There are many awards that recognize and reward social enterprises. They provide appropriate exposure, support, sometimes financial assistance, knowledge or coaching.
Santander UK has awarded over 170 social enterprises across the UK with their Santander Social Enterprise Development Award (SEDA) providing over £4 million in funding and support. The Schwab Foundation has made awards to 260 enterprises since 1998 giving them access to usually inaccessible networks and in consequence helping them to find resources needed to grow. Since its foundation in Budapest in 1997, NESsT has provided financial and business mentoring support to more than 1500 social enterprises in over 45 countries. The UK Social Enterprise Award will be given for the 16th time in November this year meaning that an additional 50 new social enterprises will be recognized as worthy models.
New entities are appearing in Asia, such as The Social Innovation Award Asia developed by Social Ventures Hong Kong. It supports established ventures in that region such as Ashoka Foundation or Acumen Fund or Echoing Green that offer fellowship programmes to the most promising social enterprises.
Every year the worldwide pool of good practices and examples grows and inspires other social enterprises and their leaders. The impact of such good practices is increasing constantly and the stories of the success of new social enterprises provide fresh insight into people’s experience with tackling poverty, violence and environment degradation.
The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship http://www.schwabfound.org/
TerraCycle (www.terracycle.com) was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, a social entrepreneur from Hungary whose family emigrated as political refugees to the Netherlands and then Toronto in Canada. Szaky studied in Princeton University and TerraCycle was founded in the USA. The company mobilizes people to collect previously unrecyclable waste and incentivizes corporations to sponsor the recycling of the new waste streams. Companies like Nestle, Kraft Foods, L’Oreal and PepsiCo take the responsibility and pay „brigades“ of citizens for collecting such items as potato chip bags, cigarette butts, cell phones, writing instruments, coffee capsules, and cosmetic packaging and then for the recycling process. TerraCycle operates in 22 countries, including United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium. By 2013, 32 million consumers had collected 2.5 billion units of waste and earned over 5 million USD for the schools and non-profits that organized the „brigades“.
TerraCycle received The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013 from The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. It is a not – for – profit, independent organization that supports social entrepreneurship and highlights the most significant social entrepreneurs. Every Year The Shwab Foundation selects around twenty of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs from hundreds of aplicants. The Foundation is under the legal supervision of the Swiss Federal Government.
The Social Enterprise Awards
Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) www.socialenterprise.org.uk Divine Chocolate Limited is probablz one of just a few Fairtrade chocolate companies which are 45% owned by cocoa farmers. United in a Kuapa Kokoo cooperative they are on a mission to empower themselves, increasing female participation in all of Kuapa's activities, and developing environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa.
In the early 90s Ghana experienced the process of liberalization of the cocoa market. Farmers started to trade their own cocoa trying to manage the selling process more efficiently than the government cocoa agents had done.
Divine Chocolate Ltd was created in 1998 in Ghana and it allowed farmers to aim at the mass market for the first time. It is a private company limited by shares with very unique governance structure. Divine belongs jointly to Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading, finance institute Oikocredit, international NGO Christian Aid, the leading UK charity Comic Relief and Kuapa Kokoo farmers’co-operative. In 2014 Divine Chocolate Limited was awarded The UK Social Enterprise Awards by The Social Enterprise UK in partnership with social enterprise organizations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It’s a national organization for social enterprises and it was founded in 2002. It aims to represent the members and help grow the social enterprise movement. The 16th edition of The Social Enterprise Awards 2014 will be officially announced at an awards ceremony on 26 November 2014.
There are also many other awards in the UK that matter for and beyond the sector, locally or on a national scale. To give just a few examples:
The Social Enterprise Competition (http://umi3.com/social-enterprise/awards ) organized by The University of Manchester. One of the winners in 2012 was an innovative social enterprise called UN-Convention (http://unconventionhub.org). The company is a UK based global music network and development agency that looks for alternative models to shape the music industry in times of internet piracy and sharing economy.
The Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers programme by Deloitte,often addresses social enterprises. At the moment there are 12 members of the of Pioneers programme and one of them is Co-wheels from Newcastle (www.co-wheels.org.uk). It‘s a car club operator that provides a network of community car clubs across the UK. Its 4500 members access cars on a ‘pay by the hour’ basis without any of the cost and hassle of car ownership.
The programme provides innovative bussineses with a package of support to help them grow to scale and become investment-ready. In total Deloitte invests over £1m a year to improve the skills and capabilities of Pioneers to support social business.
The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards (SEDA)
Santander UK http://www.santanderseda.co.uk
SEDA was created in 2011 to support social enterprises in local communities all over the UK both economically and substantively. So far it has awarded over 170 social businesses with over £4 million.
One of them is Edinburgh Community Food, a social enterprise providing low-cost healthy eating options and nutrition advice to young people and elderly residents. The enterprise has won £50,000 to pay for a coldroom and chiller van and now is able to expand into the corporate sector.
NESsT- Citi Social Enterprise Competition http://www.nesst.org/mission/
Spolek Pratel (www.pratelefm.org ) is a social enterprise from Frydek-Mistek in the Czech Republic. It owns a theatre, sports facilities and other equipment that help local communities such as sports teams, theater groups, families and companies. The enterprise organizes activities for the local community and for young, unemployed people in particular.
It 2009 Spolek Pratel won the NESsT and Citi Social Enterprise Competition. At that moment the company was breaking even and seeking to increase the budget surplus.
They got a 7500 US$ found and business consultancy from the NESsT and that helped the company grow. Up until 2010 they achieved their aim to attract more custormers and volunteers, they created 8 new sheltered employment places and 16% of the budget came from self-generated sources. (http://www.nesst.org/es/files/2011/08/2011-Czech-Republic-Spolek-Pratel-IB.pdf).
NESsT is a social enterprise catalyst and incubator. They support early-stage enterprises in emerging markets with investments, capacity support, and strategic business mentoring. The NESsT Portfolio currently operates in 11 countries across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. The NESsT-CITI Social Enterprise Competition is a part of NESsT mission to develop social enterprises in Central Europe. It is made possible thanks to the support of the Citi Foundation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
The Asia Social Innovation Award Social Ventures Hong Kong
http://www.socialinnovationaward.asia
It is useful to take a look at the Asia Social Innovation Award as a point of comparison with the other projects outlined here, even though it is a relatively young and not widely recognized award. Nevertheless it is the first Asia – wide annual competition related to social economy. The concept of the award is interesting because of its very pragmatic approach. Companies that want to take a part in the competition are obliged to submit their solutions to some social issues common in Asian cities, such as an aging population, poverty and environmental sustainability.
Behind the organization of this call for solutions there are a number of various organizations, but the most important one is Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk). It is a social enterprise that promotes the model through practising venture philanthropy in supporting social innovation projects. SVhk is also going to promote social entrepreneurship by providing training, consultancy and different events. Happy Grannies ((http://www.happygrannies.org.hk) was the winner of 2008 SVhk Social Innovation Awards. The company tries to tackle the problems of an aging society and more than 100 thousand elderly people living alone in Hong Kong. It is estimated that 30 % of them suffer from depression. The company offers sponsorship packages and care programmes. Another Asian award offered in the social economy sector is Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge, an inter-collegiate social ventures business competition in Hong Kong (http://hksec.hk/).
It is impossible to describe all the competitions and awards aiming at social economy. Among noteworthy examples are the following: In Poland, the Foundation for Social and Economic Initiatives has been organizing the Competition for Best Social Enterprise of the Year (http://konkurs-es.pl/) for the last 3 years. The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs who have demonstrated impact on solving some of the world’s most urgent problems like deforestation, education and economic opportunity, effective development, water and sanitation or peace and human security (http://www.skollfoundation.org/about/skoll-awards/). The European Network of Foundations for Social Economy (PEFONDES) launched two editions (2011 and 2013) of its European Prize "For youth employment in the Social Economy". Its main task is to encourage innovative solutions at a Euro-Mediterranean-wide level aimed at combating the problem of youth unemployment. As a result, during the first edition of the competition new funding amounting to 8 000 euro had been delivered to a Belgian cooperative project PLOTform. It is an online tool that offers an innovative, fun, direct and transparent way of fundraising (http://plotform.eu/).
Paulina Wajszczak
Opublikowano: http://socialeconomy.pl/node/203
Santander UK has awarded over 170 social enterprises across the UK with their Santander Social Enterprise Development Award (SEDA) providing over £4 million in funding and support. The Schwab Foundation has made awards to 260 enterprises since 1998 giving them access to usually inaccessible networks and in consequence helping them to find resources needed to grow. Since its foundation in Budapest in 1997, NESsT has provided financial and business mentoring support to more than 1500 social enterprises in over 45 countries. The UK Social Enterprise Award will be given for the 16th time in November this year meaning that an additional 50 new social enterprises will be recognized as worthy models.
New entities are appearing in Asia, such as The Social Innovation Award Asia developed by Social Ventures Hong Kong. It supports established ventures in that region such as Ashoka Foundation or Acumen Fund or Echoing Green that offer fellowship programmes to the most promising social enterprises.
Every year the worldwide pool of good practices and examples grows and inspires other social enterprises and their leaders. The impact of such good practices is increasing constantly and the stories of the success of new social enterprises provide fresh insight into people’s experience with tackling poverty, violence and environment degradation.
The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship http://www.schwabfound.org/
TerraCycle (www.terracycle.com) was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, a social entrepreneur from Hungary whose family emigrated as political refugees to the Netherlands and then Toronto in Canada. Szaky studied in Princeton University and TerraCycle was founded in the USA. The company mobilizes people to collect previously unrecyclable waste and incentivizes corporations to sponsor the recycling of the new waste streams. Companies like Nestle, Kraft Foods, L’Oreal and PepsiCo take the responsibility and pay „brigades“ of citizens for collecting such items as potato chip bags, cigarette butts, cell phones, writing instruments, coffee capsules, and cosmetic packaging and then for the recycling process. TerraCycle operates in 22 countries, including United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium. By 2013, 32 million consumers had collected 2.5 billion units of waste and earned over 5 million USD for the schools and non-profits that organized the „brigades“.
TerraCycle received The Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013 from The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. It is a not – for – profit, independent organization that supports social entrepreneurship and highlights the most significant social entrepreneurs. Every Year The Shwab Foundation selects around twenty of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs from hundreds of aplicants. The Foundation is under the legal supervision of the Swiss Federal Government.
The Social Enterprise Awards
Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) www.socialenterprise.org.uk Divine Chocolate Limited is probablz one of just a few Fairtrade chocolate companies which are 45% owned by cocoa farmers. United in a Kuapa Kokoo cooperative they are on a mission to empower themselves, increasing female participation in all of Kuapa's activities, and developing environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa.
In the early 90s Ghana experienced the process of liberalization of the cocoa market. Farmers started to trade their own cocoa trying to manage the selling process more efficiently than the government cocoa agents had done.
Divine Chocolate Ltd was created in 1998 in Ghana and it allowed farmers to aim at the mass market for the first time. It is a private company limited by shares with very unique governance structure. Divine belongs jointly to Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading, finance institute Oikocredit, international NGO Christian Aid, the leading UK charity Comic Relief and Kuapa Kokoo farmers’co-operative. In 2014 Divine Chocolate Limited was awarded The UK Social Enterprise Awards by The Social Enterprise UK in partnership with social enterprise organizations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It’s a national organization for social enterprises and it was founded in 2002. It aims to represent the members and help grow the social enterprise movement. The 16th edition of The Social Enterprise Awards 2014 will be officially announced at an awards ceremony on 26 November 2014.
There are also many other awards in the UK that matter for and beyond the sector, locally or on a national scale. To give just a few examples:
The Social Enterprise Competition (http://umi3.com/social-enterprise/awards ) organized by The University of Manchester. One of the winners in 2012 was an innovative social enterprise called UN-Convention (http://unconventionhub.org). The company is a UK based global music network and development agency that looks for alternative models to shape the music industry in times of internet piracy and sharing economy.
The Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers programme by Deloitte,often addresses social enterprises. At the moment there are 12 members of the of Pioneers programme and one of them is Co-wheels from Newcastle (www.co-wheels.org.uk). It‘s a car club operator that provides a network of community car clubs across the UK. Its 4500 members access cars on a ‘pay by the hour’ basis without any of the cost and hassle of car ownership.
The programme provides innovative bussineses with a package of support to help them grow to scale and become investment-ready. In total Deloitte invests over £1m a year to improve the skills and capabilities of Pioneers to support social business.
The Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards (SEDA)
Santander UK http://www.santanderseda.co.uk
SEDA was created in 2011 to support social enterprises in local communities all over the UK both economically and substantively. So far it has awarded over 170 social businesses with over £4 million.
One of them is Edinburgh Community Food, a social enterprise providing low-cost healthy eating options and nutrition advice to young people and elderly residents. The enterprise has won £50,000 to pay for a coldroom and chiller van and now is able to expand into the corporate sector.
NESsT- Citi Social Enterprise Competition http://www.nesst.org/mission/
Spolek Pratel (www.pratelefm.org ) is a social enterprise from Frydek-Mistek in the Czech Republic. It owns a theatre, sports facilities and other equipment that help local communities such as sports teams, theater groups, families and companies. The enterprise organizes activities for the local community and for young, unemployed people in particular.
It 2009 Spolek Pratel won the NESsT and Citi Social Enterprise Competition. At that moment the company was breaking even and seeking to increase the budget surplus.
They got a 7500 US$ found and business consultancy from the NESsT and that helped the company grow. Up until 2010 they achieved their aim to attract more custormers and volunteers, they created 8 new sheltered employment places and 16% of the budget came from self-generated sources. (http://www.nesst.org/es/files/2011/08/2011-Czech-Republic-Spolek-Pratel-IB.pdf).
NESsT is a social enterprise catalyst and incubator. They support early-stage enterprises in emerging markets with investments, capacity support, and strategic business mentoring. The NESsT Portfolio currently operates in 11 countries across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. The NESsT-CITI Social Enterprise Competition is a part of NESsT mission to develop social enterprises in Central Europe. It is made possible thanks to the support of the Citi Foundation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
The Asia Social Innovation Award Social Ventures Hong Kong
http://www.socialinnovationaward.asia
It is useful to take a look at the Asia Social Innovation Award as a point of comparison with the other projects outlined here, even though it is a relatively young and not widely recognized award. Nevertheless it is the first Asia – wide annual competition related to social economy. The concept of the award is interesting because of its very pragmatic approach. Companies that want to take a part in the competition are obliged to submit their solutions to some social issues common in Asian cities, such as an aging population, poverty and environmental sustainability.
Behind the organization of this call for solutions there are a number of various organizations, but the most important one is Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk). It is a social enterprise that promotes the model through practising venture philanthropy in supporting social innovation projects. SVhk is also going to promote social entrepreneurship by providing training, consultancy and different events. Happy Grannies ((http://www.happygrannies.org.hk) was the winner of 2008 SVhk Social Innovation Awards. The company tries to tackle the problems of an aging society and more than 100 thousand elderly people living alone in Hong Kong. It is estimated that 30 % of them suffer from depression. The company offers sponsorship packages and care programmes. Another Asian award offered in the social economy sector is Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge, an inter-collegiate social ventures business competition in Hong Kong (http://hksec.hk/).
It is impossible to describe all the competitions and awards aiming at social economy. Among noteworthy examples are the following: In Poland, the Foundation for Social and Economic Initiatives has been organizing the Competition for Best Social Enterprise of the Year (http://konkurs-es.pl/) for the last 3 years. The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs who have demonstrated impact on solving some of the world’s most urgent problems like deforestation, education and economic opportunity, effective development, water and sanitation or peace and human security (http://www.skollfoundation.org/about/skoll-awards/). The European Network of Foundations for Social Economy (PEFONDES) launched two editions (2011 and 2013) of its European Prize "For youth employment in the Social Economy". Its main task is to encourage innovative solutions at a Euro-Mediterranean-wide level aimed at combating the problem of youth unemployment. As a result, during the first edition of the competition new funding amounting to 8 000 euro had been delivered to a Belgian cooperative project PLOTform. It is an online tool that offers an innovative, fun, direct and transparent way of fundraising (http://plotform.eu/).
Paulina Wajszczak
Opublikowano: http://socialeconomy.pl/node/203
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