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Social Business Global

Full Support for Social Entrepreneurs.

We're with you on the journey from idea to impact.

We connect entrepreneurs building business models that improve the world with investors, academic networks, and legal support.

What we offer

  • Meeting entrepreneurs from different countries at the International Social Entrepreneurship Workshops
  • The Entrepreneurship Library network (target: 21 libraries in 15 cities)
  • Work on a bill proposing a legal status for social enterprises

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International Workshop Entrepreneurship Library 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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