Course: Social Enterprise: Business Doing Good

In this video, we hear about some different ways in which the UK government has encouraged social enterprise. What are some other means by which national and local governments can …

No social enterprise operates in a vacuum. Many interdependent systems, institutions, and networks enable social enterprises to flourish. One crucial group within the social enterprise ecosystem is the beneficiaries and …

Being part of the social enterprise sector can have transformative effects not only on society but also on the individual founder, employee, or volunteer. After hearing the perspectives in the …

What motivates social entrepreneurs? In contrast to traditional business models, social enterprise models require leaders with a distinctive value orientation. Let’s see what social entrepreneurs themselves say about the type …

SMV Wheels, a social enterprise in India, is working to improve the lives of bicycle rickshaw drivers. Pay close attention to the different components of their business model. The next …

In this video, social enterprise consultant Servane Mouazan share her ideas about what social impact means. What is your opinion? Do you think it is important to measure the social …

Traditionally, the divide between a for-profit or nonprofit organisation was clear; for-profit businesses would engage in revenue generation and nonprofits would engage in charitable work to solve social issues and …

The category of social enterprise includes several different types of businesses and organisations. In this step, we provide definitions and examples of these different types. Credit union Definition: Finance co-operative …

Around the world, people use many different terms to describe the social enterprise sector. You have probably heard terms such as social entrepreneurship, social business, social economy and the social …

A new framework that global leaders and policymakers have developed to catalyze solutions to global challenges is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were adopted at the United Nations …

Social enterprises, as organisations that integrate economic and social value, have a strong global presence. In this video, Professor Fergus Lyon from Middlesex University gives his opinion about the differences …

The field of international development seeks to outline and address global challenges and create broad frameworks for thinking about solutions. Historically, a variety of different terms have been used to …

This video shows the solutions that social entrepreneurs have developed to address the problems they encountered in the previous video. In the discussion below, please share: what do you think? …

The global challenges we discussed in the previous step manifest in different ways across diverse local settings. In this video, social entrepreneurs from around the world discuss the diverse problems …

This course will explore the global and local challenges that human society faces today and introduce the diverse world of social enterprise that seeks to address these challenges in innovative …