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Example Social Enterprises

  • Simprints - Creates fingerprint technology to help distribute aid in developing countries where people often lack proof of legal identity.
  • Buy Social Canada - Promotes social procurement by bringing socially driven purchasers and social enterprise suppliers together.
  • EMBERS Staffing Solutions - Creates economic and employment opportunities for people living on low incomes.
  • Commongood Linens - Employs people facing poverty through a sustainable commercial laundry service.
  • Twenty One Toys - Teaches empathy, failure, and other key 21st century skills using toys and playful workshops.
  • Impact Boom - Focuses on the support and development of social enterprise globally.
  • Zero Waste Event Productions - Help festivals and events manage waste and reduce pollution. Article
  • MOZAIK - Lists several social enterprises that they have provided funding to in 2021.
  • Fairphone - Creates smartphones that are easily repairable and have give years of support.
  • Beetroot - Socially concious software development.
  • Humanitix - Event ticketing software that is structured as non-profit and donates much money to charity.
  • Urban Alchemy - Helps mananage homeless encampments while employing formerly incarcerated people.
  • Caremart - Malaysian grocery stores that offers those in need a 30% discount on essential items.
  • Lendology - works with local governments to give low cost loans to families for home imporvement in the UK.
  • Social Copy and Print - Suplies of copier and print solutions to the third sector.
  • Familiarisation Videos - Making the Unfamiliar More Familiar to reduce anxiety & help people overcome barriers when going to new places.
  • Automotive Free Clinic - Repairs cars. Describes themselves as mutual-aid but has similar ideas as social enterprise. Article
  • Massive Bookshop - Anti-profit online bookstore that stocks hard to get books and sends all proceeds to mutual-aid and community-building projects. Article
  • First Book - Provides free books to low-income families, 225 million so far. Article
  • Women's Work Lab - Helping unemployed mums and those on benefits back into workplace in the area. Article
  • New Generation Nutrition - Developing the insect sector in the Netherlands and African countries.
  • Cambium - Transforming trees into sustainable materials and the inefficiencies in the lumber industry. Article
  • Inspro Science Limited - Integrate insect-based solutions for better resource utilization.
  • Spectrum Designs Foundation - Specializing in screen printing and embroidery, creates custom apparel and promotional products while providing employment and training opportunities for neurodiverse individuals. Active on IG
  • JAPJAP - Decentralized waste processing using Black Soldier Flies. Article