Proposals that came up during the Working Group “Social Impact: What should be measure and reported, and how?” that was held during the Conference “Unlocking the potential of the social economy for EU growth” organised by the Italian Presidency of the European Union Council, November 17 & 18, 2014. The themes had been identified via a …
Key Highlights and Insights from «Think Social. Act Business. Summit», December 2013. The summit was a combination of talks, panels and capacity building workshops. It aimed to build a bridge between policy makers, social enterprises/ social entrepreneurs and academia, focusing less on the definition of social enterprise and more on the tools that enable a market …
As I said to the group, to me, the distinguishing characteristic of a ’social entrepreneur’ is someone that can recognize when a part of society is ’stuck’ and provide new ways to get it ‘unstuck’– ways that ultimately pass society’s litmus’ test of TRUST (that this is a sustainable solution to a problem, that it …