Social enterprise—which is also called social venturing, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and blended enterprise—is a recent development in which organizations seek to meet urgent social needs while operating as a business. Social enterprises are businesses with the distinguishing feature of having a mission of providing social welfare services for people who are disadvantaged or otherwise excluded. Businesses that provide some significant benefit for the whole of society, in such areas as the arts, the environment, or community development, may also be considered social enterprises.