Social Enterprise Models

There are four main models of social enterprise. Below you’ll find a table that compares the key differences between each.

Model	Description	Business Model	Typical Impact Area	Example Ventures	Example Indicators
Work and training	Provide training and employment opportunities to marginalised groups.	Nurturing workplaces Social Firms	Disability Disengaged Youth Unemployed Ex-offenders	Streat, AUS ARCO, NZ, NZ Te Whangai, NZ	# Employees # Trainees # Conversions
Equitable product or service	Provide subsidised products or services to disadvantaged or marginalised groups to address market failure.	One for one Commercial rates to mainstream customers to subsidise beneficiaries Government Service providers Payment for outcomes	Poverty Health Education	CareEd4, NZ Thought wired, NZ Take My Hands, NZ Mr 4 Eyes, NZ Patu, NZ	# products provided to under –represented groups Level of income to subsidise operations and impact
Income generators	Generate profit to fund the social programmes of affiliated or parent charities.	Robin Hood	Any charitable purpose	Yellow Belle, NZ YGAP Restaurant, AUS Age UK enterprises, UK	$ for impact
Product/Service Impact	Solve (or enable the solution of) a social or environmental problem through the market. The scale of business operations drives impact	Good Assets Regenerative businesses Impact support businesses Waste to value Fair share of profit	Community facilities Community energy resilience Local food systems Fair Trade	Skypath, NZ Blueskin, NZ Wilding and Co., NZ Ora, NZ Curative, NZ Wellbeing Game, NZ	# Products sold # Waste diverted $ into local economy