Cheng, Fun Fun2019-11-132019-11-132019-04https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208719Professional paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Affairs degree.Building equity into existing organizational structures that systemically work against equity has become the trend for non-profit, for-profit, and governmental organizations, with varying degrees of progress and success. Instead of adding an equity component into an existing system, is it possible to build a system that centers equity? This paper explores work that has been done in creating an organizational structure that has equity built into its structure from conception so that it systemically works for equity. What mechanisms need to be put in place within a system to make equity its natural setting so that when a structure veers from equity, the mechanisms draw it back into balance? Additionally, a crucial aspect of building an equitable organization is resilience. Once an equitable organization is created, how can it be supported for resilience and scalability? The focus of this paper will be on social enterprise as a promising model for addressing equity and resilience. Social enterprise is a new model that gained legal designation in Minnesota on January 1, 2015. This paper aspires to understand how an equitable organization can be created from conception, then looks at existing organizations to see how it is done. This allows for an analysis of theory and its application through real world practice. This paper also analyzes the promise of social enterprise as a resilient model, looking not only at its promise, but also its challenges and unintended consequences. We will look at the interplay of equity and social enterprise, considering why organizations choose this business model -- whether as a response to equity or as a model for resilience, or both.enChoosing Social Enterprise for Equity and ResilienceThesis or Dissertation