Social impact guides
Volunteering, social benefit, social impact, social innovation and social entrepreneurship: key concepts, how to get started and where to find support in Turkiye — clear guides with sources.
What is volunteering? How do you become a volunteer?
Volunteering is when a person freely gives their time, knowledge and skills for the benefit of society, a community or nature, without expecting payment. Helping at an association's event, doing an online translation or supporting a disaster area are all volunteering.
Read the guideWhat is social benefit? How is it created?
Social benefit is the positive value an activity, organisation or person brings to society, a community or the environment: better education, health, equal opportunity, a cleaner environment and stronger solidarity. Put simply, it is who and what a piece of work does good for.
Read the guideWhat is social impact? How is it measured?
Social impact is the change a programme, organisation or venture causes in people's lives and in society. What matters is not how much work is done but what changes as a result: training 100 students is an output; those students doing better at school is impact.
Read the guideWhat is social innovation? What are some examples?
Social innovation is a new solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable or just than existing solutions, where the value created goes primarily to society as a whole. It can be a new product, but also a new service, partnership model or policy.
Read the guideWhat is social entrepreneurship? How do you start a social enterprise?
Social entrepreneurship is entrepreneurship that aims to solve a social or environmental problem with a sustainable business model that earns its own income. A social enterprise puts social impact before profit, and largely reinvests its income in its mission.
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About hangel
hangel is a transparent social impact platform that makes doing good part of everyday life. It brings NGOs, volunteers, student clubs and brands together: volunteering opportunities, events, open grant and funding calls, a civil-society library and hangel Market, where a share of your purchase becomes a donation to the NGO you choose, all in one place. Management panels are free for NGOs and clubs; every NGO profile shows a transparency score and every product shows its donation rate. There's no such thing as struggling alone.