Social Enterprise Chicago

mission statement: social enterprise chicago acts as a convener, collaborator, and catalyst to empower for-profit, nonprofit and hybrid ventures deploying earned-revenue strategies to create positive social, economic, and environmental change. vision statement: harnessing the power of enterprise to foster positive social, economic, and environmental change. --------------------- social enterprise chicago believes that social ventures can play a productive role in advancing positive social, economic, and environmental change by: * deploying strategies that seek to maximize social, economic, and environmental benefit in the way they conduct business; * harnessing growing consumer consciousness about and preferences for businesses that act fairly, humanely, and sustainably; * creating ethical buying options for consumers that reflect their values; * promoting corporate practices and policies that are accountable to all stakeholders; and, expanding the ethical use of, and access to, tec