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What is Social Enterpreneurship?
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What is a Social Entrepreneur?
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.

Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are both visionaries and ultimate realists, concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else.

Each social entrepreneur presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it. In other words, every leading social entrepreneur is a mass recruiter of local changemakers—a role model proving that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything.

Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur.

Why "Social" Entrepreneur?
Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely new industries, a social entrepreneur comes up with new solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.

Historical Examples of Leading Social Entrepreneurs:
Susan B. Anthony (U.S.): Fought for Women's Rights in the United States, including the right to control property and helped spearhead adoption of the 19th amendment.
Vinoba Bhave (India): Founder and leader of the Land Gift Movement, he caused the redistribution of more than 7,000,000 acres of land to aid India's untouchables and landless.
Dr. Maria Montessori (Italy): Developed the Montessori approach to early childhood education.
Florence Nightingale (U.K.): Founder of modern nursing, she established the first school for nurses and fought to improve hospital conditions.
Margaret Sanger (U.S.): Founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she led the movement for family planning efforts around the world.
John Muir (U.S.): Naturalist and conservationist, he established the National Park System and helped found The Sierra Club.
Jean Monnet (France): Responsible for the reconstruction of the French economy following World War II, including the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). The ECSC and the European Common Market were direct precursors of the European Union.

Taken from: http://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur

February 17, 2009 | 9:39 AM Comments  0 comments



Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (SEI) at PURDUE UNIVERSITY
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The Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (SEI) is a partnership involving engagement, outreach, community, and service-learning programs, Discovery Park, and students interested in entrepreneurship. Its goals include:
• Creating opportunities for students to learn about entrepreneurship;
• Enabling teams and their project partners to identify, protect, develop, and benefit from the intellectual property they create together;
• Establishing processes and facilities that enable teams to develop their prototypes into commercial quality products and services;
• Spreading the benefits of products developed by team by commercialization.
The SEI provides a natural pathway for students to learn about and experience entrepreneurship – via the projects that they develop for their partners in the community. They first design a product or service that fills a known need in their local community and then explore other markets for it. They must identify the broader social need their product addresses, the uniqueness of their product relative to others, the best way to protect the intellectual property they have created, and the most promising first market for their product.

Following this pathway leads teams to the National Idea to Product (I2P) Competition for Social Entrepreneurship. The judges in these competitions compare the product-feasibility plans of the teams that have entered to determine those that are most likely to be successful. This is very similar to the evaluation process used by the venture capital community and provides our students with a very valuable experience they can draw upon throughout their careers.

Taken from: http://www.purdue.edu/innovate/

February 15, 2009 | 4:32 AM Comments  0 comments

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EARTH Universiry-Our Identity
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Our Identity



EARTH, inaugurated in1990, is an international, private, not-for-profit university dedicated to education, extension, research and the generation of value through production, transformation and commercialization activities. The academic program, leading to a “licenciatura” degree, emphasizes the agricultural sciences and the rational management of natural resources. The University seeks to contribute to sustainable development, with a special emphasis on the humid tropics; a region characterized by immense biological and cultural richness, yet threatened by social marginalization and inappropriate agricultural and natural resource management systems.

February 11, 2009 | 8:40 AM Comments  0 comments

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Leadership quotes
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Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. - Warren Bennis, Ph.D. "On Becoming a Leader"
The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.
- Jerry McClain of Seattle, WA
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Admiral Grace Hopper

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
- Andre Maurois

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist ìThe Age of Uncertaintyî

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller

It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel

Taken from: http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/leader/leadqot.html

February 11, 2009 | 6:38 AM Comments  0 comments

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Philantropy
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Philanthropy derives from Ancient Greek, meaning "to love people". Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. In a more general sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. One who practices philanthropy may be called a philanthropist. Although such individuals are often rich, people may perform philanthropic acts without possessing great wealth.

Philanthropy is a major source of income for fine arts and performing arts, religious, and humanitarian causes, as well as educational institutions (see patronage).

During the past few years, some high profile examples of philanthropy include Irish rock singer Bono's campaign to cancel Third World debt to developed nations; the Gates Foundation's massive resources and ambitions, such as its campaigns to eradicate malaria and river blindness; and billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett's donation in 2006 of $31 billion to the Gates Foundation.[citation needed]

Philanthropy is facilitated by development professionals and fundraisers. Donor relations and stewardship [1] professionals support the development profession by recognizing and thanking donors in a fashion that will cultivate future giving to nonprofit organizations. The Association of Donor Relations Professionals (ADRP) [2] is the first community of stewardship and donor relations professionals in the United States and Canada.

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy

January 25, 2009 | 2:40 PM Comments  0 comments

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