Enterprise

Social Firms are businesses that combine a market orientation and a social mission.

• At least 50% of the firm’s turnover is earned through sales of goods and/or services.
• The firm has an appropriate legal status. It must not be governed or driven by individual profit.
• The firm is trading and follows business processes, such as having a business plan in place.
• The firm has a constitution or written guiding principles that reflect its employment objective concerning disadvantaged people.
• The firm has a management structure that supports trading as the firm’s primary purpose.

Learn more:
Social Firm | Employment | Empowerment.