In a social enterprise, partnerships can support both commercial and impact objectives. The partners that the social enterprise is cooperating with can offer their services or/and their responsibilities are to add social value. They can also protect and ensure that social impact is generated. Finally, partners work also for ensuring the income always related to the social impact, in order the enterprise to remain sustainable and continue to offer value to society.
Suitable questions that should be asked in order to field the Key partner block are:
What partnerships are critical to helping us achieve our commercial objectives?
What kind of partners contribute to achieve social impact?
What kind of partners help to increase the social value we are offering?
What kind are the motivation that maintains our partnership?
Which Key Activities do partners perform for the social enterprise?