Social enterprises are businesses that aim to achieve social objectives such as providing needed services and products to communities, creating employment, and protecting the environment. Some advantages of social enterprises include financial sustainability, contributing to social missions beyond profit, positive perceptions from staff and donors, easy marketing due to addressing social problems, and customized services. Common social enterprise frameworks involve cross-subsidization between customer groups, fee-for-service models, employment and skills training, acting as a market intermediary, connecting beneficiaries to new markets, delivering separate products and services, and cooperatives owned and used by members.