Social Enterprise Exploratory Committee

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UCP’s Strategic Plan has exploration of a social enterprise as part of revenue diversification. Therefore, we are creating an exploratory committee to evaluate the opportunities for the creation of a social enterprise. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset and/or experience with a business start-up, this may be a perfect way for you to give back to the community.

A social enterprise is a business that aims to achieve a particular public or community mission (social, environmental, cultural, or economic), and reinvests the majority of its profits into achieving that mission. Social enterprises span the spectrum of nonprofit to for-profit entities. There are three general social enterprise models:

Opportunity Employment: organizations that employ people who have significant barriers to mainstream employment. (this is likely the direction we would go)

Transformative Products or Services: organizations that create social or environmental impact through innovative products and services.

Donate Back: organizations that contribute a portion of their profits to nonprofits that address basic unmet needs.

Source: https://socialenterprise.us/about/social-enterprise/ For additional resources related to social enterprise: UCP Seguin
Kessler Foundation MaxWork Hope Enterprise Interested in being on the exploratory committee for social enterprise? Email Janeen at janeen.latin@ucpcentralpa.org.