Participate

Businesses

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The opportunities for business to help create a vital Fourth Sector include:

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• Doing business with Fourth Sector organizations.

• Investing in Fourth Sector enterprises.

• Providing reduced-fee or in-kind services to Fourth Sector organizations.

• Procuring goods and services from Fourth Sector providers.

• Advocating for better policy vis-å-vis Fourth Sector activity.

• Finally, social-purpose ventures and socially and environmentally conscious businesses might consider adopting For-Benefit attributes as a way to advance along the sustainability continuum.

 

A thriving Fourth Sector can deliver benefits:

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• Provide technical assistance, access to capital, and preferred status in some markets.

• Deliver employees who are conversant with triple bottom-line management and operations.

• Remove regulatory barriers.

• Provide tax incentives and other favorable treatment from government agencies.

• Provide validation in the sense of legitimizing them in the eyes of a public that has come to be skeptical about the mission and motive of conventional for-profits.

• Deliver visibility as part of the larger Fourth Sector movement.