SocialEntrepreneurship v 02.1

8/14/2019 SocialEntrepreneurship v 02.1

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/socialentrepreneurship-v-021 1/22

Presented by:Michael Cecchi

Till HemmerichRoss Ionta



• Definition

• Qualities

•

Social EntrepreneurialProfiles



• Identifies and solvessocial problems

• Act as the change agents

for society, seizingopportunities others missin order to improvesystems

•

Invent and disseminatenew approaches andadvance sustainablesolutions that create

social value.



• Work is targeted notonly towardsimmediate, small-scale effects, butsweeping, long-termchange



• Tackle major issues

• Operate in all kinds of

organizations: – Innovative non-profits

– Social purposeventures

– Hybrid organizations

http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp



• Generating socialvalue, not wealth

•

Wealth creation is notan end in itself

• Promoting systematicsocial change




• See & act upon whatothers miss – Opportunities to

improve systems – Create solutions

– Invent new approachesthat create social value

• Focused in theirpursuit of a socialvision




• Social entrepreneursoperate within a socialcontext

– Limited access tocapital and traditionalmarket support

systems• Skilled at mustering

and mobilizing human,

financial and politicalhttp://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp



• Driven to producemeasurable returns

• Results:

– Transform existingrealities

– Open up new pathways

for the marginalized &disadvantaged

– Unlock society’s

potential to affectsocial chan ehttp://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp



• Unless a nonprofitorganization isgenerating earned revenue from its

activities, it is not acting in anentrepreneurial manner

• It may be doing

wonderful things but itis innovative, notentrepreneurial

• Only earned income will

allow a nonprofit tohttp://www.se-alliance.org/better_understanding.pdf



• Goal was to creativelysalvage materials from the10,000 abandoned housesthe city is demolishing overthe next 10 years

• Saved hundreds of tons of building waste and alsohired young adults to collectmaterials and sell them inthe ReUse store, ReSource

• Excess building material canbe used from art towoodworking to refinishingto welding and metalwork → creates opportunities forartisans.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html



• Opened his family’s front porchand basement as a makeshiftcommunity center for driftingyoung people in Brooklyn

• Mobilized young people in his

neighborhood to go door to doorto raise money to rent their owncommunity center (2002) – They gathered $25,000 in a little

more than two weeks andstarted Team Revolution

• Team revolution now operatesmany programs includingworkshops on financial basicsand community mural painting.



http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/socialentrepreneurship-v-021 17/22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_T7FaZsXfA



• AstroTots is a spaceand science camps forgirls 4 to 10 years old

• Camps haveexpanded to 10 states

• Started AstroTots to

show girls that theycould go into sciences→ wasn’t a boy’s job



http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/socialentrepreneurship-v-021 19/22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvwPKAaJBAs



• Poeuv was born in a Thairefugee camp to Cambodianparents who fled the KhmerRouge

•

Her curiosity about herparents’ long silence led herto make a film about herpersonal history, called“New Year Baby”

•

‘‘Khmer Legacies’’ is aproject in which childreninterview their parents aboutsurviving the Cambodiangenocide and which shehopes will result in 10,000videotaped testimonials




Hybrid Value Chain

• Respective corecompetencies frombusinesses and citizen

organizations

• Combines assets andskills of businessmen

and socialentrepreneurs tobetter serve low-

income markets



Hybrid Value Chaincont…

• New generation of win-wincollaborations

between the low-income consumers,business partners

and socialorganizations

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