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Social Business Global

Impact Shaped by Knowledge.

Strengthening the civil society literature.

Through university collaborations, we prepare social entrepreneurship curricula and provide data and resource support for academic research.

What we offer

  • Data set and source support for theses and articles (2 doctoral and 3 master's theses supported)
  • Curriculum cooperation (the 'Applied Social Entrepreneurship' course at Maltepe University)
  • Speaking and moderating at international workshops
  • Article-by-article academic feedback on the bill

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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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