Did You Know

1
Did You Know?
2
In U.S., 20.9 million women lived below the
federal poverty threshold in 2007
3
The Womens Bean Project in Denver CO employs
women from backgrounds of chronic unemployment
and poverty to manufacture gourmet foods.
4
The Women's Bean Project does not hire women to
make and sell bean products. We make and sell
bean products to hire women.
5
Did You Know?
6
Economically disadvantaged teens are more likely
to be un- or under-employed in the summer job
market
7
Early work experience improves prospects for
employability and real wages in the later teens
and early 20s
8
Work experience in high school also increases the
likelihood of graduation and lowers teen
pregnancy and delinquency
9
Juma Ventures develops and operates businesses
for the purpose of providing job opportunities to
economically disadvantaged teens.
10
Did You Know?
11
One-third to one-half of HIV-positive Americans
are either homeless or at imminent riskof
homelessness
12
Housing Works provides health, housing, legal and
case management services to people with HIV. It
also trains clients to run several upscale retail
businesses that annually return 13 million to
the organization.
13
Did You Know?
14
There are approximately one billion nonliterate
adults (persons 15 years old and above) in the
world today.
15
Better World Books collects and sells books
online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide.
16
The company has converted more than 22 million
donated books into 6 million in funding for
literacy and education and in the process,
diverted more than 12,000 tons of books from
landfills.
17
Did You Know?
18
Each year, more than 600,000 Americans aged 70
and older stop driving and become dependent on
others to meet their transportation needs
19
How will your elderly parents get around if they
become unable to drive themselves?
20
The Independent Transportation Network provides
rides with door-to-door, arm-through-arm service
to thousands of seniors nationwide.
21
Did You Know?
22
There are approximately 8 million blind and
visually impaired persons in the U.S.
23
Benetech operates Bookshare.org, which allows
people with print disabilities to legally
download over 40,000 books and periodicals to be
read as Braille, large print or synthetic
speech.
24
Did You Know?
25
A microenterprise, commonly called mom and pop
business, is a business with 5 or fewer employees
and a seed capital of 35,000 or less
26
There are more than 23 million micro-enterprises,
representing 18 of all private employment and
87 of all businesses in the U.S.
27
Very small firms tend to obtain credit from
non-traditional sources such as owners loans and
personal credit cards rather than traditional
loans
28
Wisconsin Womens Business Initiative Corporation
offers small business loans and also manages a
catering business and bakery - which provides
income to both WWBIC and its clients.
29
Did You Know?
30
136 million tons of building-related waste is
generated in the U.S. annually, nearly 60 of
all non-industrial waste in the U.S.
31
But only 20 to 30 percent of this
building-related waste is estimated to be
recovered for processing and recycling.
32
Materials Matter diverts construction waste and
materials from landfills and sells the products
at discounts through a Home Improvement Outlet to
nonprofits working in housing and community
development.
33
Did You Know?
34
In 2005, 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of
the population of the developing world, are
estimated to live in extreme poverty of 1.25 a
day
35
Fair Trade provides a fair price for producers of
coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea and other goods in
developing countries.
36
TransFair is the only third-party certifier of
Fair Trade products in the United States.
37
In the past six years, TransFair has certified
74.2 million pounds of Fair Trade coffee,
providing coffee farmers in some of the poorest
communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
with over 60 million more than they would have
earned selling their harvests to local
intermediaries.
38
What do all these solutions have in common?
39
They are using business to solve a social problem
40
Social enterprise harnesses the power of the
marketplace to solve critical social or
environmental problems
41
We envision a proliferation of social enterprises
as a primary means of creating a more just and
sustainable world.
42
The Social Enterprise Alliance is the only member
organization in North America to bring together
the diverse field of social enterprise. It
serves as advocate for the field, hub of
information and education, and builder of a
vibrant and growing community of social
enterprises. Join the movement!
43
Visit us at www.se-alliance.org
co-produced by Kevin Hong the Social Enterprise
Alliance