Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
Change Creator™ has identified 9 working social enterprise business models that bring value to customers. As they state, there are 3 measures that define if a business model in generalis successful or not: the model’s ability to generate profit for its owners, its ability to generate positive change in the world, and its ability to…
The Association for Finnish Work, which governs the Finnish social enterprise mark has researched which are the indicators for a responsible company, and what kind of issues annoy Finnish people in business. According to the research, the most important indicators for the responsible company are environmental responsibility, valuing Finnish work, and openness (transparency) of the…
We all long for simple tools and examples how to understand the logic of stepping towards social impact. Finnish innovation fund Sitra has for 3 years built a impact investment ecosystem in Finland, and as part of the work, aimed to enhance the service providers’ and municipalities’ capability to work towards more impactful procurement. As…
The new tool has been published to assist entrepreneurs and organizations to look at business and activities, to design strategies, products and organizations “as a platform.” As a synthesis of different definitions, developers say that platforms are scalable collaboration agreements powered by technologies: it’s not easy to differentiate between a technology, a strategy or an…
Roman Aranin is a social entrepreneur from Kaliningrad (Russia). In the past, a military pilot, then a successful entrepreneur, Roman broke on a paraglider. The result is an almost complete lack of ability to move independently. Even today, after many years of rehabilitation, Roman needs a special assistant to breathe freely. Roman did not give…
The buzz is steadily increasing about tools that measure the impact of social enterprises and standardized metrics for assessing social, economic, and environmental impact. However, there are currently no easily applicable tools for social entrepreneurs to measure their businesses in this way. SAMforSE has been specially created to cover this gap. SAMforSE is a tool…
Recently the European Commission has released a publication about the use of EU-Funds for Social Inclusion, titled “Social Inclusion: Inspiring Trends in European Funded Projects”. The publication summarises the outcomes of a thematic cluster meeting held in Brussels on the 9th October 2017. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2 project co-funded by the…
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the Uk and Us” is a new book by eksperter fra Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Southern California and Nonprofit Finance. As budgets are cut, the `Payment by Results’ (or Pay for Success) model has…
ABSTRACT This paper discusses transformative social innovation, conceptualised as the process through which social innovation contributes to societal transformation. A conceptual heuristic is introduced that proposes five foundational concepts to help distinguish between different pertinent ‘shades’ of change and innovation: 1) social innovation, (2) system innovation, (3) gamechangers, (4) narratives of change and (5) societal…
“We have courage and are unafraid. With the prayerful cooperation of millions of our bag contributors and of our workers, we will press on till the curse of poverty and exploitation is banished from mankind.” Dr. Helm, Founder of Goodwill. This is a story of how one idea grew into an impactful reality: how an…
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