mentorDay has been recognized at the 2026 Social Enterprise Awards with two important awards that highlight its commitment to entrepreneurship, job creation and positive social impact.
The awards received are:
Best Responsible Project for Employment Development and Best Responsible Initiative to Promote Entrepreneurship
This double recognition confirms an idea that is part of mentorDay's DNA: entrepreneurship not only serves to create companies, it can also transform territories, generate opportunities and activate entire communities.
A recognition of entrepreneurship with real impact
The Social Enterprise Awards recognize business initiatives, social responsibility projects, and actions capable of generating real benefits for society.
In this edition, mentorDay has been awarded for its constant work supporting entrepreneurs, promoting acceleration programs and connecting talent, companies, mentors and territories.
But, especially, these awards highlight a very innovative initiative: Hotel Social+ , a project promoted by mentorDay that combines tourism, local entrepreneurship and social impact.
Hotel Social+: when a hotel becomes an engine of local development
Hotel Social+ is an initiative that helps hotels increase their social sustainability by directly supporting entrepreneurs, suppliers and small businesses in their local area.
The model is simple, but very powerful: participating hotels offer free acceleration grants , valued at 1,500 euros , to local entrepreneurs and suppliers so they can participate in mentorDay's acceleration programs.
In this way, the hotel ceases to be just accommodation and becomes a true agent of local economic development .
It helps improve the destination's business fabric, strengthens nearby suppliers, and generates new employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
An award for job development
The recognition as Best Responsible Project for Employment Development highlights Hotel Social+'s ability to professionalize local suppliers and strengthen small businesses.
Thanks to this initiative, entrepreneurs and businesses in the area can improve their skills, validate their business models, access expert mentoring, and prepare to collaborate with larger companies, including hotels and tourism groups.
This allows many local suppliers, who may not have previously met certain standards or had access to large customers, to become recovered suppliers , more competitive, prepared and connected with new business opportunities.
The impact is clear:
An award for responsible entrepreneurship
The second award, Best Responsible Initiative to Boost Entrepreneurship , recognizes mentorDay's ability to activate entrepreneurial ecosystems around hotels.
Each participating hotel can support entrepreneurs and suppliers in its region on a monthly basis, providing them with free access to training, mentoring, and business acceleration.
In addition, Hotel Social+ incorporates a particularly distinctive element: the hotel's own guests can become mentors to local entrepreneurs .
This transforms the tourist experience into something much deeper. The visitor no longer just gets to know a destination: they can also contribute to improving it.
Thus a more humane, participatory and regenerative form of tourism is born.
Regenerative tourism: traveling while leaving a positive impact
Hotel Social+ demonstrates that tourism can go far beyond environmental sustainability.
It can also promote social sustainability.
A hotel can help create jobs, strengthen local suppliers, support entrepreneurs, reduce dependence on imports, and generate a more authentic relationship with the surrounding community.
This approach transforms tourism into a platform for social innovation.
And it demonstrates that tourism companies can improve their reputation, their impact and their connection with the territory while contributing to local economic growth.
A boost to continue accelerating entrepreneurs
For mentorDay, these two Social Enterprise Awards 2026 are much more than just recognition.
They are a confirmation that the chosen path makes sense: supporting entrepreneurs, activating ecosystems, and generating real opportunities where they are most needed.
Accelerating a company is not just about improving a business plan.
It also means helping to create jobs, strengthening communities, connecting people, and building more sustainable economic models.
These awards encourage us to continue working harder so that every entrepreneur has more opportunities, more support, and more possibilities to turn their project into a viable, responsible company with a positive impact.
Thanks to those who make this impact possible
This recognition also belongs to all the entrepreneurs, mentors, experts, hotels, collaborators and entities that are part of the mentorDay ecosystem.
Every mentoring session, every acceleration program, every scholarship, and every collaboration helps to demonstrate that entrepreneurship with social impact is not only possible: it is necessary.
At mentorDay we will continue to promote initiatives that help create businesses, jobs and opportunities in all territories.
Because when entrepreneurship connects with purpose, community, and innovation, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for transforming society.
Why choose mentorDay?
With over 100 calls for applications, more than 3,000 companies accelerated in 40 countries, and a network of over 1,000 active mentors, mentorDay is an independent, free, and accessible online business accelerator. Its monthly program combines expert mentorship, AI tools, applied methodology, and an international community that helps businesses move faster and make better decisions.
If you're looking for a practical environment to validate, grow, and accelerate your business with real support, mentorDay can be a valuable option.
Discover our programs and start accelerating your business today:
https://mentorday.es/programas/modelo-mentorday/
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