6 social entrepreneurs from Poland in IKEA and NESsT programs

IKEA Social Entrepreneurship and NESsT have selected social enterprises to benefit from the development program. Out of 80 organizations that submitted applications, six from Poland and four from Romania were selected.

The program was launched last year and will last three years. It will combine the business knowledge of employees of various IKEA family companies (IKEA Retail, IKEA Purchasing, IKEA Industry) with NESsT's experience in investing in social enterprises. IKEA supports and collaborates with social enterprises as part of the People & Planet Positive sustainable development strategy and thus contributes to reducing inequalities. 

IKEA Social Entrepreneurship was founded in 2012. Its task was to investigate how IKEA Retail can include in its offer products and services of social entrepreneurs and how to support programs that accelerate the development of social entrepreneurship.

“We are extremely excited about our partnership with IKEA Social Entrepreneurship. We are especially pleased that our new program will serve to support social enterprises in the region where NESsT was born twenty-five years ago. The companies we have selected are committed to solving the most important environmental problems and, at the same time, providing the best possible jobs to the excluded. They are exemplary organizations. They lead the way to achieving our sustainability goals,” Nicole Etchard, co-founder and co-president of NESsT, said.

(WBJ)