Opinion
What is Social Procurement?
Taken from: https://www.orbidalgroup.com/tender-tips-orbidal/blogs/what-is-social-procurement/ Governments and contracting authorities have a responsibility to ensure they leverage their buying power to achieve a social value, rather than simply getting the lowest...
Social Enterprise Tender: Irish Prison Services seeks Cafe in Dublin
Aligned with the objectives of the Department of Justice & Equality social enterprise strategy, the Irish Prison Service, published their first ever market testing process specifically seeking expressions of interest from social enterprises to be the independent...
Guest post: Ask&Advise Evening
From our friends in BNest via us in Socent.ie! http://bnest.ie/guest-post-askadvise-evening/ On the 5th December in the BOIWorkbench Limerick, we in the Socent.ie hosted a BNest Ask&Advise night. As ever in Limerick, the audience gathered were positive and...
Ireland’s shameful global social enterprise ranking
Irish Social Enterprise Network calls for an immediate support for Ireland’s social enterprise sector after report ranks Ireland’s legacy at 43rd of 45 of world’s largest economies for social entrepreneurship and social enterprise development. A compelling...
Opinion: Social Enterprise Minister is Ireland’s Missed Opportunity
Lack of a Minister leaves Social Enterprise and Social Economy without accountability With a new government comes opportunities to make a difference. With the largest capital project in Ireland including social benefit clauses, social economy programmes across Europe...
3 Things I Learned at SXSW
SXSW is one of those events can change you. The festival, which started as a music festival which later became a film festival and later still became the interactive festival, is one of the most eclectic festivals in the world. It's art, meets tech, meets music, meets...
We are Updating!
Socent.ie is Changing We set up the Irish Social Enterprise Network to help people get their new ideas off the ground or take their existing organisations to the next level. As part of that we developed a website, but we are drastically updating this as part of our...
What do new social enterprises need?
"There's something refreshing about young social enterprises in Ireland". Guest blogger Danielle Byrne reflects on our recent ISEN event..... I have greatly enjoyed attending the “Story Exchange” open mic events this year at the Irish Social Enterprise Network / Ryan...
Learning from Boston social enterprise
Guest blogger Danielle Byrne writes.... Everything I ever wanted in social enterprise was in Anne Wunderli’s talk at the Irish Social Enterprise Network last Tuesday. Anne works for Pine Street Inn, a large homelessness charity in Boston. They provide all sorts of...
#ISEC14 Success – First Thoughts
Social Enterprise is alive in Ireland There can be no doubt that social enterprise is alive and well in Ireland. Thanks to the hundreds of people who came out and those that took part in our online discussions on #ISEC14. It has been ab overwhelmingly positive...