social-enterprise

Social enterprise – social enterprises are organizations which trade in goods or services and link that trade to a social mission. The need to deliver on both financial, social and environmental performance targets is often referred to as having a triple bottom line. It could be that the profit from the business is used to support related or unrelated social aims or that the business itself accomplishes the social aim through its operation, say through the employment of people from a disadvantaged community including individuals and existing business who have difficulty in securing investment from banks and mainstream lenders.