Economic Branch:
How can local small-scale social enterprises build strenght in communities?
Social enterprises are businesses that tackle social and environmental problems. They create jobs and generate income like other businesses, but instead of channelling their profits to owners they reinvest them to support their social mission. In doing so, they are improving people’s lives in our communities and societies. -The British Council
From Skoll World Forum
Top Social Entrepreneur Websites
Social entrepreneurs pave avenues of opportunity for those who would, otherwise, be locked into lives without hope. Learn more about social entrepreneurship and the Skoll World Forum, and hear why their innovations are the most promising solutions to global problems.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS ARE: Ambitious Mission driven Strategic Resourceful Results oriented
Vision: To advance an Everyone a Changemaker world, where anyone can apply the skills of changemaking to solve complex social problems.
Mission: To support social entrepreneurs who are leading and collaborating with changmakersm, in a team of teams model that addresses the fluidity of rapidly evolving society. Ashoka believes that anyone can learm and apply the critical skills of empathy, team work, leadership and changemaking to be successful in the modern world.
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In a recent online debate, social enterprise experts discussed the need for collaboration and infrastructure as well as the role that governments and big businesses can play.
Educational Podcasts
Social Entrepreneurs – Economic Development
How do we eradicate poverty, empower people economically, improve healthcare, provide educational opportunities, and sustain local communities around the world? That has been the task of international development efforts for decades. In these Social Innovation Conversations educational podcasts, find out what development across the globe looks like in the 21st century.
Academic Articles
Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Embedded Enterprise – Tedd Ladd Spring 2015
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
Academy of Management Learning & Education
An Interview With Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism –Michaela Driver 2012
Michael Porter explores social entrepreneurship in the context of a larger transformation of capitalism. He suggests that social entrepreneurship is an important transitional vehicle toward the creation of shared value and a capitalist system in which meeting social needs is not just a peripheral activity but a core aspect of every business. …The interview concludes by examining where Porter’s ideas may take us and reflecting on social entrepreneurship education as conversations about the social becoming more entrepreneurial but also the entrepreneurial becoming more social.
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2012, Vol. 11, No. 3, 421–431. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
