Jesuit Centre For Social Entrepreneurship

The Jesuit Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (JCSE) is an initiative of The Cardoner Project, a social enterprise and youth volunteering hub that supports partner organisations around the world, helping excluded groups, predominantly within the Jesuit network. The social impact we are seeking to achieve through the Centre is to improve social inclusion and economic outcomes for disadvantaged and poor communities by developing and supporting social entrepreneurs and enterprises to become investment ready and nancially sustainable. Our vision is that the Centre will become a hub for students, graduates, mentors, and aligned groups to share best practice ideas about social innovation, and to incubate and accelerate businesses for social impact. It will have a distinctively Jesuit and Catholic approach. Central to achieving this vision will be the education and mentoring of disadvantaged young people, especially refugees, in the incubation and acceleration of their own enterprises, by enabling them to become investment ready and financially sustainable. The Centre's Social Impact Model has three pillars that reflect and support The Cardoner Project's overarching vision and mission: - Young Leader Development- Incubator & Accelerator- Social Impact NetworkThe Centre will develop transformative leaders who use their skills to create and support social enterprises to influence and shape a more just and Christ-like world. Through education and training around social innovation and entrepreneurship, the Centre will equip these young people with the skills to incubate and scale their own social enterprises. The Centre will also operate as an incubator and accelerator of social enterprises. It will offer mentoring and capacity building for members of disadvantaged communities, particularly refugees, to ensure their own enterprises are investment ready and nancially sustainable. The Centre will offer support in strategic and business planning, operations, finance and marketing, and will seek to connect them with potential sources of funding for their enterprises. The Centre will also establish a social impact network to connect values-aligned organisations. This network will allow social enterprises to leverage each other's expertise, and to collaborate and share best practice ideas in social innovation and entrepreneurship. Our goal is to formally launch the Jesuit Centre for Social Entrepreneurship by March 2018. The Cardoner Project welcomes discussions with any potential partners about how we can create value for them in mutual alignment with our ethos. To find out more about this exciting initiative, please get in contact with us!
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