here.
2. Example of the SROI report by Gallo Crisis Counseling in 2014 – link is here.
3. Example of the Impact Analysis Report by The Specialist People Foundation in 2013 – link is here.

ESTONIA

1. Social impact analysis handbook for civil society organisations – link is here.
2. Outcome and impact reports of Estonian social enterprises – link is here.
3. A video about social impact analysis for the municipalities that cooperate with social enterprises and other civil society organisations – link is here.

FINLAND
1. A report by the ESR project “Third Source” (2013) investigates a wide range of impact
measurement methodologies and also includes a wide range of links to databases, indicator banks, publications etc. – link is here.
2. Jelli – A compilation site that introduces helpful tools and links to impact measurement methodologies – link is here.
3. A handbook of social accounting – link is here.
4. Sofie method – a Finnish impact measurement system combining Social Accounting and SROI methodologies – link is here.

LITHUANIA
1. General methodology of state impact assessment system, including social impact, which provides the baseline for impact assessment of state funded projects and strategies – link is here.
2. Methodological support for impact assessment provided by the Association of Public
Private partnerships – link is here.

POLAND
1. eRPES – IT tool for the evaluation and benchmarking of social economy entities in five
dimensions: economic efficiency, cooperation, resources and organizational competence and social utility – link is here. A presentation about the tool can be found here.
2. ProveIt.pl – a tool for measuring various aspects of social economy entities, including the impact of socio-economic, human and social capital (including the contribution of volunteers) – links are here and here.
3. Esometr – a tool for verifying the extent to which social economy entities meet the targets that are placed before them (social and professional integration, social capital, local community)
– links are here and here.

Soovitused KOVidele sotsiaalse ettevõtluse iduettevõtete arengu soodustamiseks
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Soovitused KOVidele sotsiaalse ettevõtluse iduettevõtete arengu soodustamiseks

Sobivate tingimuste loomine uute sotsiaalsete ettevõtete tekkimiseks (püsivad inkubatsioonimehhanismid) nõuab mitmekülgset tegevust erinevates valdkondades. Enamiku valdkondade puhul saavad kohalikud omavalitsused positiivse arengutee kujunemist oluliselt mõjutada. Kuigi see on kohalike omavalitsuste jaoks ambitsioonikas ja suurt tähelepanu ning oskusi nõudev ülesanne, soovime neid siiski julgustada seda jõupingutust tegema – tulemus on seda väärt.

Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse mõju ja tugevuse kasv ühiskonnas sõltub suuresti just kohalike omavalitsuste suhtumisest ja tegevusest sotsiaalse ettevõtluse vallas.

LINK ülevaatele asub siin.

 

Projekt „Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse areng Läänemere regioonis“ viidi läbi programmi Erasmus + toetuse ja Euroopa Liidu kaasfinantseerimise abil.

Trükise sisu eest vastutab ainuüksi väljaandja/esitleja; siin ei esitata Euroopa Komisjoni ega ühegi sellega seotud organisatsiooni vaateid. Need institutsioonid ei kanna vastutust käsiraamatus esitatud teabe eest.

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Haridusalane toetus sotsiaalsele ettevõtlusele Läänemeremaades
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Haridusalane toetus sotsiaalsele ettevõtlusele Läänemeremaades

Veel mõne aasta eest sarnanes sotsiaalne ettevõtlus enamikus Euroopa riikides ”mustale kastile”. Kui avastati ja mõisteti sotsiaalse ettevõtluse potentsiaali finantsiliselt jätkusuutliku positiivse ühiskondliku muutuse loomisel, hakkasid uurijad ja analüütikud sellele tähelepanu pöörama.

Kõigest mõni kuu enne selle dokumendi valmimist avaldati veebis kaks aruannet. Euroopa Komisjon avaldas oma esimese sotsiaalseid ettevõtteid võrdleva ülevaate 2014. aasta lõpus. Selles põhjalikus uurimuses kirjeldatakse 28 Euroopa Liidu liikmesriigi ja Šveitsi sotsiaalse ettevõtluse peamisi tunnusjooni, kasutades tavapärast definitsiooni ja lähenemisviisi. Antakse ka üldistav ülevaade sotsiaalse ettevõtluse süsteemidest maade kaupa, mainides sealjuures nende arengut piiravaid tegureid.

Lisaks sellele avaldas üks Euroopa Sotsiaalfondi õpivõrgustikest, Sotsiaalse Ettevõtluse Võrgustik (The Social Entrepreneurship Network), 2013-14. aastal uurimuse „Policy meets practice – enabling the growth of social enterprises“ („Poliitika ja praktika puutepunkt: sotsiaalsete ettevõtete kasvu võimaldamisest“). Selles esitatakse mõned näited võtmepoliitikate ning nendega seotud heade praktikate kohta valitud EL liikmesriikides.

Senistes aruannetes on mitmed olulised aspektid siiski katmata jäänud. Seetõttu esitab käesolev aruanne infot nii formaal- kui mitteformaalhariduslike võimaluste kohta seoses sotsiaalse ettevõtlusega Läänemere piirkonna riikides.

Link ülevaatele asub siin.

 

Projekt „Sotsiaalse ettevõtluse areng Läänemere regioonis“ viidi läbi programmi Erasmus + toetuse ja Euroopa Liidu kaasfinantseerimise abil.

Trükise sisu eest vastutab ainuüksi väljaandja/esitleja; siin ei esitata Euroopa Komisjoni ega ühegi sellega seotud organisatsiooni vaateid. Need institutsioonid ei kanna vastutust käsiraamatus esitatud teabe eest.

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