...What is social entrepreneurship? The animation is made to explain the concept of social entrepreneurship to the general public and raise awareness of the importance of this type of business.... Social entrepreneurship is the attempt to draw upon business techniques to find solutions to social problems.This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs. Conventional entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, but social entrepreneurs also take into account a positive return to society. Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural, and environmental goals is often associated with the voluntary sector. At times, profit also may be a consideration for certain companies or other social enterprises. There are continuing arguments over precisely who counts as a social entrepreneur. Thus far, there has been no consensus on the definition of social entrepreneurship, so many different sorts of fields and disciplines are associated with social entrepreneurship. Philanthropists, social activists, environmentalists, and other socially oriented practitioners are referred to as social entrepreneurs. For a clearer definition of what social entrepreneurship entails, it is necessary to set the function of social entrepreneurship apart from other socially oriented activities and identify the boundaries within which social entrepreneurs operate.[4] Some have advocated restricting the term...
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...of Social Entrepreneurship and the work that a social entrepreneur does. The Report is a guide to learn Social Entrepreneurship through Handson experience. The Report covers my experience in starting a Social Enterprise, difficulties I encountered during the time and how to make a Social Enterprise a Viable option. This report covers everything from rise of this term Social Entrepreneur, to work done by Social Entrepreneurs, to the Entrepreneurial theories and approaches they follow or must follow. This report also describes several Social Ventures and the people behind those ventures who have brought about a positive social change. Social Entrepreneurship is a relatively new phenomenon and the excitement it has created throughout the world because of the impact it has had is tremendous. This report thus describes what learning social entrepreneurship through hands-on experience is. The Report also lists the various people I contacted for Sponsorship and the manner in which they supported the project. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 03 ABSTRACT 04 1. SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP 06 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 OBJECTIVES 1.3 METHODOLOGY 1.4 DATA COLLECTION 1.5 CHAPTER SCHEME 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 11 3. HISTORY 17 4. MODERN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP 22 5. SOME OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES 27 6. THEORIES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP 33 7. CONCLUSION 38 8. BIBILIOGRAPHY 39 6 CHAPTER-1 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1.1 INTRODUCTION: Social entrepreneurship is...
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...Towards a Better Understanding of Social Entrepreneurship Some Important Distinctions Jerr Boschee and Jim McClurg In this short article the authors outline the four key distinctions that differentiate non-profit social entrepreneurial organisations from other types of charitable non-profit organisations who claim to be making use of social entrepreneurial approaches. Towards a Better Understanding of Social Entrepreneurship Some Important Distinctions Jerr Boschee and Jim McClurg Contents: • Introduction • Four Key Distinctions 1. The differences between “entrepreneurship” and “social entrepreneurship” 2. The differences between “sustainability” and “self-sufficiency” 3. The differences between “earned income strategies” and “social purpose business ventures” 4. The differences between “innovators”, “entrepreneurs” and “professional managers” • Some Final Thoughts • Social Enterprise Definition • Further Information Introduction “Social entrepreneurship” is one of the most misunderstood phrases in the non-profit sector today. Everybody, it seems, has a different definition of what it means. This is our attempt to bring some clarity to the discussion. Our perspective has been shaped by 50 years of experience in the field, one as head of a national consulting firm and the other as the chief executive officer of a US$ 15 million social enterprise. Twenty years ago the idea of non-profits acting in an entrepreneurial manner...
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...(IJIET) Social Entrepreneurship: A Growing Trend in Indian Economy Dr. Partap Singh Head & Asstt. Professor, Deptt. of Management studies S. D. Institute of Technology and Mgt. (SDITM) Israna, Panipat, Haryana Abstract - Social entrepreneurs can help get better various issues like nutrition, education and health care and many are still blighted by unemployment and illiteracy by helping those less fortunate towards a worthwhile life. Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, they can solve the problem by changing the system. Social entrepreneurship is expected to be the next big thing to influence India as the country juggles to achieve a balance between a growing GDP growth, ensuring inclusive growth and attempting to address issues ranging from education, energy efficiency to climate change. This paper attempts an analytical, critical and synthetic examination of social entrepreneurship in India. Key words: Social venture, inclusive growth, and social problems. I. INTRODUCTION Social entrepreneurship is the recognition of a social problem and the uses of entrepreneurial principles to organize create and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change. While a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur also measures positive returns to society. Thus, the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further broaden social, cultural, and environmental goals. Social entrepreneurs...
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...What is Social Enterprise? A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits for external shareholders. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit, and may take the form of a co-operative, mutual organization, a disregarded entity, a social business, or a charity organization Many commercial enterprises would consider themselves to have social objectives, but commitment to these objectives is motivated by the perception that such commitment will ultimately make the enterprise more financially valuable. Social enterprises differ in that, inversely, they do not aim to offer any benefit to their investors, except where they believe that doing so will ultimately further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals. The term has a mixed and contested heritage due to its philanthropic roots in the US, and cooperative roots in the UK, EU and Asia. In the US, the term is associated with 'doing charity by doing trade', rather than 'doing charity while doing trade'. In other countries, there is a much stronger emphasis on community organizing, democratic control of capital and mutual principles, rather than philanthropy. In recent years, there has been a rise in the concept of social purpose businesses which pursue social responsibility directly, or raise funds for charitable projects. Many entrepreneurs, whilst running...
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...Social Entrepreneur Assignment ENT 200-001 Jessamyn Waldman-Rodriguez Jessamyn Waldman-Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Hot Bread Kitchen, an award-winning social enterprise that hires and trains immigrant women to bake artisanal breads that reflect their countries of origin. Since its inception in 2007, she has lead the growth of the organization from a visionary idea to a thriving bakery and workforce development program with her efforts being recognized by renowned social entrepreneurship organizations including: Echoing Green, which selected her from over 1500 social entrepreneurs; the Eileen Fisher Company that awarded her a Grant for Women Entrepreneurs in 2007, the Hitachi Foundation Yoshiyama Award, and Coro, which presented her with their inaugural Alumni Community Leadership Award. Jessamyn holds a MPA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of British Columbia as well as currently teaches social enterprise and capitalization of hybrid ventures at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Before starting Hot Bread Kitchen, she gained 10 years of experience in non-government organizations, government, and the United Nations, focusing on human rights, education, and immigration issues. She worked in many places, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Bosnia, Guatemala, and Chile. Jessamyn also has a Master Baker certificate from the New School University and was the first woman to be hired as a baker at Chef Daniel Boulud’s...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Strayer University – Online Professor Michael Powers January 21, 2011 Abstract Today’s entrepreneurs can learn how to profit and be social responsibility by studying the leading entrepreneurs of the past. In this paper we will learn Jack Welch and Dirk Mueller-Remus leadership style, and major business principles for a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. Also their major business principles for a social-responsibility oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary is goal to make a positive impact on society (people, families, ecology, or similar) while providing a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. This paper will also show what three resources or tools available through the Small Business Administration and SCORE would be the most useful. Analyze and describe the founding leader(s), leadership style, and major business principles of a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. The founding profit oriented leader is Jack Welch. He had a successful strategic plan with an aggressive approach to we maximize the opportunity. He will confidently say that the bottom line for most if not all entrepreneurs are to take care...
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...Building Social Business: An Alternative Mode of Ensuring ESC Rights. Chapter one: 1.1 .Introduction 1.2 Background of study 1.3 Concept of social Business 1.4 Concept of ESC Rights 1.5 Rational and significance of the study 1.6 Objective of this research 1.7 Hypothesis 1.8 Reasons for selecting topic 1.9 Research Methodology Chapter two: historical background: 2.1 Introduction 2.2History social Business 2.3 Origin of social Business and its kinds 2.4. Economical situation after liberation war . 2.5Our society and business and commonplace business Chapter four: 4.1 Definition of social business. 4.1 Why social Business? 4.2 Which is not social Business? 4.4 Types of social Business. 4.5 Social Business a business model 4.6 Social business model framework/ Legal framework for social Business 4.7 Features of social Business to be considered 4.8 Seven principle of social Business 4.9 Four rules of social Business 4.10 Advantages and disadvantages of social Business \Chapter five 5.1 profit and social Business 5.2 How Bangladesh can profit from social Business 5.3 Social Business in Bangladesh compared with abroad 5.3 What Social Business offers? 5.1How to build social Business/ How social Business Can be started? 5.2 Social business as a new form of capitalism 5.5 Social investment fund …social stock market. 5.3 creating a glabal insfrustracture for Social business...
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...SocEntResearch.org | SocEntResearch.org | Collecting data on social entrepreneurs is problematic for a number of reasons. For instance, the nascency of the field means that there are relatively few (as compared with fields like commercial entrepreneurship or family firms) potential subjects for those wanting to study founders of social ventures. Moreover, due to the global nature of the field, social entrepreneurs tend to be a disbursed group. Add to this the fact that there is little government-mandated public information on most social enterprises (as is the case with publically-traded firms, for example), and one can understand why few empirical studies on social entrepreneurship have gone beyond case studies. This is evidenced by a recent study by Short, Moss & Lumpkin (2009) which found only 16 papers published on the topic which utilized quantitative methods and most of those employed only descriptive statistics (e.g. means, medians, ranges). While theoretical pieces and case studies have added significantly to our understanding of social entrepreneurship, the dearth of quantitative research on the topic is extremely troubling. Without such research, our findings lack the generalizability needed to prescribe best practices to disparate social entrepreneurs. Additionally, the problems inherent in collecting data on social entrepreneurs and enterprises both discourages scholars from joining the field and limits the types of studies and publication outlets...
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... Introduction In this paper it will discuss and address a human service organization. The organizations vision and mission will be addressed. The organization staff and how it is governed will also be talked about in this paper. The key stakeholders will be discussed and the influence each may have on how the human service organization is operated. The community collaborations, and marketing, and public relations strategies of the organizations will be addressed, and the importance of these collaborations, and how they affect the organization as well as the community. The organization dealings with diversity issues will also be addressed. Environmental trends will also be evaluated through the political, economic, social, and technology issues for the organization when trying to serve, and fulfill the needs of the people in the community will be discussed. The Human Service Organization The Norton Love Community Center is located in High Grove, California; the center provides a community center that focuses on meeting the basic needs of the community. The center offers seniors two healthy meals and nutritional snacks daily Monday thru Friday. The meals are prepared by volunteers who are committed to serving the community. The center helps individuals in a variety of ways the organization offers bill payment assistance program to clients who may have shut-off notices on his or her light or gas bills. The center is open...
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...Social entrepreneurial conduct is vital for positive social change through inventive critical thinking. All things considered, it is sensible to advance social enterprise at the university level and to guarantee that minority understudies have admittance to the assets and also the information, aptitudes, and capacities that will empower them to wind up social business people. Along these lines, they will be better prepared to have any kind of effect in their groups. Accordingly, their social entrepreneurial expectations must be expanded as these aims are the antecedents to real conduct. Social entrepreneurial aims among African American and Hispanic understudies may be expanded if their demeanors, saw behavioral control, and other individual components are evaluated and tended to, and on the off chance that they are sufficiently tested and bolstered. They ought to have admittance to tutors and informal organizations/expert systems and so forth. Further research in these zones should be led. Since African American and Hispanic college understudies might not have informal communities and expert bolster arranges that can give them exhortation and insight in the foundation of a social endeavor, colleges may need to give access to these social and expert systems to their minority understudies. They can welcome effective business visionaries, social business people, and investors to hold exceptional workshops that will help understudies in adding to their systems and permit them...
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...net/KathrynWatts/toms-shoes-28792436 https://www.behance.net/gallery/2855131/TOMS-Shoes-Media-Plan-Campaign On April 10th thousands of people around the world ditched their footwear for TOMS Shoes annual “One Day Without Shoes;” a campaign aimed at showing the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child’s life. It is heavily rooted in social media – supporters share experiences by Tweeting the #withoutshoes hashtag. AOL, a Simply Measured customer, partnered with TOMS to build online momentum leading up to 4/10. For us data geeks, AOL’s use of social media analytics was particularly interesting – both as a rally call for consumers and a as way to message results internally and externally. Looking at the data from these efforts serves as great case study for measuring and communicating social media analytics. Using Social Media Metrics as a Rally Call AOL created excitement around a social media metric – reach – asking consumers to help distribute the #withoutshoes messages to over 1,000,000 people before April 10th. By reporting reach each day of the campaign, AOL set a collective goal and communicated the impact to participants. At Simply Measured, we tend to think about social media programs like a megaphone. You put content in and when things work well, your messages get amplified. In this instance, AOL aligned their campaign goals around this amplification in a way that compelled consumers. This same type of approach could also be used to align internal stakeholders with your programs and...
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...Social Entrepreneurship can be explained as the act or submission of one or more persons with innovative resolutions to societies most pressing social issues. Social Entrepreneurship utilizes its resources and business surroundings to benefit the needs or wants of it social surroundings. One example that may play into social entrepreneurship is a company called “Thermpod”. A young girl, by the name of Jane Chen established this company, creating a sleeping bag-like device that warmed low-birth weight babies in hospitals and clinics. Chen’s invention not only saved lives of thousands of babies a year, but also put smiles on may faces. Another amazing social entrepreneur is Maggie Doyne, Founder of Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School. Doyne had a vision to help orphans from all over the country and provide them a home and education. Today, Kopila Valley homes and educates over 300 children from different countries such as Surkhet and Nepal. There are several services offered at Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School. For example, Kopila implemented the Safina Woman’s Association (SAWA) in Morogoro, Tanzania, which is dedicated to improving the well being of woman and children by promoting inclusive education. The Safina Woman’s Association works with their government agencies to influence policies, guidelines, and legislation concerning the wellbeing of woman and children. (Center for Education Innovations, 2014)). Doynes vision and mission goes far beyond...
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...Reading: Framing a theory of social entrepreneurship: Building on two schools of practice and thought - J. Gregory Dess and Beth Balle Anderson The paper argues that social entrepreneurship will be most effective and generate the greatest interest of academics when it combines elements of the two main existing schools of thought: the social enterprise and the social innovation school of thought. At the intersection of them, to which the authors refer to as “enterprising social innovations”, social entrepreneurship is defined as an “innovative, social and economic value creating activity” that offers the opportunity for large-scale social impact that is sustainable and not constrained by a legal form. Thus, the social sector should use the business world for inspiration and apply innovative market-oriented models to raise capital and address social issues. Such an approach would revolutionize the process of creating social value – blending social/philanthropic and economic components to shift resources into areas of higher impact for society. In my opinion, the claim that social entrepreneurship should focus on that intersection is the logical step forward in enhancing a new field of academic inquiry. Taken alone, each of the school maintains important aspects of tackling social issues: using market-oriented strategies to create social value is the best method to avoid the dependence on private donor capital which comes from the often illiquid social sector, offering the possibility...
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...Information Technology in Social Entrepreneurship: The Role and the Reality Diana Burley The George Washington University dburley@gwu.edu Abstract Social entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a critical component of the global conversation on volunteerism and civic engagement. The purpose of this article is to lay the groundwork for a larger conversation on the role of information technology in social entrepreneurship by summarizing the discussions among participants of a recent conference on the subject. Social networking and information sharing were identified as the most critical roles of IT in support of social entrepreneurship. However, in order to realize the full potential of these roles, conference participants suggested that four key challenges must be addressed: access, capacity, commonality, and the scholar-practitioner link. Keywords: information technology, social entrepreneurship Acknowledgement The author wishes to thank the organizers, participants, and volunteers of the 2009 Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference for their wisdom, insight and interest. Introduction Interest in social entrepreneurship, the application of business models to social issues, has risen to the forefront of the global conversation on volunteerism and civic engagement. Social entrepreneurship combines the passion of a social cause with business principles, and is distinguished from other forms of entrepreneurship by its pursuit of mission related impact...
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