This 2 page brief highlights lessons learned and impacts from the microfranchise approach that Ethiopia piloted in the USAID-funded Feed...
Social Enterprise
What Is a Social Enterprise?
Social enterprises are ventures that use business models to advance a primarily social mission.
We Help Create Lasting Market-Based Solutions to Poverty.
By focusing on self-sustaining business models with high social and economic impact, our social enterprise ventures can become important agents of change in communities with underdeveloped markets.
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The “Avon Ladies” of Bangladesh
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CARE Enterprises
In 2004, CARE piloted a project to address the problem of highly informal rural marketing and distribution system of Bangladesh, which deprives the poor’s access to many important products, information and income generating opportunities.
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You can help women around the world access tools and resources they need to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
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This 2 page brief highlights learning from the USAID-funded GRAD program that works to graduate families out of poverty.
This 4 page brief highlights the Krishi Utsho approach--using social enterprises to sustainably solve the problem farmers have in...
How scenario modeling can be used to create a successful inclusive business plan.
The aim of this document is to provide an introduction to the potential contribution that Social Enterprise (SE) can make to CARE’s...
The brand Living Blue stands for high quality, hand-made products, made by artisans in Bangladesh, based on optimum technical recall,...
CARE Enterprises creates lasting market-based solutions to poverty.
CARE Enterprises bridges the supply/demand gap that exists between formal markets and many of the world's poorest communities.
From micro‐finance programs to innovative last‐mile distribution projects, CARE has learned over the years how to harness the power of...
Where We Work
CARE works in 84 countries around the world to support nearly 1,000 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian-aid projects.