Case Name :      Digital Opportunity Trust’s Business Model for Social Enterprise Work

Authors :           Dima Jamali, Bijan Azad

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W13171

Discipline :        Strategy

Case Length :    16 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

A social enterprise organization, whose mission is to battle poverty and gender discrimination through providing access to technology, is faced with the prospect of losing some or all of its government funding in a time of global recession. Under the legal structure of a non-governmental organization, Digital Opportunity Trust has partnered with large corporations and other organizations and established a local presence in disadvantaged areas. It has worked in a partnership setting to mobilize the information technology knowledge of young people and train them to become leaders of change in their local communities, which in turn will give them the relevant skills and experience to support their own career paths. The organization’s striking success has been driven by its innovativeness and, more particularly, its noticeable efforts to reconcile the corporate and non-profit aspects of doing business, along with the challenges that come with it, without compromising the quality of the social enterprise brand that it is bringing forward.