Awesome Social Enterprise
📗Resources to dive into the world of social enterprises 🌼
A social enterprise is an organization that is primarily focused on social impact and is at least partially self-funded.
Rant on why I made this
When I was at Eckerd College I repeatedly bumped into the concept of social enterprises. First, in a course called _Technology, Society, and The Environment_, then through meeting the CTO of a social enterprise, and finally by taking a course called _Social Entrepreneurship_. Each step along the way I fell more in love with the concept of social enterprises. However, I never felt like there was an easy way to connect to the world of social enterprises. Eventually, I set a [Google Alert](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en) for weekly digests of anything related to "social entrepreneurs." That worked okay but I still felt like I was missing out on something. Fast-forward a few years and I find myself heavily involved in a nonprofit called [hackNY](https://hackny.org/), working at The New York Times, and having a stronger urge than ever to learn about social enterprises. As such, I've started compiling this list of resources to make it easy for people to connect with the world of social enterprises. See the FAQs at the bottom for some common questions.Contents
- What to Read
- Podcasts 🎧
- Courses 🎓
- Fellowships
- Institutions 🏫
- Tools 🔨
- What to Watch
- Communities 🤝
- People 🧑
- Social Enterprise Examples
- Miscellaneous
- FAQs ❓
What to Read
Wikipedia Links 🔗
Wikipedia is a great place to explore and find related topics.
- Social enterprise
- Social entrepreneurship
- List of social entrepreneurs
- Category:Social enterprises
- Category:Social entrepreneurs
- Category:Social entrepreneurship
News 📰
Finding Articles
- Pioneers Post - The Social Enterprise Magazine.
- Impact Boom - Social impact blog and podcast.
- Harvard Business Review - Articles tagged "social enterprise" are infrequent but high quality.
- Stanford Social Innovation Review - Great publication with many articles tagged social enterprise.
- The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Content about the foundation's activities and opportunities.
- Medium - Content from all around about social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.
- Galileo Impact Stories | YouTube | Kickstarter | Website
- A small but growing organization dedicated to covering impact investing. Content is often Russia oriented and not always directly about social enterprises but much of the content is relative. Here is a video summarizing their work in 2019.
- Journal of Social Entrepreneurship - The academic journal for the topic.
- The Straits Times - Singapore based newspaper with articles about social enterprise.
Articles
- State of Social Entrepreneurship 2020 - Overview of SE in 2020 by Echoing Green.
- Echoing Green 2020 Fellows
- 90+ Inspiring Books For Impact-Driven Doers and Entrepreneurs
Papers 📃
- (1998) The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship" by J. Gregory Dees
- A short history of social entrepreneurship (and why the definition isn't agreed upon).
- (2004) The Legitimacy of Social Enterprise Raymond Dart
- A pragmatic discussion on why social enterprises, in relation to nonprofits, exist.
- (2008) Evolution of the social enterprise industry by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurs