Interviews

Something that often makes social enterprises special is the fact that they often combine social with environmental impact – doing good on several levels. Swedish social enterprise Rag2Rug is one of those examples as it targets textile waste, unemployment issues as well as traditional craftsmanship. We’ve met up with Founder Gunilla Hjelm to explore her…

Many with great ideas of solving our local and global challenges aren’t able to take them further because they simply don’t know how to. We hear about talent, innovation and development being wasted due to lack of support or resources, but we also hear about those that are trying to change this. Susanna Nissar, one…

15 years ago, SE Forum was created as a forum and a network for professionals and academics who had a shared interest: social entrepreneurship. It was created at a time when this was a new concept in Sweden that not many knew much about and it gave those interested an outlet and a network for…

Creating a positive social impact is what sets a social enterprise apart from competitors and traditional businesses. Doing it well, though, is tricky, and something that many social innovators struggle with.We caught up with Oren Ipp – a member of our Impact Team and coach who specialises in supporting entrepreneurs to measure the social impact…

We are thrilled to welcome our new Executive Director Anna Kayal onboard! She joined SE Forum on 5 August and has been intensely busy since but we’ve managed to grab her for a chat about her background, entrepreneurship and what she’s looking forward to this autumn! Hi Anna, and welcome! Thank you! Can you tell…

We often highlight the importance of communications as a means for a social enterprise to tell its story of social impact, to create a stronger purpose, and ultimately, to grow. As part of our Care of Business Impact accelerator we’ve had the pleasure of working with PR agency Number 10 for our entrepreneurs to explore…

Knowing your audience, listening to them and ensuring your company is solving their pains is key for any entrepreneur. But doing it right isn’t always easy and we see it as an important part of what we do at SE Forum, to help entrepreneurs get it right. To provide the best help, we use coaches…

He’s a social entrepreneur with a passion for education. A passion for education that everyone can access and that improves children’s lives. He took part in one of our Social Business Bootcamps in Nairobi in 2016, and we had the pleasure of meeting up with him as he recently visited Stockholm. Meet Wilhelm Caspar Oddo.…

As we’re kicking off the 2019 GATHER Fellowship alongside our partner Seeds of Peace, we’ve caught up with one of last year’s Fellows to hear more about his experience of the Fellowship and what he’s up to now. Meet 2018 Fellow Yo’av, the activist and programmer who set up affordable solar energy solutions for rural…

Poverty and hardship is common amongst a huge part of Nigeria’s population of almost 200 million people. Another widespread issue is domestic violence with statistics showing that a third of Nigerian women have experienced physical violence by a partner. One of them was Olutosin Oladosu Adebowale, but she decided to change her life around and…