Social Enterprise Of The Year

​Open to organizations operating in the for profit or not for profit sector, this award will go to the outstanding organization with at least half of all profits to a social or environmental cause and can demonstrate the following: ­

• ­ Sustainable growth and financial performance ­
• Innovation and creativity ­
• Impact and improvement ­
• Customer and community engagement ­
• Leadership and management ­
• An ethical business model ­
• Staff engagement and development

Entry Statement (Part 2 of 2)

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Please produce and email a document that completes your entry to info@makechangeawards.com.  The file limit is 10 MB and your document should be no more  than 1,000 words.  The failure to submit your Entry Statement (Part 2 of 2) will deem your application as incomplete.  Keep the relevant questions in the same order as the core factors for judging

1) How do you define a social enterprise? (Failure to answer this question may disqualify you from consideration)

• Please share your organizational values, how they have been defined and applied, and how they align within a social enterprise business structure?

 
2) Sustainable Growth and Financial Performance:

• Please provide an explanation of how your organization defines growth in both the short and long term (i.e. revenue/profit/surplus, staff, membership, impact, expansion, etc.).
• Describe a key milestone achieved over the last 18 months, and any barriers or obstacles that were overcome to achieve success.
• Please provide an outline of plans in place to sustain your ongoing financial success and what you believe will drive further improvement.

 
3) Innovation and Creativity

• Please describe and provide evidence of significant innovation by your organization either within your field/industry or in how you approach your mission and impact goals.

 
4) Impact and Improvement

• What metrics does your organization use to measure impact?
• Please briefly describe using specific examples or data the impact you have had over the last year. Please describe how that has changed from your impact in previous years and your plans to improve or increase impact over the next year.

 
5) Customer and Community Engagement

• Please describe your target customers and the community you serve.
• Please give a specific example of your customer and community engagement efforts.

 
6) Leadership and management

• How has your management structure or leadership philosophy supported or driven improvement in performance regarding your key impact objectives?

 
7) An ethical business model

• Please describe your social enterprise business model and how it connects with your impact goals.

 
8) Staff engagement and development

• Please explain any processes or programs that have been put in place to engage your staff in successfully delivering the strategies or vision, or that has enabled them to increase impact or improve efficiency.