The Social Enterprise Monitor 2019 provides insight into the development of social enterprises in the Netherlands. It's based on a large survey among social enterprises in The Netherlands. You can read the key results of the Social Enterprise Monitor 2019 below.<\/p>\n
Characteristics social enterprises <\/strong><\/p>\n Entrepreneurship – finance, growth and customers<\/strong><\/p>\n \nMake, increase and measure impact<\/strong><\/p>\n \nThe government – from obstacle to partner<\/strong><\/p>\n The Social Enterprise Monitor 2019 provides insight into the development of social enterprises in the Netherlands. It's based on a large survey among social enterprises in The Netherlands. You can read the key results of the Social Enterprise Monitor 2019 below. Characteristics social enterprises > Social enterprises pursue different social missions. Increasing the participation of…<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4585,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_publicatie-intern--extern":0,"footnotes":""},"publicatie-intern--extern":[5],"class_list":["post-9301","publicatie","type-publicatie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publicatie-intern--extern-intern"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"publicatie-intern--extern":[{"value":5,"label":"Intern"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/101571657531_Monitor_cover_2019.png",687,492,false],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publicatie"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10350,"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie\/9301\/revisions\/10350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publicatie-intern--extern","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social-enterprise.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicatie-intern--extern?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}><\/strong><\/span> Social enterprises pursue different social missions. Increasing the participation of vulnerable groups in the labour market is the most mentioned mission (48%).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Substantial variation in revenue – 35% has an annual turnover of more than one million euros, 24% has a turnover of 100.000 euros per year.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> ‘Collaborating with the municipality’ and ‘Classic entrepreneurial issues’ are the most important obstacles for growth.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Most social entrepreneurs start their enterprise because of their feeling of involvement with society.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Social enterprises are SME’s, relatively young and are mostly private companies.
\n <\/h6>\n> <\/strong><\/span> Most of the social enterprises are profitable (42%) and\/or break-even (22%) – mature social enterprises are more often profitable.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Social enterprises contribute annually to the growth the labour market (increased between 2018 and 2019 with an average of 14%).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Social enterprises are successful in attracting capital (88% success rate) – most enterprises searched for grow capital (62%) and work capital (42%).<\/h6>\n
> <\/strong><\/span> Multinationals are interested in the products and service of social enterprises: 29% of social enterprises have multinationals as their customers.<\/h6>\n
> <\/strong><\/span> More than half of social enterprises is searching for an international market or has this ambition (32%, respectively 24%), with a focus on countries that are close to the Netherlands (Belgium, Germany, France, and Scandinavia).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> About three quarters of the social enterprises increase their impact by influencing others. They realise that they need other organisations to achieve their impact. 70% of the enterprises that do not do that yet, do have that ambition.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Collaboration with multinationals is seen as promising and positive: 44% of the social enterprises have a relationship with multinationals. Among the enterprises that do not have a collaboration yet, the ambition level is high. <\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> A large part of the social enterprises has executed an impact measurement in 2018 or intends to do this in 2019 (74%).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Social entrepreneurs are intrinsically motivated to measure their impact: 56% measures their impact, while none of their stakeholders asks for it.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> 54% indicates that stakeholders require an impact measurement, specifically financiers and governments.<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> 71% works together with the municipality. These social enterprises have a high appreciation for this collaboration (47% see this relationship as “good” or “very good”).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Although only few social enterprises are involved in government procurement processes (27%), there is a lot of ambition (48% of the enterprises that are not involved yet, would like to be involved).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> There is a high ambition among the enterprises that do not have a collaboration with the municipality yet (61% would like such a collaboration).<\/h6>\n
><\/strong><\/span> Growing attention from municipalities for social entrepreneurship leads to purchasing of goods and services from social enterprises: 39% of the social enterprises have municipalities as their customer.<\/h6>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"