SE101: Social Enterprise (SocEnt)
Everyone is talking about social entrepreneurship, but what does it mean?Social Enterprise is an emerging sector of business that focuses on social impact rather than merely profit maximization.
Social enterprises include a spectrum of business structures from non-profit organizations that have a sustainable revenue model to for-profit enterprises that have a social mission and hybrids in between. One definition among many...
Professor Yunus's 7 Principles of Social Business provide a flavor of business in the 21st Century:
Learn more about Ashoka's take on social entrepreneurship And the Social Enterprise Alliance view on the missing middle |
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Learn more...
Cool Projects (a featured list of social enterprises to get a feel for what it's all about)
Changemakers (a short list of some of the key funders in this emerging sector & resources for staying up to date)
- Modeling Change: SocEnt Ventures On Our Radar
- Leveraging Private Sector Expertise for Public Benefit
- Supporting Social Entrepreneurs
- Tech for Good
- Next Edu Paradigms: disrupting the status quo in education
Changemakers (a short list of some of the key funders in this emerging sector & resources for staying up to date)
- Jobseekers: where change goes to work (a starter list for people ready to work for social impact)
- Get the Buzz: News, media and amplifiers on social impact and social innovation
- Catalysts, Innovators & Funders
Interested in Social Enterprise and not sure how to engage?
1. Check out what people are already doing
2. Find people who are doing similar things to what you want to do
3. Get involved....
4. Get a job.... (here is a start list...)
6. If you don't have a thriving community in your geographic region, here are some ideas for how to create a thriving SE community:
Updated: January 1, 2014 Thanks social impact catalyst Amy Chou for assistance in updating this resource.
2. Find people who are doing similar things to what you want to do
3. Get involved....
- informational conversations
- volunteer for a project
- leverage your expertise
4. Get a job.... (here is a start list...)
- Social Edge - Job Listings
- Idealist
- Just means
- Foundation Center: Philanthropy News Digest
- Business for Social Responsibility: CSR Jobs
- Lifeworth
- Next Billion Jobs
- Omidyar Grantees/Investees: Jobs
- Social Enterprise Jobs Google Group
6. If you don't have a thriving community in your geographic region, here are some ideas for how to create a thriving SE community:
- Hive model: See the Hive, a monthly meet-up for entrepreneurs. Held at a bar on a Tuesday evening, the management only requires lining up a speaker who talks for 20 min and facilitating a Q&A for 20 minutes, mostly people come to meet others also interested in this area.
- HUB model: See the Impact Hub, a globally expanding network of social entrepreneurs who are sharing office space/resources to bootstrap ventures for social change.
Updated: January 1, 2014 Thanks social impact catalyst Amy Chou for assistance in updating this resource.