“Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish.They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry"

quoted by: Bill Drayton, CEO, chair and founder of Ashoka

Social Entrepreneurship is applying innovative, sustainable, and practical approaches for the society’s benefits especially for the poor. Its main focus is to have a big social improvement.

Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation, a sixty percent virtual organization, conceptualized in 2003 with the intentions to be more innovative and to reach out the gap between government sectors, not for profit, and businesses. For the CSEF, they can bridge the gap by being a major for in Social Entrepreneurship and by providing blended value for innovation.

JL Carvalho, the founder of CSEF says that their organization exist in order to educate, recognize, and fund existing and emerging Canadian and Global Social Entrepreneurs. CSEF invests more on Canadian social enterprises that produces revenues focusing on social inventors, children and youth, women at risk, aborginal youth ventures, environment, health, civic engagement, economic development, technology social enterprises/intellectual property based social ventures/social software (Example: efficient technology to maximize impact of social sector organizations).