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Our activities

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1642669939795{padding-bottom: 2% !important;}”]Social Business represents a clear and sustainable alternative to the crisis of the dominant economic model.
Social Business fosters societies’ wellbeing starting from the real needs of people, trying to solve the problems of the communities but taking also into account the economic sustainability, typical
of traditional enterprises.

Our Centre provides activities and services addressed to every individual or organization who wants to start a
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Strategic support

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Centre helps individuals and organizations interested in becoming Social Business entrepreneurs and supports them in the development of new products and services.
Through the analysis of specific social needs of each context and community and the study of the features of reference markets, the Centre supports the designing of Social Business solutions.[/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-2″ color_override=”#ef8519″ icon_family=”none” text=”YSBCUF EXPERIENCE WITH LEROY MERLIN ITALIA” url=”https://sbflorence.org/en/la-casa-ideale-il-concorso-per-le-organizzazioni-di-non-profit-indetto-da-leroy-merlin-italia-e-lo-ysbcuf/” margin_top=”25″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/4″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_icon icon_family=”iconsmind” icon_style=”default” icon_color=”Extra-Color-1″ icon_padding=”10px” icon_iconsmind=”iconsmind-Magnifi-Glass22″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”3/4″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1642670023685{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]

Research Activities

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The international debate on Social Business is quite large and still evolving. Besides Muhammad Yunus model, other social entrepreneurship models exist. The Yunus Social Business Centre University of Florence team is constantly committed in research activities, aimed at identifying the most efficient methods, tools and practices in this sector.[/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-2″ color_override=”#ef8519″ icon_family=”none” text=”OUR WORK” url=”http://sbflorence.org/en/projects/” margin_left=”0″ margin_top=”25″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”40″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][fancy_box box_style=”color_box_hover” icon_family=”iconsmind” color=”Accent-Color” box_alignment=”left” icon_iconsmind=”iconsmind-The-WhiteHouse” min_height=”200″]

Social Business Cities

Social Business can be a useful strategy not only for the resolution of specific social problems, but also for problems of common interest.

With this purpose, the Yunus Social Business Centre elaborates, in partnerships with local actors, integrated programmes aiming at the creation of an enabling eco-system for the development of a Social Business culture. Programmes are implemented by partners of the YSBCUF under its supervision and evaluation.[/fancy_box][nectar_btn size=”medium” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-2″ color_override=”#ef8519″ icon_family=”none” text=”HOW TO BECOME A SOCIAL BUSINESS CITY” url=”https://sbflorence.org/en/social-business-city-programme/” margin_left=”25″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][fancy_box box_style=”color_box_hover” icon_family=”iconsmind” color=”Accent-Color” box_alignment=”left” icon_iconsmind=”iconsmind-Idea-5″ min_height=”200″]

Grow your business!

We accompany social entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs to encourage the birth and spread of social businesses in Pistoia.

Grow your business! is a call that comes out in March and lasts from March to September, at the end of the path the best business projects can receive a investment grant.[/fancy_box][nectar_btn size=”medium” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-2″ color_override=”#ef8519″ icon_family=”none” text=”DISCOVER MORE ON GROW YOUR BUSINESS” url=”https://sbflorence.org/en/grow-your-social-business-pistoia/” margin_left=”25″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][fancy_box box_style=”color_box_hover” icon_family=”iconsmind” color=”Accent-Color” box_alignment=”left” icon_iconsmind=”iconsmind-Pencil” min_height=”200″]

Youth&Social Business

The Yunus Social Business Centre delivers trainings to university and high school students to advance the social business culture among the new generations.
Moreover, the Centre organizes workshop and events designed to bring together a network of professionals (entrepreneurs, designers, associations, administrators) and to facilitate the creation of new collaborations and projects.[/fancy_box][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Extra-Color-2″ color_override=”#ef8519″ icon_family=”none” text=”DISCOVER MORE ON YOUTH & SOCIAL BUSINESS” url=”https://sbflorence.org/en/youth-and-social-business/” margin_left=”25″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]