The concept of social enterprise in the United States is generally much broader and more focused on enterprise for the sake of revenue generation than definitions elsewhere. This remains true even when considering the definitional divide in the United States between aca demics and practitioners. In U.S. academic circles, social enterprise is understood to include those organizations that fall along a continuum from profit-oriented businesses engaged in socially beneficial activities (corporate philanthropies or corporate social responsibility) to dual purpose businesses that mediate profit goals with social objectives(hybrids)tononprofit organizations engaged in mission supporting commercial activity (social purpose organiza tions).Forsocialpurposeorganizations,mission supportingcommercialactivitymayinclude only revenue generation that supports other programming in the nonprofit or activities that simultaneously generate revenue and provide programming that meets mission goals such as sheltered workshops for the disabled (Young, 2001; 2003a). Social enterprise engaged in by nonprofits may take on a number of different organizational forms including internal commercial ventures, for profit and nonprofit subsidiaries, and partnerships with business including cause related marketing. This broad definition is consistent with how business schools at leading American universities understand social enterprise (Dees, 1994; 1996; 1998). This includes definitions used by the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and the Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship at the Columbia Business School. This definition is also used by many social enterprise consulting firms who advise nonprofits and for profits alike on social enterprise development including, for example, Community Wealth Ventures, The Social Enterprise Group, and Origo Social Enterprise Partners.