How to advance gender equality through the social economy? 

How to advance gender equality through the social economy? 

The social economy is an essential field in promoting gender equality. In most countries, women often make up more than 60% of the workforce, and gaps in leadership and pay have been reported lower. It is because social economy organisations prioritise people over profit and embody values such as solidarity, inclusivity, equality, and democratic governance….

Involved NGO Estonia
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6 Questions To Ask Before You Start A Social Enterprise

Eager to change the world? Here’s what you need to figure out before you can start. Treating diseases, addressing climate change, expanding access to healthy food or creating new methods of learning. These are just a few of the major social challenges that companies–yes, companies–are working to solve. Of course, the public and nonprofit sectors…

ILO and the OECD adopt international documents on the social economy

ILO and the OECD adopt international documents on the social economy

On Friday 9 June and Saturday 10 June, two international organizations, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved two important international documents on social economics: – Conclusions on decent work and the social and solidarity economy, which were adopted at the 110th International Labor Conference. and –…

20 Best Social Enterprise Blogs & Websites
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20 Best Social Enterprise Blogs & Websites

The best Social Enterprise blog list curated from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. 1. NextBillion NextBillion.net is an open forum for discussion of social enterprise, poverty alleviation, and business development in emerging markets and beyond. Its goal is to stimulate discussion, raise awareness, and provide a…

Social innovation VS Social Entrepreneurship
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Social innovation VS Social Entrepreneurship

Welcome to the Social Innovation | Social Entrepreneurship section. This section will help you understand the fundamentals of Social Innovation | Social Entrepreneurship. This section is not intended to be exhaustive list about everything “social”, but rather to give an overall view of what we see in the space. “Social innovation is the process of…

The complete guide to growing and scaling your social enterprise
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The complete guide to growing and scaling your social enterprise

We’ve learned a few things in helping support over 900 social enterprises around the world scale their operations with the help of our Experteers, Capacity Building Programs, research, and educational programming. Our work has touched early stage, award-winning enterprises long before they reached international acclaim, including groups like Inyenyeri, Sistema B, M-KOPA, Ubongo and BEMPU….

The relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development from economic growth perspective: 15 ‘RCEP’ countries
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The relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development from economic growth perspective: 15 ‘RCEP’ countries

Social entrepreneurship plays a role in sustainable development to value creation, delivering and capturing, in this article, researchers attempted to find the nature of the relationships between the sustainable development and its latent variables, and how can these variables effect on sustainable development. Two models were used to estimate the relationships mentioned before, structural equation…