The Book of Goodbiz is dedicated to a growing and diverse community of entrepreneurs and enterprises established with the intention to take on society’s challenges and design sustainable entrepreneurial solutions to tackle them. It is also dedicated to the Voices of Goodbiz and our transnational peers – all those organizations and individuals that are on the mission to re-invent financial and non-financial resources to build better support systems for the pioneers of a better economy.
Goodbiz Community
The book in front of you reflects Europe’s vibrancy and diversity by showcasing the stories of partners and friends that touched the activities of the project Hive for Better Investments and the program Goodbiz from Slovenia and its partners BB Consulting, Donar, Linea Directa, Punkt and coordinator Zavod Viva. The common thread uniting our stories is the ambition to boost the development of a more inclusive and sustainable European market. We all do so in variety of ways – by developing and running social enterprises, building bridges between sectors, promoting the value that social entrepreneurs create and by building support systems for social entrepreneurs and investors. Moreover, we are united in the belief that transnational cooperation brings added value to our individual stories – through internationalization of our markets and exchange of knowledge and experience. And why do we believe that the future belongs to social impact creators? Because we live in rich and exciting times in which, however, we still face a lack of social inclusion and insufficient measures to protect the environment. We believe that the potential to address these challenges lies in people that design innovative solutions combining the power of the ambition to make the world a better place with the power of value creation embedded in entrepreneurship. A huge thanks to all such pioneers presented in this book for co-creating this publication and helping us capture one good moment in time! We invite the readers of this book to join us on this marvelous journey.
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