By Cruz Lena
The best way for a company to prosper is by helping the world to tackle global challenges. A social enterprise is when you use business strategies to progress your organization’s social or environmental impact. A philanthropic foundations’ main focus is creating organizations, philanthropies, and companies to help transform the lives of people. They identify core challenges facing a nation and craft innovative, high-impact, and creative development solutions. Their main objective is to achieve UN sustainable development goals and ensure everyone gets access to needed services.
Impact-oriented organizations.
Most people expect companies to make a positive impact on the community. To strengthen the relationship with their customers, most companies take part in tackling global challenges. To increase a company’s appeal to job seekers and consumers, it needs to demonstrate a positive social impact on society. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of companies embracing social impact as a core value. They make strategic investments to maximize profits. It helps members of a community prosper by providing resources and opportunities that enable them to achieve their full potential. Menomadin group is an example of such an organization and they have cross-sector partnerships by collaborating with NGOs, the business sector, and local and national governments. These social-impact organizations have prioritized to do work that attempts to solve a global or local community need or challenges. Some of the problems that these organizations are trying to tackle include:
- Education for girls and women.
- Environmental conservation.
- Access to clean water and sanitation.
- Affordable housing.
- Food insecurity.
Who makes impact investments?
Global and individual investors are attracted to invest in the social impact organization. The investors may decide to invest their money in developed economies or emerging markets. Some of the investors include:
- Private foundations.
- Fund managers.
- Religious institutions.
- Individual investors.
- Insurance companies.
- Development financial institutions.
Social enterprises want to provide equal opportunities hence empowering the vulnerable and underprivileged communities. Developing countries lack access to essential services that are common in other regions. These social-impact foundations consist of various subsidiaries that craft financial solutions in the following fields:
- Agro-industry.
- Clean and renewable energy.
- Water treatment.
- Education and professional training.
- Communication and information technology.
SDG alignment.
It is a collection of global objectives adopted by the United Nations to build a peaceful world, eradicate poverty and protect the planet. Most of these philanthropic foundations have a common quest of achieving the United Nation’s sustainable development goals. These goals include:
- Quality education.
- No poverty.
- Good health and well-being.
- Gender equality.
- Zero hunger.
- Affordable and clean energy.
- Industry, infrastructure, and innovations.
- Clean water and sanitation.
- Decent work and economic growth.
- Reduced inequality.
- Climate action.
- Peace and justice strong institutions.
- Sustainable communities and cities.
- Responsible production and consumption.
- Life on land.
- Life below water.
- Partnerships to achieve the goal.
Conclusion.
Social impact foundations help to empower and develop nations via business engagements that deliver high impact. They help to transform the lives of underprivileged people by creating philanthropies, companies, and organizations. They aim to maximize profits by making strategic investments. Most companies are embracing social impact as one of their core values hence attracting job seekers and consumers. The main aim of most of these foundations is to achieve the United Nation’s sustainable development goals making the world a better place
