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Social Business
Social business is a cause-driven business. In a social business, the investors/owners can gradually recoup the money invested, but cannot take any dividend beyond that point. Purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the company; the investors desire no personal gain.
CharityVillage.com is a resource website for people involved in Canada's nonprofit sector. CharityVillage.com was founded by Doug Jamieson and Jim Hilborn. The site launched on July 13, 1995 with about 100 pages of content. One of the earliest websites to focus on servicing the nonprofit sector, CharityVillage.com quickly became a resource hub for the thousands of people involved in the sector across Canada.
Drishtee is an India based business that provides information technology goods and services to rural India through village kiosks that are run and managed by local entrepreneurs. These kiosks are developed using a franchise and partnership model.
Some of the services provided by Drishtee include computer education, English courses, rural BPO, government services, health, insurance, e-commerce, microfinance etc. Through its low cost, direct delivery network of over 2,400 kiosks, Drishtee has impacted the lives of over 1.5 Million people in rural India. One of Drishtee's primary objectives is to empower rural communities by supporting local entrepreneurship and thus helping to stem the distress migration of people from rural to urban parts of the country. The organization was founded in 2000 and is currently led by its co-founder and Managing Director - Mr. Satyan Mishra.
Free The Children is a children's charity founded in 1995 by children's rights advocate Craig Kielburger. The organization is largely youth-funded, specializing in sustainable development in six marginalized countries: Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Ecuador, Sierra Leone and China. Free The Children currently implements its Adopt a Village development model in rural communities in six countries: China, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Sierra Leone, India and Ecuador. Adopt a Village is made up of four components: education, health care, alternative income, and clean water and sanitation. Among other projects, Adopt a Village builds schools and water wells, and provides medical treatment and income sources to the developing regions. These projects are designed to address the root causes of poverty and remove the barriers to children’s education in the developing world.
Hence it can be safely concluded that social Business is building the backbone of the society and exemplifying how business can be made society-oriented and for everyone’s good which is an extremely noble work to take up in the profit and selfish driven world.

Arguably, America's most successful Supermarketer WholeFoods intends to be. At http;//wholeplanetfoundation.com it weaves: microcredit, fair trade, employees energised to change the world and governance (led by CEO John Mackey) that intends to shake up the food sector until you know what you eat and its costs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm5iJSjfjQ