Bringing Together Business and Social Change: Not for the Faint of Heart
In this context, HireUp has illuminated the possibilities and challenges that go along with combining private and public approaches to create innovative solutions to social problems. Perhaps what’s most interesting is that most of the assumptions we made a year ago about the capacity of community partners, priorities of youth, legal structure, and ability to engage the private sector have proven incorrect. We’ve also had the benefit of seeing what it takes to establish a social enterprise with a national footprint and what we need to do to succeed. Here’s a closer look at what we’ve learned: