Awards
There are several awards that recognize and reward social enterprises.
The Social Enterprise Awards is the UK's national award for social enterprise, recognising both individuals and organisations in the social enterprise movement. These are run by Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) in partnership with social enterprise organisations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Social Enterprise Awards evolved out of the Enterprising Solutions Awards, which were run by SEUK in collaboration with the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office and the Community Banking branch of the RBS Group.
The Edge Upstarts Awards are run annually by the New Statesman in the UK.
The Asia Social Innovation Award is the first Asia-wide annual competition that asks for simple ideas that can solve social issues common in Asian cities, such as an ageing population, poverty and environmental sustainability.
The Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge is the first and the only inter-collegiate social ventures business competition in Hong Kong.
Fast Company has a yearly ranking of top 15 to 25 noteworthy social enterprises called the Social Capitalist Awards which highlights noteworthy organizations in social innovation (2004 to 2010).
In addition, several organizations offer fellowships like Ashoka, Acumen Fund, and Echoing Green all three of which are quite competitive. Still other organizations offer accelerator and mentorship programs like the Unreasonable Institute .
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