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Social Business Global
2019 - 2023

International Social Entrepreneurship Workshops.

Participation and impact data for the workshop series that began with the first meeting in 2019, continued in Mersin (2020) — covered in the press as "Turkiye's first international academic social entrepreneurship workshop" — and went on in İzmir (2021) and Bursa/Tunceli (2023).

4

Workshops Held

59

Countries Represented

564

Enterprises Reviewed at the Workshops

Workshops

  • July 2019, Istanbul: participants from 20 countries were invited and 936 applications were received.
  • 19 December 2020, online (in partnership with Mersin University): participants from 20 different countries.
  • 17-19 December 2021, İzmir (in partnership with İzmir Metropolitan Municipality): 189 applications from 22 countries, 65 participants; 140 social enterprise cases were documented.
  • 28-30 December 2023, Bursa İnegöl and Tunceli: participants from 20 different countries; a separate session at Munzur University.

Method

  • Participants from different countries presented how similar problems are solved in different cultures through example social enterprises; the examples were reviewed and reported on.
  • 564 social enterprise cases were reviewed at the workshops; the total number of enterprises reviewed by the association is 632 in the 2020-2025 report.

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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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