Social Entrepreneurship and the Grand Challenges: Rethinking How We Finance Solutions That Scale

Social enterprises deliver climate, food-security, livelihood and inclusion outcomes at once, yet they sit in a ‘missing middle’: too commercial for grants, too patient for venture capital.

The panel examines blended and outcome-based finance, a practitioner’s account and Türkiye’s bridging role. KSV moderates, drawing on the experience of the İbrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Programme.