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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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