Social EntrepreneurshipDefinition Matrix

Prepared by S. Dev Appanah & Brooke Estin

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J. Gregory Dees, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University1)

Social entrepreneurs are reformers and revolutionaries, as described bySchumpeter, but with a social mission. They make fundamental changes in theway things are done in the social sector. Their visions are bold. They attack theunderlying causes of problems, rather than simply treating symptoms. Theyoften reduce needs rather than just meeting them. They seek to create systemicchanges and sustainable improvements. Though they may act locally, theiractions have the potential to stimulate global improvements in their chosenarenas, whether that is education, health care, economic development, theenvironment, the arts, or any other social field.2)

In addition to innovative not-for-profit ventures, social entrepreneurship caninclude social purpose business ventures, such as for-profit communitydevelopment banks, and hybrid organizations mixing not-for-profit and for-profitelements, such as homeless shelters that start businesses to train and employtheir residents. The new language helps to broaden the playing field. Socialentrepreneurs look for the most effective methods of serving their socialmissions.

AttackunderlyingcausesxEducationHealth-careEconomicdevelopmentEnvironmentArtsxSocial purposebusinessCommunitydevelopmentbanksHybridOrganisationsSheltersstartingbusinessesxCreate social/ environmentalvalueLocal action w/ potential forglobalimprovementLarge scaleSystemicchangeSustainableimprovementsNot-for-profitSocial purposebusinessHybridorganisationsSources

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The Meaning of “Social Entrepreneurship” J. Gregory Dees Original Draft: October 31, 1998

Reformatted and revised: May 30, 2001

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Bill Drayton, CEO and Chair of Ashoka1)

“A leading social entrepreneur sees a new opportunity, figures it out and thenstarts introducing it at the local level.”

Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society

s mostpressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major socialissues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Social entrepreneurs findwhat is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading thesolution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. Social entrepreneursact as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss andimproving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to changesociety for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely newindustries, a social entrepreneur comes up with new solutions to social problemsand then implements them on a large scale.

InnovativesolutionsSeizing newopportunitiesxSociety

s mostpressing socialproblemsxWide/ largescalechangeChangingthe systemSpreadingthe solution

SOURCE:

http://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBdIMhTOT4

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Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank1)

Social entrepreneurship is a very broad idea. As it is generally defined, anyinnovative initiative to help people may be describes as social entrepreneurship.The initiative may be economic or non-economic, for-profit or not-for-profit.2)

Social business is a subset of social entrepreneurship. All those who design andrun social businesses are social entrepreneurs. But not all social entrepreneursare engaged in social businesses.3)

A social business can be defined as a non-loss, non-dividend business. Ratherthan being passed on to investors, the surplus generated by the social business isreinvested in the business in order to support the pursuit of long-term social goals.The bottom line of a social business is to operate without incurring losses whileserving the people and the planet- and in particular those among us who are mostdisadvantaged- in the best possible manner.

AnyinnovativeinitiativexServingpeople, planet;disadvantagedgroupsxSocial business;non-loss, non-dividendbusinessSurplusreinvested forlong-term socialgoalsxLong-termsocial goalsFor-profitNot-for-profit

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SOURCE:

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus. Pg. 24 & 32

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Social Enterprise Alliance USA

A social enterprise is an organization or venture that advances its social missionthrough entrepreneurial, earned income strategies.

Social enterprise describes any non-profit, for-profit or hybrid corporate form thatutilizes market-based strategies to advance a social mission.xSocial missionxEarned incomestrategiesMarket-basedstrategies toadvance socialmissionNon-profitFor-profitHybrid corporateformEarned incomestrategies

SOURCE:

http://www.se-alliance.org/about_vision.cfm

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Social Enterprise Coalition UK1)

Social enterprises are businesses set up to tackle a social or environmental need.2)

Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to have socialobjectives, but social enterprises are distinctive because their social orenvironmental purpose is central to what they do. Rather than maximizingshareholder value their main aim is to generate profit to further their social andenvironmental goals. Social enterprise is a business model which offers theprospect of a greater equity of economic power and a more sustainable society -by combining market efficiency with social and environmental justice.xSocial andenvironmentalneedSocial orenvironmentalobjectives arecentral to theorganisationxBusiness totackle social/ environmentalneedGenerate profitto further social/ environmentalgoalsxGreaterequity ofeconomicpower and amoresustainablesocietyNot-for-profitSocial purposebusinessHybridorganisations

SOURCE:

http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/