How to fill the funding gap through Social Procurement

If, like so many other NGOs, you are worried about how you can continue meeting the needs of your community without sufficient funding - here I illustrate social procurement as a great way to plug the gap.

Organisations mentioned include:

- International Labour Organisation, https://www.ilo.org/;
- Prewave, https://www.prewave.com/;
- Sanergy Collaborative, https://www.sanergy.com/;
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, https://www.schwabfound.org/home;
- Sommalife, https://vitara.ag/;
- Tebita Ambulance, https://www.tebitambulance.com/;
- Veja, Project | VEJA;
- World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/; and
- Yunus Social Business, Yunus Social Business.

Thanks to the following for information and/or images:

- Acumen, Acumen backs Sommalife to build fairer markets and climate-resilient livelihoods for women farmers - Acumen;
- Autodesk Foundation, The Sanergy Collaborative | Autodesk Foundation;
- Big Build, Australian government, https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/about/construction-procurement/social-procurement/introduction-to-social-procurement#:~:text=Social%20procurement%20homepage,%2C%20services%2C%20or%20construction%20procured.;
- Daily Nation, https://nation.africa/kenya/business/enterprise/how-company-turns-human-waste-into-animal-feed-fertiliser--3575292;
- Doing Good Index by the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society (CAPS), https://doinggoodindex.caps.org/;
- Edmund Dantes;
- EqualStock IN;
- GAIL, https://gailnet.org/state-of-social-procurement-2026/#:~:text=January%2013%2C%202026,over%2010%20countries%20and%20regions.;
- Hucc Coop, 共購力的實踐 　合作社榮獲經濟部Buying Power社創採購首獎 - 台灣主婦聯盟生活消費合作社;
- International Labour Organisation, https://www.ilo.org/publications/flagship-reports/employment-and-social-trends-2026#:~:text=The%20report%20analyses%20productivity%2C%20demographic,PDF%204.88%20MB;
- International Labour Organisation, https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/Sustainable%20Procurement%20Partnership%20An%20industry-wide%20initiative%20and%20case%20studies%20of%20SMEs%20on%20responsible%20business%20conduct.pdf;
- Japan International Cooperation Agency, https://www.jica.go.jp/english/information/press/2021/20211008_10e.html;
- Joseph Eulo;
- Julia M Camero;
- KGI Life, https://www.kgilife.com.tw/en/articles?id=37e2b1c0abfa426dbfe10590801ef1a2&tid=bc1b63e6b0904af9965ac03e3cecb882;
- Kiva, The Demonstration Effect: How Kiva made a difference for sanitation startup Sanergy | Kiva;
- Mikahil Nilov;
- Nothing Ahead;
- Progga Media:
- RDNE Stock Project;
- Romerito Pontes;
- Research paper – Social Enterprise Ecosystems in Developing Countries: Examining Support Structures, Regulatory Context, and Evolving Challenges by Watson, Brooks and Olabiyi, 2026, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403184682_Social_Enterprise_Ecosystems_in_Developing_Countries_Examining_Support_Structures_Regulatory_Context_and_Evolving_Challenges#:~:text=Key%20findings%20reveal%20that%20while,reliance%20on%20volatile%20donor%20funding.;
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, https://www.schwabfound.org/;
- Small and Medium Enterprise and Startup Administratration, https://www.sme.gov.tw/article-en-2442-14168;
- Social Traders, Home - Social Traders;
- Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Power of Social Procurement;
- Thirty Story;
- Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation, https://toaf.org.tw/en/blog/tree-planting;
- World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/the-business-of-impact-in-a-changing-world/#:~:text=Technology%2Ddriven%20growth%20is%20fundamentally,drop%20of%20almost%20a%20third;
- World Economic Forum, https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-alliance-for-social-entrepreneurship/socproc-publicprocurement; and-
- Yunus Social Business, A $500 Billion Market Opportunity for Real Impact.pdf - Google Drive.

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