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Social Business Global
2020 - 2025

2020-2025 Impact and Transparency Report.

Social Business Global's five-year impact and transparency report: "We started with an idea 5 years ago — today we are a movement of impact."

15,621

People Reached Across 126 Events

₺2.48 million

Donations Transferred to the Model Village Project (Hatay)

632

Social Enterprises Reviewed (2020-2025)

Global impact

  • Four international social entrepreneurship workshops were held with 421 international participants.
  • 632 social enterprises from 54 countries were reviewed and reported on; this work has become a data set.

Academic partnerships

  • In partnership with Mersin University, Turkiye's first Master's Program in Social Entrepreneurship was opened.
  • The curriculum of the 'Applied Social Entrepreneurship' course was prepared at Maltepe University; the course was opened to all departments.
  • Sources and data were provided for 2 doctoral and 3 master's theses and 2 academic articles.
  • Joint awareness work was carried out with 42 universities.

Awareness and community engagement

  • 15,621 people were reached directly across 126 events and conferences.
  • Mentoring and field support were provided with 12 academics, 21 university students and volunteers from 13 different fields.

Social innovation and policy

  • The 29-article draft Social Entrepreneurship Bill was prepared and shared with the relevant ministries.
  • A protocol on employment based on volunteering and social contribution, together with an implementation guide, was prepared.

Disaster solidarity

  • After the 6 February earthquakes, 120 tons of fuel aid was provided; 70 tons were delivered to AHBAP.
  • We took part as a stakeholder in the Hatay Model Village Project: 10 tiny houses, 1 nursery, 1 workshop and 1 library.
  • 60 caravan volunteers served in the field; 2 trucks of medicine reached people in need.

Financial transparency

  • ₺2 million raised from the exhibition at the Kethüda Hamam in Ortaköy, Istanbul, and a ₺480,000 donation were transferred to the Model Village Project (₺2.48 million in total).
  • Other expenses are covered through the contributions of volunteers.

Download the full report

The full text of the report: mission and vision, five years in figures, the five-year journey, projects and press coverage (PDF, 11 pages).

The report is in Turkish.

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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