Furniture Bank, a charity and social enterprise on a mission to ensure all Canadians have the dignity of a furnished home, was founded in 1998. In the 18 years since, it has grown from serving a few hundred people each year to being on track to create homes for over...
SEE Change is continuously impressed with the brave, impassioned men and women who go out on their own in pursuit of social and environmental change. And we try our best to empower them, the only way we truly can – by helping them tell their story. We asked one...
I have a confession – I love dirt. This stems from growing up on a potato farm; I can close my eyes and bring myself back to my childhood where my father would come home from work and give me a big hug, smelling like nothing other than rich, wonderful dirt. Apart from...
Social entrepreneurship is often hailed for its ability to hijack the system, so to speak; a social enterprise gives us a new approach to our way of life and the chance to reform it. Yet, its uncharted nature can prove its greatest difficulty. This conundrum faced...
A social enterprise based in Uganda, Malaika Honey is taking beekeeping to a whole new level. Since June 2006, they’ve been focused on training marginalized farmers on how to be proficient beekeepers and providing them with the necessary equipment and tools to...
“Vat Vrikshya” in Sanskrit means Banyan Tree. The national tree of India, it’s considered holy, representing a shelter to smaller creatures. To social entrepreneur Vikash Das, it represents inclusive growth, a goal he is working towards in the eastern...
