BSER Assessment

1. These are enterprises that seek to place people who might otherwise find it difficult to enter the mainstream job market, such as those with learning difficulties or mental health problems.

• Community enterprises

• Cooperatives

• Credit Unions

• Social firms

These are organizations owned, controlled, and run by their members.

• Community enterprises

• Credit Unions

• Cooperatives

• Social firms

These are community-based financial institutions that provide savings and loan facilities for their members.

• Community enterprises

• Cooperatives Cooperatives

• Credit Unions

• Social firms

They provide loans and other types of investment to support social enterprises and other small businesses.

• Community enterprises

• Community Development Finance Institutions

• Cooperatives

• Social firms

It is a business model to solve social issues and problems while providing goods and services.

• Corporate social responsibility

• Sustainable development

• Social enterprise

• Crowdsourcing

It is a structure, design, or framework that a business follows to bring value to its customers and clients.

• Corporate social responsibility

• Sustainable development

• Social enterprise

• Social business model

It is a principle of social enterprise by which businesses work for a purpose of helping a cause do it with joy.

• Joy in their work

• Cause-driven

• Investor returns

• Employees are treated fairly

It is a principle of social enterprise by which investors will receive a return on their investment amount only — no dividend and investors must only receive back what they put in.

• Joy in their work

• Cause-driven

• Investor returns

• Employees are treated fairly

It is a business model that sells business support services directly to the entrepreneurs in its target population.

• Entrepreneur Support Model

• Market Intermediary Model

• Market Linkage Model

• Low-Income Client Model

It is a business model that helps their clients by marketing or selling their clients’ products or services for them.

• Employment Model

• Market Intermediary Model

• Entrepreneur Support Model

• Low-Income Client Model