{"id":6217,"date":"2017-10-19T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/social-enterprise-and-nonprofit-clinic\/about-our-clinic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:30:20","slug":"about-our-clinic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/social-enterprise-and-nonprofit-clinic\/about-our-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Is Social Enterprise?<\/h2>\n<p>A &#8220;Social Enterprise&#8221; offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Internal Positive Impact<\/strong><\/em> in the way the business or organization operates, treats employees, engages in production, selects materials and other factors of production.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>External Positive Impact<\/strong><\/em> in what the business or organization contributes to the environment, the communities in which it operates, and\/or humanity.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Legal &amp; Ethical Accountability<\/strong><\/em> in the business or organization&#8217;s incorporation documents, mission statements, stated values, and governance policies and practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social Enterprises generally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply entrepreneurial approaches to addressing social, environmental, and human justice issues.<\/li>\n<li>Have a primary purpose <em>beyond<\/em> making money for individual owners and investors.<\/li>\n<li>Set as a primary goal improvement of the environment, humanity, and\/or community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For examples of social enterprise, read these legal case studies developed by Georgetown Law students on behalf of Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization that supports social entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgetown.box.com\/s\/7l9zq33qewrugatx6cuqqu6wl7cwomqr\">SunFunder Case Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgetown.box.com\/s\/7u034pktwyi0uv9klp50scfw90uksk4t\">Yansa Case Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is Social Enterprise? A &#8220;Social Enterprise&#8221; offers: Internal Positive Impact in the way the business or organization operates, treats employees, engages in production, selects materials and other factors of production. External Positive Impact in what the business or organization contributes to the environment, the communities in which it operates, and\/or humanity. Legal &amp; Ethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":5826,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31855,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6217\/revisions\/31855"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}