Social Entrepreneurship in 2020: Crisismanagement & creative solutions
The gap between people who participate successfully in society and vulnerable individuals watching from the sidelines is widening in the Netherlands. Social enterprises give the people on the sidelines a chance at a job – and with it a chance at a better life. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, these enterprises became vulnerable themselves. So we’ve been supporting them through these tough times, in collaboration with other funds.
How we work in the Netherlands
Our mission is to help create more jobs for people who have trouble finding paid employment. And this is how we do it:
Results Social Entrepreneurship
€ 4.1 million
in impact financing we provided in the form of loans and grants.
112 social enterprises
were given access to funding to start and/or scale up their business to increase the employment rate of vulnerable people.
More opportunities
offered by these social enterprises to people with a distance to the labor market. Thanks to access to work and guidance, they have more opportunities to participate in society.
Our impact stories
Great examples of what we and our partners have achieved in 2020.
