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Funding growth of social businesses [Investing for Impact: How social entrepreneurship is redefining the meaning of return]
Kimakowitz, Ernst von
Kimakowitz, Ernst von
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Ernst von Kimakowitz: The overarching goal of social enterprise growth is to increase the impact it has. This also goes for its impact on a systemic level where scaling a social enterprise can stimulate industry-wide transformation. It is much easier to understand how focusing on social impact generation can go hand in hand with financial sustainability if a larger organization demonstrates this and provides a replicable model. Julia Balandina: Growth is often driven by the desire to improve more people’s lives and to become financially self-sustaining as an enterprise. Apart from serving more people, scale allows a business to be more cost-efficient, thus reducing prices and/or generating healthier margins. This enhanced value proposition (social and financial) makes scalable social enterprises more attractive for investors and donors.
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2012-01
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