Partner with us to optimize your BEE scoreboard and maximize your tax exemptions, skills development, and CSI benefits.
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Improve your B-BBEE score through Enterprise & Supplier Development
Equip young people with digital and entrepreneurial skills that open real income opportunities
Measurable social impact aligned with your CSI strategy
ESG Strategy, SED & BEE points
Improve your company's CSI Strategy
Tax benefits supporting a PBO
Measurable Impact Reporting
Youth Income generation
Partnership recognition
"This structured learning process helped me to understand my organisation's strengths and weaknesses and how to present them effectively. I learned so much, and it was clear why I had struggled to gain traction before."
Theresa Muller, learner on the Build Your Social Enterprise Programme.
We believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world. We strengthen their role in local communities across South Africa through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.
PARTNER WITH USFrom leadership development to social entrepreneurship — find a programme that fits your journey and community.
Build the skills and confidence to lead change in your community and organisation through transformational learning.
Our facilitator-led learning and development programmes offer a dynamic space to connect with other changemakers and effect change.
We empower young people in South Africa who have a desire to see positive change locally and globally.
Bringing social innovation thinking into classrooms across South Africa, equipping learners with real-world entrepreneurial skills.
Practical support to launch or grow a social enterprise that makes a real difference in your community.
Turn digital skills into real income: AI, digital marketing, e-commerce and entrepreneurship for young South Africans, fully online and self-paced.
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Want to support the next generation of social entrepreneurs?
"Never think you can't be the one to change the world. You're just where it starts." Join us to build the social enterprise ecosystem in South Africa. Partner with us so that we can change the world together.
PARTNER WITH USSocial Enterprise Connect is an exciting Community of Practice (CoP) for social entrepreneurs in South Africa. The CoP was born out of a partnership between Social Enterprise Academy Africa (SEAA) and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
"There is clearly a massive need to support social entrepreneurs across South Africa. We already have over 7300 social enterprise members and our community is growing with new members every week."
At the Social Enterprise Academy (SEA), we believe that young people have the power to build a more inclusive, innovative and sustainable future.
Check out the latest updates from the team in South Africa and get a glimpse of the work we are doing across our different learning programmes.
Social Enterprise Connect (SEC) is an exciting Community of Practice (CoP) for social entrepreneurs in South Africa.
Read more →Impact Makers and Creators was an ambitious programme that worked with ideation and growth stage creative social entrepreneurs.
Read more →Chairman of our board, Shawn Theunissen, explains how economic growth and job creation in South Africa requires investing in the leadership skills of entrepreneurs to successfully run and grow their enterprises.
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