Social enterprises are businesses operated by non-profits with the dual purpose of generating income by selling a product or service in the marketplace and creating a social, environmental or cultural value.Social enterprise is different from traditional chaity in many ways.
Social enterprise is a kind of origanization that pays more attention on changing the social situation.Neverthless, traditional charity may only make donations to help those people who needs life supplys to support their life. Social enterprise can help people improve their life in a significant way. Such that social enterprise may offer jobs for jobless people and also teach them techniques.
Here is an example of social enterprise called ” Save On Meats” we talked in the class. “Save On Meats” employs people with barries, feeds people, also operate investment in the community and food incubator.
It can be seen from the meun that the price is really low. “Save On Meats” really helps many people. Having the butcher shop as part of the building helps keep the costs down on the restaurant side so you can have a filling home cooked meal and it won’t break the bank and also lets the neighborhood residents get benefit of being able to get quality affordable meat and baked goods on a limited budget.
Links:
http://seansadventuresinflavortown.com/2011/07/20/save-on-meats-diner-pigs-can-fly/