Supporting Organization for Social Enterprises:Intermediate Organization Case

Abstract

　　This paper aims to survey the performance of organizations that support social enterprises and examine how they find their supporters.　Social enterprises work to solve various challenges and social problems, such as issues related to the environment, social well-being, inequality in educational opportunities and disparity in income distributions.

　　Prompt action must be taken to overcome these problems, but the reasons for financial restrictions cannot be satisfactorily resolved by the government.　Hence social enterprises have recently stepped in and are changing the boundaries to cope with various social problems.　These efforts can be regarded as new models of modern nonprofit organizations to accomplish various targets.　Therefore, they need supporters, such as volunteers, contributions, and investments.

　　Many start-up social enterprises struggle to obtain resources such as manpower, contributions and grants.　The success stories of these social enterprises can impact various fields, but they must struggle with tough experiences to obtain business know-how.　Especially infrastructure organizations can powerfully support activities to support other members.

　　We focus on three Non-Profit Organizations;Japan NPO Center, Osaka NPO Center and Community Support Center KOBE.　These centers were established in 1996 after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 and certified as specified nonprofit corporations by the Act on Promotion of Specified Non-profit Activities in 1998.　Their reports show us suggestions for various solutions to social problems.

　　Support organizations can be considered for fund-raising from non-profit organizations such as NPO banks and community banks, and commercial organizations such as crowdfunding, Shinkin Banks, etc.

JEL Classification:D63, H44, M14