What is a social enterprise?

Social enterprises are mission driven organizations which trade in goods or services for a social and environmental purpose. Their aim to accomplish targets that are social and environmental as well as financial is often referred to as having a triple bottom line.

Social enterprises are profit-making businesses set up to tackle a social or environmental need. They often use blended value business models that combine a revenue-generating business with a social-value-generating structure or component. Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to have social objectives, but social enterprises are distinctive because their social or environmental purpose is central to what they do.

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Qi is a social enterprise that inspires people to live and act more progressively by asking this question. How would nature do it?”

Through inspiring speakers, people who are talking the talk and walking the walk, Qi showcases progressive solutions that can spark accountability in people’s lives.

Why make decisions on a daily basis that increase one’s carbon footprint when with a little thought and considerate action, we can all make less impact upon the planet? That is precisely what Qi is all about, common sense solutions for various aspects of your everyday life.

The Qi website will see weekly additions of content containing online footage of inspiring speakers and design, a forum for debate that is both entertaining and invigorating.

Qi will hold a number of events over the course of of the year leading up to Qi GLOBAL 2010. This will be a massive three day & four night culmination of events in October with Global thought leaders speaking, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings and a concert. Qi events are designed to make the visitor feel the void between the way that they are living their life and the easy steps to a less carbon heavy lifestyle.

Low carbon products are an integral part of the future. Consumers need to open their eyes to the provenance of their shopping. Qi is on the continual search for products that are made from recycled or sustainable materials where those who made them are employed fairly with all the social benefits that they deserve.

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17Feb2010