How social enterprises offer big businesses pathways to sustainable innovations

Corporations can advance stakeholder metrics by joining the Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship. Crowdsource Innovation By partnering with social entrepreneurs, corporations can deliver measurable progress to help protect and regenerate environmental ecosystems, develop and invest in communities, promote value chain resilience and advance strategic business objectives. Social enterprises already partner with business but there is much room for broadening the scope within value chains. The Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship and its 100 plus members are surfacing partnership opportunities between social entrepreneurs and corporations and building the business case for collaboration. Today, there are many examples of social enterprises, cooperatives and innovative, entrepreneurial non-profits that have long created social and environmental value and provided pioneering examples of purpose-driven ways of organizing economic activity. As such, they are already improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people and changing whole industries . Partnering with these potent change actors could allow businesses to trial new approaches that help them navigate the challenges of the year(s) ahead while simultaneously achieving business objectives. And as businesses find themselves operating in a challenging economic environment, they should prioritize such engagements with urgency to help build resilience for future market disruptions. From rising inflation, […]

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