12. Non-profits have focused primarily on addressing their communities’ social and/or environmental issues
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15. Like any business, a social enterprise needs to sell products or services to paying customers, in a financially-sustainable manner.
16. Any legal form of organization can be or operate a social enterprise.
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18. Social enterprises apply entrepreneurial approaches to address social and/or environmental issues and create positive community change.
19. An enterprise, owned at least in part by a non-profit organization, that uses entrepreneurial methods to accomplish social and/or environmental goals and providing its profits to its owner(s) for use in continuing their core missions.
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21. Contracting with third parties to provide products & services to others who need them, but who are unable to pay