Social enterprises aim to achieve social objectives through businesses or organizations. They can take different ownership structures including community members, workers, volunteers, beneficiaries, customers, and social investors. Social enterprises can be pure nonprofits or hybrid organizations that balance social and financial goals. While European social enterprises focus more on collective action and incremental change, American social entrepreneurship emphasizes individual action and fast solutions to social issues through entrepreneurial approaches. Ultimately, successful social enterprises gain loyal customers, motivated staff and volunteers, do not issue share dividends, and obtain funding from grants and sales.