Social Business Global

Social Business Global

Come, let's join forces with a collective consciousness and make a real, sustainable impact.

634

Social Enterprises Reviewed

15,621

People Reached (126 Events)

42

Universities

59

Countries Represented

Source: 2020-2025 Impact and Transparency Report; the number of enterprises reviewed and participating countries comes from current programme records. View the report

Global Dialogue

International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop.

With visionary leaders from 59 countries we produce collective solutions to shared problems. In partnership with Mersin University, Turkiye's first, and the world's 26th, Master's Program in Social Entrepreneurship was opened.

International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop.

Legal Reform

Social Entrepreneurship Law Proposal.

With our 29-article draft bill, we propose that the legal status and audit standards of social entrepreneurship be defined.

Social Entrepreneurship Law Proposal.

Field Training

Revenue Models and Sustainability for NGOs.

A free, certified conference series on building a sustainable, diversified revenue model without depending on a single donation. Supported by the Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society, Ministry of Interior.

Revenue Models and Sustainability for NGOs.

Impact-Focused Employment

An employment protocol that carries volunteering into careers.

Impact-Focused Employment

Academic Programs

A social innovation curriculum at universities.

Academic Programs

hangel Social Impact Inventory

We are drawing Turkiye's map of goodness.

hangel Social Impact Inventory

Entrepreneurship Library

Our goal: 21 entrepreneurship libraries in 15 cities.

Entrepreneurship Library

Our Partnerships

The institutions and organizations we have worked alongside across our workshops, conferences, and projects.

  • Sakarya Üniversitesi
  • Mersin Üniversitesi
  • Hakkari Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
  • Düzce Üniversitesi
  • Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi
  • Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi
  • Maltepe Üniversitesi
  • Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi
  • Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi
  • Pamukkale Üniversitesi
  • Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi
  • İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi
  • Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi
  • İstanbul Atlas Üniversitesi
  • Kafkas Üniversitesi
  • Munzur Üniversitesi
  • Bandırma Onyedi Eylül Üniversitesi
  • Ankara Medipol Üniversitesi
  • Ankara Üniversitesi
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi
  • Yeditepe Üniversitesi
  • Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi
  • Hakkari Valiliği
  • Bilecik Valiliği
  • İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi
  • Eskişehir Büyükşehir Belediyesi
  • İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi
  • İzmir Çiğli Belediyesi
  • İzmir Bayraklı Belediyesi
  • İzmir Bornova Belediyesi
  • İzmir Buca Belediyesi
  • İzmir Karşıyaka Belediyesi
  • İzmir Bergama Belediyesi
  • Manisa Şehzadeler Belediyesi
  • Bursa İnegöl Belediyesi
  • İstanbul Üsküdar Belediyesi
  • Ankara Etimesgut Belediyesi
  • Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi
  • Tekirdağ Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Ağrı Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Karaman Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Erdemli Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Düzce Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Antalya Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • Mersin Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası
  • KOBİA (Azerbaycan)
  • BEBKA
  • İzmir Bornova Gençlik Merkezi
  • GAP İdaresi
  • Etimesgut Kent Konseyi
  • Ankara Kent Konseyi
  • İTO BTM
  • Girişim360
  • Tüzder Üstün Zekâlılar Derneği
  • Gaziantep JCI
  • Bursa JCI
  • Bursa Simbiyoz Aktivite
  • İzmir Pergamon Lions Kulübü
  • TÜGVA İzmir
  • AIESEC İstanbul
  • Azerbaycan Enactus
  • TÜMMİAD
  • AbilityPool
  • Genç Sosyal Hizmet Platformu
  • Güçlü İyilik Platformu
  • Evokulu Derneği
  • e-gönüllü
  • Azerbaycan Gençler Fondu
  • Türkiye Patent Hareketi
  • Impact Hub Istanbul
  • JCI Türkiye
  • TÜMSİAD

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About Social Business Global

Social Business Global (official name: International Social Benefit Association) is a civil society organisation that promotes social entrepreneurship and social innovation from Turkiye to the world. Social Business Global works together with hangel; its events, volunteering and public-sector cooperation run on the hangel platform.

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Some of Social Business Global's work

  • International Social Entrepreneurship Workshops since 2019, each with participants from about 20 countries (the first in Istanbul, July 2019).
  • A 29-article draft Social Entrepreneurship Law.
  • 258 awareness conferences across Turkiye.
  • The Social Enterprise Dataset, built from a detailed review of 634 social enterprises.
  • Turkiye's first master's programme in social entrepreneurship, in cooperation with Mersin University; an "Applied Social Entrepreneurship" course open to all departments at Maltepe University.
  • A youth and volunteering network cooperating with 42 universities.
  • Co-implementation of the Ministry of Interior of Turkiye project conferences on revenue models and sustainability for NGOs.

Figures from the association's pages and its 2020–2025 Impact and Transparency Report.

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