Section outline

  • What is Social Enterprise?

    Social Enterprises are businesses that operate to achieve social, environmental, economic, or cultural goals. They often trade goods or services that generate revenue to advance those aims. 

    The How-To: Scaling Social Enterprise Ventures | Entrepreneur

    Case Studies

    The following case studies show some social enterprises that have been setup to help achieve some global sustainable goals and specifically climate change.

    Kiwis on the right side: Case Studies

    Choose three of the case studies on this site to summarise. 

    For each of the chosen businesses:

    • read the article
    • briefly describe what they do
    • identify the global sustainable goal that they address
    • explain how the business works towards achieving this goal.

    Group Task: Brainstorming: Assessment 1

    In groups of 2-3, 

    1. Choose a social, environmental, economic, or cultural goal to try and achieve. Looking at the global sustainable goals may help you with some ideas

    2. Brainstorm some ideas for your own innovative product or social enterprise to achieve this goal.,

    Remember the rules of brainstorming:

    • Generate as many ideas as possible. 
    • Be creative. Defer making judgment on ideas until you have listed a lot of ideas
    • Hitch-Hiking maybe some ideas can be combined with others.