Ecosystems and scaling for social enterprises

Peter Ramsden Freiss Ltd OECD LEED partnerships meeting Manchester 2015

people in the social enterprise eco-system

Rafael Ziegler GETIDOSNorbert Kunz Social ImpactVictoria Peter MakeSenseRyan Little BMW foundationPhilip von der Wippel projectTogetherFabian Suwanprateep Beyond philanthropy

Which are the key elements of ecosystem?• People – changemakers, social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs

• Finance - government, foundations, impact investors, new forms of finance (bonds, loans, crowdfunding)

• Regulation and markets (definitions, tax regimes, procurement, )

• Spaces – coworking, incubators, • Support and Capacity - courses, mentoring, coaching• Prizes, challenges, recognition

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rate of realisation

2007 % 2008 %

Public w orks 52852 57% 38,652 39% 119%

Housing 10307 11% 24,165 24% 127%

cleaning 11700 13% 18,224 18% 135%

Green spaces 8592 9% 7,055 7% 152%

environment 6928 7% 5,211 5% 246%

Others 2349 3% 6,463 6%

92728 99,770

Number of hours realised

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211

176

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7490

96

322

168

283266

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Ecosystems and flourishing social enterprise• Well-structured ecosystems can lead to rapid growth of social

enterprise• They consist of organisations, infrastructures and relationships• They are multi level – governments, regions, cities and localities play

different roles• Finance is key but as just one part of the ecosystem, we also need to

be able to measure our results• We will only succeed against the great challenges through new

approaches - including through social enterprise