What are Social Enterprises?
Social enterprises are revenue-generating businesses with a twist. Whether operated by a non-profit organization or by a for-profit company, a social enterprise has two goals:
- To achieve social, cultural, community economic or environmental outcomes
- To earn revenue
What sets us apart?
At FREE-Green LLC, our mission is to form businesses that will create jobs and employ the formerly incarcerated, hence our slogan: Re-Entry That Works.
FREE-Green Coachella’s success starts with the establishment of businesses that are ready to employ the formerly incarcerated as they exit prison and inpatient or outpatient reentry programs. We want to encourage society to make room for them in the workforce.
On the surface, many social enterprises look, feel, and even operate like traditional businesses. The unique structure of a social enterprise is at the center of the business, income generation playing an important supporting role.
- Maximize profit to benefit social, cultural, community economic and environmental growth.
- Earn revenue to fund social programs and social justice.
How we benefit as a Social Enterprise
Some of these advantages include:
- Fiscal Responsibility – It reduces the myriad costs of public supports for people facing barriers, by providing a pathway to economic self-sufficiency for those it employs.
- Public Safety – It makes the community which it operates safer by disrupting cycles of poverty, crime, incarceration, chemical dependency and homelessness.
- Economic Opportunity – How we generate revenue. It improves our pool of human capital and creates jobs in communities in need of economic renewal.
- Social Justice – It gives a chance to those most in need.