Corporate Ready: How Corporations and Social Enterprises Do Business Together to Drive Impact

Sourcing from social enterprises offers corporations an opportunity to deliver on their impact goals and contribute to a more sustainable and equitable world. But what does it take for social enterprises to be “corporate-ready,” and what impact do these business partnerships have?

This report, developed under the auspices of the World Economic Forum COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs and in partnership with IKEA Social Entrepreneurship, answers these questions and reveals the large untapped opportunity for corporations and social enterprises to do business together, with 100 examples of corporate-ready social enterprises.

A companion report, The Social Procurement Manual, published by Yunus Social Business (YSB), provides case studies and practical tools for corporations that want to integrate social enterprises into corporate value chains.

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This report was developed in partnership between Acumen and IKEA Foundation

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