Purpose Statement

The Harvard College Social Enterprise Club seeks to promote the concept of social enterprise through panels, dinners, internships and a social enterprise business plan competition. Social enterprise is a field that applies the efficiency and effectiveness of business practices and economic principles in order to improve the service, outreach, and sustainability of social organizations. Social enterprises can range from microfinance banks that give credit to the desperately poor, to non-profit consulting groups that counsel major non-profit organizations, to socially responsible businesses. A new, exciting, and growing field, social enterprise may well be the future of social service, change, and responsibility and we as undergraduates see it as our role to get out the word while educating ourselves about social enterprise.