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Businesses that work for a cause are booming

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Would you operate a business -- and use the profit -- purely for a social purpose, like helping the environment, creating a charity or employing those who cannot get work? Image: A working day at the mattress factory (SBS)


Swinburne University in Melbourne says there are about 20,000 such enterprises in Australia and they employ 300,000 people.

 

And the number is growing.

 


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