{"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":"2025-12-01T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:19:16","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 [&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,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-6217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_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":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6217\/revisions"}],"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}]}}