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A growing number of entrepreneurs use market-based solutions to solve critical social problems. These entrepreneurs create jobs for local economies, make connections to regional and global markets, and increase access to critical goods and services for underserved communities. However, these entrepreneurs face several barriers preventing them to achieve impact at scale and full financial success.
Given their experience and pioneering initiatives to build the social enterprise sector in CEE, a small group of key stakeholders - EVPA, NESsT, Yunus Social Business Initiative, and the European Commission decided to join efforts and work together to solve these critical issues in the region. The idea was to form and lead a region-wide Task Force of key players that would work together in the next five years to build a social investment movement to foster more of an appropriate capital for social enterprises, while also preparing more and higher impact social enterprises to receive these investments.
Ambitions of the initiative:
Expected outcomes 2017 - 2018:
Working groups
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A. Transactions
Outcome: increase number of investments/pipeline of investment-ready social businesses
Participants:
B. Ecosystem
Outcome: Developed ecosystem for social investment and positioning of CEE in the global context
Participants:
C. Policy
Outcome: Best practices sharing and recommendations for developing conducive policy frameworks for development of social investment space.
This group is in the process of development. For more details please contact Ewa Konczal, EVPA.
D. Communication
Outcome: Increased awareness and understanding of the social investment space in CEE
Participants:
Governance Structure
During the first meeting of the CEE Taskforce, on 27 -28 March 2017 the participants agreed on the Governance Structure of the Taskforce. The Governance of the CEE Taskforce encompasses the following elements:
Resources
Members of CEE Social Investment Taskforce:
Ewa Konczal, EVPA, Poland; Roxana Damaschin-Tecu, NESsT, Romania; Georgia Efremova, European Commission; Michał Radziwiłł, TISE, Polan; Johann Heep; Mirjana Sakic, ERSTE Group Bank - Social Banking, Austria/CEE; Paweł Łukasiak, Academy for Philanthropy Development, Poland; Nicole Erchart, NESsT; Maria Baracsi, IFKA, Hungary; Elitsa Barakova, Bcause, Bulgaria; Jovan Madjovski, CEED Macedonia; Bistra Kumbaroska, Impact HUB Vienna, Austria; Hermes Arriaga, Impact HUB Zagreb, Croatia; Darko Sokovic, Propulsion Fund/Dokukino Foundation, Serbia; Agnieszka Orzechowska, NESsT, Poland; Dario Vins, Mozaik, Bosnia & Herzegovina; Marku Shkelzen, Yunus Social Business, Albania.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
Contact for more info
, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Manager, EVPA
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