About The Pacific Mountain Institute

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The mission of the Pacific Mountain Institute is to foster innovative solutions for complex social and environmental problems, with a primary focus on researching, developing, and incubating projects that are based on social entrepreneurship.

Why Social Entrepreneurship?

The purpose of focusing on social entrepreneurial projects is two-fold; first it provides a path for individual project to be self-sustaining and thus deliver services more consistently over time, and secondly it places the emphasis on engaging the general public as key decision-makers for addressing social and environmental issues.

Traditionally, complex social and environmental problems have been approached by the government, business, education, and non-profit sectors in a piecemeal fashion. More recently, integrated, cross-disciplinary, multi-sector approaches have been developed that have provided more sustained success. However, gaining the support of the general public for tackling complex social and environmental issues remains a challenge.

The Pacific Mountain Institute seeks to bypass this challenge through the use of traditional business models that engage the public as consumers of useful information or products.

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