WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?

It is an alternative business model where organizations combine financial sustainability with social, educational, and environmental missions or multiple bottom lines.

An innovative concept, social enterprise provides an alternative means for solving social, educational, and environmental challenges. Social Enterprise is part of a new generation of thinking and can be viewed as an externality of the Internet boom. Just as Internet companies challenged the way we think about the location of work and fair trade questions how we consume, social enterprise enable us to create meaningful change in our communities. Leaders across the public and private sectors are interested in social enterprise and its ability to achieve social, educational, and environmental change.

The "Social Enterprise" concept offers a unique non-traditional approach to stabilize a not-for profit organization and grow new social enterprises with for-profit companies and their communities. It offers:

Non-profits gain:
1. Competing in a new marketplace.
2. Experiencing long term innovative financing joint venture opportunities.
3. Gain long term stability.
4. Creating a new model for corporations to work with non-profits.

Corporations gain social responsible benefits:
1. Majority of Americans consider in purchasing decision i.e. Paul Newman products that sponsor non-profits.
2. Higher profile of a positive image for supporting non-profits.
3. Employees (87%) feel a strong sense of loyalty to their employer versus (67%) with no community participation. (Cone research)
4. They can track how their money is used.

Example
Leveraging a non-profit people's assets, a social enterprise can manufacture a tangible product that can be sold. A drug rehab center has a fabulous cook. They love to make salsa. The non-profit receives help from several corporations in purchasing ingredients to make the salsa, and they help with distribution, marketing, and advertising. The non-profit creates a continuous revenue stream to now feed its programs, and the for-profit helps launch the new enterprise with its expertise along with the non-non-profit to make the new venture a success!

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The VeggieVille Kids™ Mystery of the Junk Food Villains
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This is an exciting joint venture with Dominican Hospital Foundation, SunWriter, a subsidiary of Bizquests, Inc, Safetyville USA, and the Santa Cruz County Board of Education. This collaboration is on the leading edge of addressing the issue of childhood obesity. As we all are becoming aware of the national crisis of childhood obesity many of us are looking for ways to take action in responding to the challenge of changing around this rapidly growing crisis.

Dominican Hospital (member of CHW Hospitals in three states), Safetyville USA, and SunWriter (a subsidiary of Bizquests, Inc) have created an innovative non-traditional approach to reach children at an early age (third-graders) to educate young children and their families about the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables.

We believe that the key to making an impact on changing bad eating habits for children lies in the inherent values presented in the VeggieVilleKids series of books and collectable trading cards. The trading cards serve as an incentive to learn healthy eating, and exercise messages that solve a puzzle for which prizes are earned.