Making a Difference through Social Enterprise

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 Table of Contents

Introduction..........................................................................................................................1

Skills and Characteristics of a Social Entrepreneur.............................................................1

Skills of Social Entrepreneur...........................................................................................1

Characteristics of Social Entrepreneur............................................................................2

Key Features of Social Enterprise.......................................................................................2

Discussing How Locavore Meets the Criteria of Social Enterprise....................................4

Identifying the Current and Future Policy of Locavore and its Impact on Social
Entrepreneurship..................................................................................................................5

Summary..............................................................................................................................7

References............................................................................................................................7

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Introduction

Social enterprise refers as a business that involves in tackles the social and environmental
problems. This sector also creates jobs and earn profits like general enterprises but rather
than handle the profits to the owner it reinvests it to support their social mission. Unlike a
charity, the enterprise generate money by selling goods and services (Bansal et al., 2019).
Social entrepreneurship means a process by which entrepreneurs develop businesses and
solutions for funds to address specific social issues. The report aims to demonstrate the
concept of social enterprise and the key features and skills of social entrepreneurs.

Skills and Characteristics of a Social Entrepreneur

Skills of Social Entrepreneur

Leadership

Identifying a social problem and take necessary actions to solve the issue in the primary
skill of social entrepreneurs. The social issues are identified should be exclude or
marginalize a portion of humanity (Gupta et al., (2020). So, instead of complaining
towards an action, they take leads and actions to find out alternatives.

Optimism

The social entrepreneurs have a vision for change in the society and have the confidence
to gain their aims when even other people have doubt on them. The self-efficiency power
of social entrepreneur is strong and have the belief to change their situation.

Grit

The grit is the combination of passion, perseverance and hard work. This skill drives
them to push forward, learn in every single day and make effective growth in business
(Alkire et al., 2020). They not only find a solution of problems but have the desire to
make a positive change in the society.

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Characteristics of Social Entrepreneur

Enterprise Orientation

The entrepreneurs are involved directly in manufacturing goods and services and
distributed them to earn income and operate the business operations effectively. The
entrepreneurs also conduct viable trading to gain profit.

Social Aims

The main motive of social entrepreneurs is not to earn profit but to provide benefits to the
society. They have visions to create job opportunities, provide trainings and provisions to
the local peoples. The ethical value of social entrepreneurs is to build the capability of
locals and concentrate on the members (Saebi et al., 2019). They also consider to impact
positively to environment, economy and society to ensure the wellbeing of wider
community.

Social Ownership

The governance and ownership structure of this organization created based on the
participation of trustees and stakeholder groups. It is an autonomous organization. The
earning profits are distributed to the stakeholders or to reinvest for the betterment of the
society.

Key Features of Social Enterprise

Specific and Clear Social Goal

The social enterprises are truly operating by prioritizing the social mission over earning
money. The social mission must be clearly defined in the beginning of the build. The
companies can be generally structured as non-profit but if it structured as for-profit then
the company must be considering that the social mission is not changed (Bacq et al.,
2020). If the social enterprises are changed on the desire of stakeholders, then it is not
truly a social enterprise.

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Income Generated Primarily through Business Activities

Unlike the traditional non-profit organizations like trustees that are depend on donations,
the social enterprises earn money through conducting business activities. The major part
of the income comes from sales of goods and services. The mission of this enterprises is
to earn enough profits to run the business operations smoothly.

The Goods and Services has Market Demand

The traditional and social enterprises both are ensured their success through market
demand. With having strong social aim, the quality of the products and services not
bother that much to the consumers (Gallarza et al., 2021). But, to generate efficient
amount, the organizations need to consider the wants of people and serve them in their
desired way.

It Reinvest its Majority of Profits

The social enterprise has a profit structure and earn profits mainly through selling goods
and services. Unlike other general organizations, it needs to reinvest a large portion of the
profits into the organization. A little portion of profit are distributed to the stakeholders
and owners of the company and most of the profits used to support the social goal.

Data Drives Decision-Making

The success of social enterprise is not measured by profit but measured by how bog the
company impacted on the chosen social goal. The company has a strong monitoring and
evaluating system to gain data (Tavares et al., 2019). Through the data, the companies
decide what to replace and what to introduce in the workplace.

Discussing How Locavore Meets the Criteria of Social Enterprise

Locavore is a social enterprise company that involves in creating a sustainable local food
system for the betterment of the local economy, environment and communities. It was the
overall winner of social enterprise of the year. It is a Glasgow organization and involved

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in delivering boxes with veg and runs the supermarkets at zero-waste way. The company
is now delivering its vegboxes to 1800 customers in the daily bases (Leer, 2022). The
company is growing its own vegetables and employing 100 peoples. In the pandemic
situation of Covid-19, the company retained its all employees and delivers emergency
foods services to the needed peoples. Throughout the processes of the company passion
and commitment are shown strongly. The company has made a commitment to its overall
staff team to find innovative ways to invest money in meaningful work. The primary
social aim of the company is to build sustainable network of food and serve the whole
community. The company grows its own vegetables and run local, organic and zero waste
supermarkets. To ensure more job opportunities for the locals the company recently also
opened two branches.

So, Locavore is a social enterprise as it has similarities in the activities. The ways of how
it meets the criteria of social enterprise are discussing below.

Enterprise Orientation

Locavore is involved directly in manufacturing goods and services and distributed them
to earn income and operate the business operations effectively. The governance and
ownership structure of this organization created based on the participation of trustees and
stakeholder groups. The company has made a commitment to its overall staff team to find
innovative ways to invest money in meaningful work (Oncel et al., 2021). They have
visions to create job opportunities, provide trainings and provisions to the local peoples.
They also consider to impact positively to environment, economy and society to ensure
the wellbeing of wider community.

Social Aim

The social enterprises are truly operating by prioritizing the social mission over earning
money. The social mission must be clearly defined in the beginning of the build.
Locavore is a social enterprise company that involves in creating a sustainable local food
system for the betterment of the local economy, environment and communities. The
company has made a commitment to its overall staff team to find innovative ways to

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invest money in meaningful work (Wallace, 2020). In the pandemic situation of Covid-
19, the company retained its all employees and delivers emergency foods services to the
needed peoples.

Profit Gained through Business Activities

Unlike the traditional non-profit organizations like trustees that are depend on donations,
Locavore earn money through conducting business activities. The major part of the
income comes from sales of vegboxes to the consumers in a zero wasting way. The
mission of this enterprises is to earn enough profits to run the business operations
smoothly and also support the social benefits in an innovative way.

Market Demand of the Products

The traditional and social enterprises both are ensured their success through market
demand. With having strong social aim, the quality of the products and services not
bother that much to the consumers. Locavore is a Glasgow organization and involved in
delivering boxes with veg and runs the supermarkets at zero-waste way (Bansal et al.,
2019). The company is now delivering its vegboxes to 1800 customers in the daily bases.
As the vegetables of the company growing in an organic way so the demands of these
products are growing day by day. Now the people are conscious about their health more
than ever and this perception increase the demands of vegetables in an enormous way.

Identifying the Current and Future Policy of Locavore and its

Impact on Social Entrepreneurship

Locavore is a social enterprise focused on developing a sustainable local food system to

benefit the local economy, environment, and communities. It was named the overall
winner of the year's social enterprise. It is a Glasgow-based organization that delivers
vegetable boxes and operates supermarkets in a zero-waste manner. The company is now
daily delivering its vegboxes to 1800 customers. The company employs 100 people and
grows its own vegetables. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the company retained all of its
employees and provided emergency food services to those in need. Passion and

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commitment are evident throughout the company's processes (Gu[ta et al., 2020). The
company has made a commitment to its entire workforce to find new ways to invest
money in meaningful work. The company's primary social goal is to build a sustainable
food network and serve the entire community. The company grows its own vegetables
and operates supermarkets that are local, organic, and waste-free. In order to provide
more job opportunities for locals, the company recently opened two branches.

So the current and future policy of the company can impact the social entrepreneurship
positively. They can learn many effective things and can also motivated to conduct
business activities to achieve social aim. Social entrepreneurship is the process by which
entrepreneurs develop businesses and solutions for funds to address specific social issues
(Alkire et al., 2020). They are not only limited to find an effective solution for any social
issues but also has the commitment to change the whole scenario and provide social
benefits effectively.

The entrepreneurship can learn leadership skill to identify a social issue and take effective
actions to solve and make an effective change in the society. Instead of complaining
about the situation the social entrepreneurship needed to take lead and find alternatives
for the betterment of the situation. The entrepreneurship can also learn the optimism skill
to have a vision for change in the society and have the confidence to gain their aims when
even other people have doubt on them. The self-efficiency power of social entrepreneur is
strong and have the belief to change their situation (Saebi et al., 2019). The company also
motivate the entrepreneurship to be grit to push forward and learn new things in very
time through the company. Then They not only find a solution of problems but have the
desire to make a positive change in the society. So, it impacted the social
entrepreneurship positively.

Summary

The report aimed to demonstrate the concept of social enterprise and the key features and
skills of social entrepreneurs. The skills and characteristics of social entrepreneurs are
discussed in this report briefly. Though the discussion it is found that Identifying a social

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problem and take necessary actions to solve the issue in the primary skill of social
entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs are limited to find an alternative solution to address a
problem but to change the whole perspective of the society positively. The social
entrepreneurs have a vision for change in the society and have the confidence to gain
their aims when even other people have doubt on them. The key features of social
enterprise are also demonstrated in this report briefly. Through the discussion it is found
that the social enterprises are truly operating by prioritizing the social mission over
earning money. The social mission must be clearly defined in the beginning of the build.
A little portion of profit are distributed to the stakeholders and owners of the company
and most of the profits used to support the social goal. The features and characteristics of
Locavore also discussed in this report to identify its impact on the society.

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