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- Re-food : a Portuguese case study of a community-based enterprise creating social capital through food redistributionPublication . Anselmo, Laura Correia; Pinheiro, Susana Frazão Ferreira FernandesThis dissertation considers social entrepreneurship, particularly concepts of social value and social capital creation, by providing a case study of Re-food, a Portuguese independent non-profit organisation that takes excess food from its food partners and delivers it to people that need food assistance using its volunteers. Each Re-food centre operates at the level of a Portuguese parish and adopts a micro local model to serve its community. It analyses primary data obtained through the qualitative research method of semi-structured interviewing of Re-food’s partners, beneficiaries and volunteers, and other stakeholders, to provide triangulation and secondary (including unpublished) data supplied by the organisation. It considers three research questions: how a Re-food centre copes with variable food supply and demand; how Re-food finds people in need; and what Re-food does apart from providing food. The main findings are that Re-food faces several logistical issues and cannot achieve 100% food waste elimination (food); it creates social value through its work with its beneficiaries, including finding individuals from the “ashamed hunger” sector, fulfilling a basic social need, and allowing individuals to give time to help others (volunteers) and providing opportunity to express their social responsibility (partners). Re-food is found to be a Portuguese case study of a community-based enterprise creating social value by linking individuals and entities towards a common goal: the micro local elimination of food waste and hunger, thus creating social capital.