TOPAZ - Leading Social Innovations

TOPAZ Center for Innovative Social Entrepreneurship was established in 2000 by a group of social entrepreneurs and was developed as a unique work model to assist innovative social ventures to grow and function under the protective guidance of Topaz. Topaz aims to advance and enrich the entrepreneurial culture and the education to entrepreneurship in the community by providing a greenhouse that supplies social entrepreneurs with the professional and organizational tools to bring their dreams to fruition. Topaz believes that social ventures play an important role in bringing about social change by shaping and advancing a fair, democratic society through effective, efficient and creative solutions. Topaz's Goals: 1.Building and developing new social projects from the first stages of planning to the stable stages of organizational operation. 2.Nurturing, aiding and empowering new social entrepreneurs, while placing professional and supportive organizational platform. 3.Developing new innovative projects in the fields of social community. 4.Developing projects that are capable of inter-cultural accord to be assimilated and developed in different communities and countries, especially in developing countries.