Social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship is about driving social change with business means. Whereas traditional business entrepreneurs use profits as a measure of success, social entrepreneurs measure their success in terms of the social impact they create.
About Be a Change
In honour of its 60 years of activating youth leadership, AIESEC in Finland has decided to start advancing social entrepreneurship.
For people who want to become social entrepreneurs
Within Be a Change program, there is a business concept competition for everybody who wants to become a social entrepreneur.
For others who want to shape the future of social entrepreneurship
By participating Be a Change, volunteering to take part in organizing it or supporting it with a donation, you leave your mark in 1-3 new social enterprises and a multitude of socially relevant business ideas.
For organizations that want to take responsible action by supporting social entrepreneurship
Be a Change event partners are at the edge of the societal trend: for-profit sector becoming more social, non-profit sector becoming more entrepreneurial and a new sector of social entrepreneurship rising between them. Be a Change is also a place for your employees to get exposed to dozens of new ideas and people from different business sectors. By supporting Be a Change with a donation, you support entrepreneurship that makes the world a better place.
For press
Press releases in Finnish and in English.
FAQ about Be a Change
What is it?
Program that helps people start social enterprises. It includes virtual collaboration of 2 months and an event of 2,5 days and features a business concept competition.
See also FAQ about social entrepreneurship
Be a Change vision, mission, values and guiding principles
Mission:
Be a Change aims to change the world through starting successful social enterprises and generating business ideas that have potential to become one. Be a Change is going to be like a factory that produces social change.
