Gray

You may say social enterprise and charitable organisation are different ends of the same spectrum, and there are many gray zones in between.

On that, I beg to disagree.

For the very nature of a social enterprise is to compete with other for-profit companies. If the former does not perform well, we can shift to their for-profit competitors and use the resource spared for charity purpose, rather than lingering on with something not cost-effective.

And, for charitable organisations, they have to compete - within their own species. For example, to put it simply, why should we use money to support a group that helps disabled people but not other disadvantaged ones?

PS. As a rule, I disagree with anything being pin down in the so-called gray zone. By the law of physics, gray is not a colour, but a state where we cannot distinguish tiny spots of black and white. It is not an excuse for us to give up the effort of telling black from white, and, to go one step further, it is shameless to declare black and white are nothing but two different shades of gray.