Table 1 provides a comparative overview of the main differences discussed in the paper. This comparison of social enterprise has found that many of the areas where the United States has difficulty with social enterprise, Europe shows strengths, and vice versa, making it possible for the two to learn a number of valuable lessons from one another. The United States can learn from Western Europe about recipient involvement in social enterprise, organizational governance, and government involvement. On the other hand, the United States offers important examples for Europe on how to use social enterprise across a range of services, on how to expand the types of social enterprise, and the targeted use of government contracts for products of social enterprise.