Social Entrepreneurship Network in the Baltic Sea Region
WildHearts is a social enterprise in Glasgow, Scotland, that sells office supplies and document management services to large companies. WildHearts use the profits to offer entrepreneurial education and micro-finance for young people in the UK and in the rest of the world. WildHearts is based on a simple business idea – “social innovation and social…
It was a wet cold dark winters day in Iceland back in 2013 that I met Rakel Sölvadóttir of Skema at her office at Reykjavik University. The weather contrasted what I soon discovered was a light in my search of the Icelandic Social Enterpreneur, which Rakel truly embodied as she recounted her social entrepreneurial journey….
What’s your mission and purpose? For a social entrepreneur it’s a calling, if you will. A call within that is a culmination of life circumstances that strikes a chord of not-being-able-to-sit-back-anymore…something needs to change. Your mission and purpose is born. What’s a mission or purpose I believe everyone has a purpose in their life….
A Lithuanian team behind sustainable hand made knitwear – The Knotty Ones decided to do their socially minded business by engaging low-income women across Lithuania. Three young women founders of The Knotty Ones are big believers in shopping less, but better. They say that their mission is to celebrate quality garments that will last you…
Poko is the most comfortable eco-friendly shopping bag that has ever been made. Weighing in at 10g, Poko is the lightweight champion but it is also reusable for hundreds of times and machine washable so you can use it to carry all sorts of fruits and vegetables. The best part about Poko is that it…
“It is impossible to plan everything for the journey ahead so go with your gut and navigate while driving” Name: Gustav Bratt Position: CEO of Giggle.se What is your connection to SSES, and how has it influenced or affected your journey? As SSE alumni we were eligible to apply for the SSES Fellowship and we’ve…
When creating a social enterprise one of the aspects that need to be considered is the ability of your target customers to pay. This question is, of course, present also when launching a regular business, but taking into consideration the often very specific target audience of a social enterprise, it is especially relevant for those…
A STUDY ABOUT A SUITABLE BUSINESS MODEL FOR A CHARITY ORGANIZATION WeCare is an Australian charity organization founded privately in 2011 to support a children’s home and later also a private primary school in Kahawa West, Nairobi. The study objective was to find out what type of an operational model would best serve WeCare’s goals…
The “Pay-what-you-can” businessmodel is used by both non-profit and for-profit businesses. In most cases it is used by businesses, that do not need or depend on having a set prices for its products or services. Instead the business can asks its customers to pay what they feel the product or service is worth to them….
We highly recommend this text on social entrepreneurship business models by Danielle Sutton on Acumen website. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2 project co-funded by the Erasmus+, as our aim is to popularize social business and social entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region. +Acumen offers world-class online courses that empower you…
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