Social entrepreneurship is the work of a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principlesW to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. A social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors.
Work done by the Grameen Bank is an example of social entrepreneurship. Many of the appropriate technologies developed here have been deployed using social entrepreneurship techniques.
See also
- Socially responsible investing
- Social Entrepreneurship on WikiEducator
- The Social Enterprise Alliance (USA)
- The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (USA)
- The Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT, Chile)
- ASHOKA
- Social Edge
- The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (Switzerland)
- The Skoll Foundation (USA)
- Echoing Green
External links
Further Reading
- Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition, Sally Osberg and Roger Martin
- Everyone a Changemaker: Social Entrepreneurship's Ultimate Goal, Bill Drayton
- The Importance of Social Entrepreneurship for Development, Jürgen Nagler
- Enterprising Social Innovation: the most intriguing form of social entrepreneurship, Greg Dees and Beth Anderson
- We Won't Be Doing Much Business On A Dead Planet, Christophe Poizat
- Leveraging Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Global Collaboration for Just Sustainable Development', Joshua Pearce, Lonny Grafman, Thomas Colledge, and Ryan Legg
In Films
- Social Entrepreneurship Series: A film series profiling the global greats of social entrepreneurship, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
- Uncommon Heroes: Short film series profiling social entrepreneurs, Skoll Foundation
- Innovations: Technology|Governance|Globalization, MIT Press
- PBS Frontline/WORLD online series on social entrepreneurs [1]
- Social Enterprise Reporter [2] - Innovative Business Solutions for Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Network for social change - By Social Network for Social Entrepreneurs
Integrating into Education
Integrating social entrepreneurship into the curriculum can also be an effective method of service learning.
Examples of Course Syllabi
- Guidelines for Social Return on Investment - Social Edge
- Measuring Innovation - Social Edge
- Measuring What Matters - Social Edge
- Social Enterprise Development from NY Stern School of Business
- Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook - Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
- Articles and Reports - Social Entrepreneur Coach
- Lesson Plan: What is Social Entrepreneurship? - Students Helping Students
- Strategic Challenges for E-Commerce Promotion in Central Africa - Schwab Entrepreneur Case Study 2003-01
- Social Transformation - Social Edge
- Teaching Kids Business
- The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship - Social Edge
- Open Sustainability Network.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Joshua M. Pearce et al., "Leveraging Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Global Collaboration for Just Sustainable Development," in http://web.archive.org/web/20131008183311/http://nciia.org:80/conf08/assets/pub/pearce.pdf.
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