Social Enterprise
Enhance your mission by selling a product or service
Enhance your mission by selling a product or service
This coaching stream helps organizations explore ideas for how they can further their social impact goals and generate revenue through an enterprise model. The focus is on helping established social-purpose organizations identify business opportunities, assess viability, and plan for launch.
Social Enterprise 101
A social enterprise:
Social enterprises are often launched for one or more of the following three reasons:
The Innoweave self-assessment tool is designed to help you determine your organization's readiness and whether your initiative or program model is well suited for Social Enterprise.
This assessment has 5 questions.
Please respond to each of the questions to the best of your ability by choosing the option that most accurately reflects your organizational context.
Start NowFor groups interested in Innoweave’s Social Enterprise stream, we encourage you to review our Social Enterprise Info Session:
Innoweave offers coaching support to organizations that are well positioned to implement a Social Enterprise approach. You can connect with an Innoweave coach to help you explore and implement your initiative. Then apply to Innoweave for funds to support that coaching engagement.
Your organization is eligible to apply for Innoweave coaching support if you have submitted an Expression of Interest and it has been approved.
Apply NowInnoweave focuses on supporting social enterprise ideas being launched by established nonprofits and charities. In rare cases, we may support stand-alone social enterprises at the start-up phase.
No, Innoweave does not provide investments or loans to projects. Innoweave support is strictly for coaching.
Innoweave is happy to support models that generate positive impact across almost all domains in Canada. We do not, however, support projects where the primary beneficiaries are outside of Canada (e.g., international development projects).