Marketplaces
Platforms and mechanisms that connect social enterprises with customers to facilitate trade. Customers may be retail, business-to-business, public sector procurement, or outcome purchasers. Also, largescale buyers who can create and shape markets through their procurement strategies.
Actors in the marketplaces domain include:
Social enterprises
A social enterprise is a business that puts people and planet first. They trade like any other business, but exist specifically to make the world a better place. Social enterprises can adopt a range of legal structures, identities, and play multiple roles, across different domains, in the ecosystem.
Market connectors
Brokers that link social enterprises with customers to facilitate and grow trade. They may use a variety of platforms and means of intermediation, and specialise in different customer segments including retail, business-to-business, public sector procurement, or outcome purchasers.
Federal Government
National-level government agencies and departments that determine social enterprise policy and funding.
State Governments
State and Territory-level government bodies that oversee regional social enterprise policies, development strategies, and regulations.
Local Governments
City or local-level authorities that have a specific influence on community-based social enterprises and localised initiatives.
Corporations
Large companies that engage with social enterprises through partnerships, procurement, investment, and corporate social responsibility programs.
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