Are you a Social Enterprise? Social enterprises are businesses that exist to create social, environmental or cultural change in the world based on a particular problem or challenge that has been identified. They do this by understanding the challenge, using business (trade) to direct revenue and resources towards solving that problem and doing it in an ethical, sustainable, and empathetic way. A social enterprise is a business for good. They trade like any other business but exist specifically to make the world a better place. A social enterprise has: a social mission embedded in the DNA of the business to directly address social, cultural and/or environmental needs; derives a majority of its revenue through trade rather than through grants, donations or gifts; reinvests profit and resources back into their mission and impact model so that public benefit outweighs private benefit.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out at online@qsec.org.au or read more at www.qsec.org.au Question Title * 1. Do you have a clear social, cultural, and/or environmental mission? Yes, Social Mission Yes, Cultural Mission Yes, Environmental Mission Yes, a combination of the above. No Question Title * 2. Can you articulate how your mission aligns with one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Yes, we can specify our SDG alignment. Not really, but we know what they are. I'm not sure what they are. Question Title * 3. How does your business generate revenue? Only selling products or services Primarily selling products with some grants / fundraising Primarily through grants / donations / philanthropy with a only a litte trade Only through grants / donations / philanthropy Other (please specify) Question Title * 4. Do you have a theory of change? Yes, we can send it to you. No but we're working on it. No, but it's on our to-do list I'm not sure what that is but I would like QSEC's support in learning more. Question Title * 5. How do you reinvest your profits and/or resources and efforts? We donate to an external charity We reinvest our resources and efforts back into our social / environmental / cultural mission We don't have an impact model (reinvest profits and/or resources and efforts) yet. We offer pro-bono or low cost services to NFPs or Social Enterprises Other (please specify) Question Title * 6. How do you measure your impact/outcomes? By dollar value By evaluating the attitude, behaviours and/or condition changes we create for our community/beneficiaries We don't measure our impact yet Other (please specify) Question Title * 7. Would you like to know more about becoming a social enterprise? Done
