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Social Enterprises Business Models Social enterprises apply business solutions to social problems. The ultimate goal is to achieve sustainability by enabling nonprofits to support themselves financially in innovative ways instead of relying solely on grants and donations. Since there are no shareholders in a non- profit organization, the profits from the related social enterprise are …

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I Am Going To And I’m Bringing A relaxed circle game This is a guessing game. If there are fewer than ten people in the group, one person thinks of a word – if there are 10 people or more, two people think of a word together, without the rest of the group knowing what …

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The origin of the concept of ‘social enterprise’ and its evolution The increasing acknowledgement of the third sector in Europe, together with the broader interest in non-conventional entrepreneurial dynamics addressing current challenges, led to the emergence of the new concept of ‘social enterprise’. 6 Whereas a dozen years ago this concept was rarely discussed, it …

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Having established the key definitional dimensions of social entrepreneurship, this section will explore alternative notions which differ from social entrepreneurship to a certain extent – though the latter’s boundaries are still contested (see Dey further in this book). Four notions of relevance will be discussed below: social entrepreneurship is not a discrete sector; it is not …

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