Through analysis of homeless young adults? narratives and positionings, youth civic engagement indicators (Flanagan & Levine, 2010), and additional data, dominate and counter stories linked to youth civic engagement were uncovered (Collins, 2002). Part of a larger participatory-influenced (Cammorota & Fine, 2008) ethnographic dissertation study, the activist/empowerment club was held weekly at an urban drop-in resource center. Findings include specific barriers to youth civic engagement, as well as embedded opportunities at SRC. Additional analysis of indicators is needed to account for the economic and racialized barriers discussed (Ginwright, 2010).

Social enterprises are influenced by market logics and the pursuit of ?scale up,? while also engaged in collaboration with other organizations as a way to meet their social impact goals. Scholarly attention to scale has grown, including expanding the concept to include qualitative sustainability of change and institutionalization of practices. This paper examines the efforts of a social enterprise engaged in scale up and the implications their collaborations with local school partners. Social enterprise staff in this case saw themselves as consultants and schools as dependent on their expertise, and divided turf, which constrained processes of collaboration and scale up.