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The Challenge

How do you explain the benefits of the uncommon and complex work you do?

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Our Solution

Express the real impact of social enterprise.

We take the technical elements of social enterprise, fuse them together, and distill the message down into something powerful but clear, the rallying cry for a revolution: We All Profit. We helped create a purposeful brand strategy, inclusive and powerful messaging, a meaningful logo, authentic photography and film, and a bold website to truly communicate the story and impact of social enterprise.

Deliverables

Brand strategy
Slogan
Naming
Logo
Brand design
Font
Colour
Video
Web

Name

We just removed the weakest link

Innovation is ingrained into the very idea of what they do. The name CISED was hard to remember, but it had a legacy. Enter the improved, but familiar, CSED brand name. A simplified name to go with a clearer message. As partners, both Godzspeed and CSED understood that less was more.

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Video

“Social enterprise is the story of possibilities. It’s the story of a new way of business.”

Doug Pawson, Executive Director of CSED, explains the power of social enterprise. Together we can fill the cracks that our city’s most vulnerable people slip through. We married that message with striking visuals of Doug engaging with community — with the stores and people and places that social enterprise profoundly affects. Because we love what they do and represent, we gifted CSED this polished but purely authentic way to introduce people to the power of We All Profit.

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Slogan

We All Profit

With CSED, We All Profit. The familiar name needed a war cry to vividly convey the incredible impact their work creates. One that embodied everything the social enterprise sector stands for, while also highlighting the importance of CSED’s role.

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Web

When social enterprises land here, they see themselves.

The site is urban, gritty, and connected. The simple yet bold typography design focuses on the meaning and message. The purpose speaks for itself. brand shines through — the impact of social enterprise jumps off the screen.

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Brand Strategy

We had to make clear that everyone benefits from social enterprise.

The Centre for Social Enterprise Development is a nonprofit organization that supports social enterprises for their triple bottom line: people, planet, and profits. They needed a new focus for their strategy that spoke to the power of their purpose. The answer was right there in plain sight, in the rhetorical question asked by CSED: Why wouldn’t you want to help the real world by changing the world of business? With their help, We All Profit.

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Brand Design

They needed to look and feel like the revolutionary business leaders that they are. Our main goal for CSED’s brand was to show they are a major rallying voice in the sector, not just a silent partner. The brand is minimal enough to not distract from the message; its intentions are clear enough to evoke a choice within everyone who sees it.

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Fonts

We used a bold type font to create a sense of impact, mirroring what CSED does for community. The sans serif font is easy to read, making the message inclusive and accessible to all. Nobody is left behind. And, with the tri-colour E inserted into the wordmark, it’s easily noticeable, and becomes a symbol of CSED’s revolutionary vision.

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Colour

The colours needed to speak to CSED’s passionate purpose and triple bottom line. Purple represents the royalty of people — human dignity is at the centre of everything they do. Blue represents our little planet — the only home we’ve got. Green is the thriving profit that social enterprise creates for all stakeholders — without it, business 
can’t survive.

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CSED’s Got Soul

The Centre for Social Enterprise Development is a Canadian nonprofit organization that supports social enterprises for their triple bottom line: people, planet, and profits. CSED had a revolutionary vision — now they had the branding identity to match. We helped them discover the tools to start a social movement that could change the world.

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Conclusion

Together we make impactful and lasting change in the world

by guiding our respective clients to reach their full potential for people, planet, and profit. We’re proud that CSED is nationally recognized as the gold standard when it comes to branding and messaging in the social enterprise sector.