It’s officially holiday season. While we are admiring the decorations popping up around the city and maybe even hoping for snow, the city’s social impact startups are focusing on giving back to the community in these particularly jolly times.
In fact, Boston boasts of the best social enterprise ecosystem in the country, according to this year’s Social Enterprise Ecosystems Report. Social entrepreneurship programming is entering the mainstream. And local innovators are jumping on the bandwagon, combining their social missions with unmatched business ingenuity.
From providing blankets for the homeless to curing cancer (literally), these five Boston-based companies are making the wintertime feel-good stories we all know and love a reality. Here’s a tidbit on each of them:
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