ASE creates training and mentoring programs for sustainable, mission-based businesses, ASE plays the roll of convener and catalyst, connecting the organizations and people needed to create, grow and celebrate social enterprises.
The Social Enterprise Academy is a multi-month program that helps not-for-profit organizations diversify revenue sources and become more sustainable. An Academy consists of a series of workshops, a venture competition and mentoring during which the organizations develop and launch a ‘social enterprise’, or a business that generates revenue as well as provides a social good.
Check out the highlights video from a recent Social Enterprise Showcase.
Watch social entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to our panel of judges.
ASE UPDATES
• A big congratulations to Living Advantage, the winner of the OC Social Enterprise Venture Competition which took place as part of a full day symposium on Entrepreneurship on May 10, 2012.
• Sign-ups are available for the 'Social Enterprise for Nonprofits Mini Series' hosted by OneOC on July 12 & 26, 2012. Register by following the link at the top of the page.
• ASE acknowledges Wells Fargo Bank for their continued support of our Orange County programming and the UCLA Economics Department for sponsoring a new Academy in Los Angeles.
• ASE congratulates various not-for-profits in Monterey, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles Counties for presenting outstanding business plans at recent Social Enterprise Showcases.
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