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Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Elements in the
Business Plans
The Ateneo LSE seeks to promote and encourage all its students to come up with
social enterprise ideas that could be developed into full‐blown social enterprise
business plans. While it may not be possible to have students develop full social
enterprises, the Ateneo LSE program wants to ensure that at the very least,
students are able to incorporate social enterprise elements into their business
plans. The following provides examples of these elements:
1. Existence of a Social Problem
- Solution to the Problem is a Need
- Presence of Buyers to the Solution
- Delivery System for the Solution is in Place
2. Double or Triple Bottom Line
- Financial
- Social
- Environmental
3. Value Chain – inserting social/environmental elements in any and all the
processes
1) Procurement: Sourcing of materials
a. buy your materials from local producers, marginalized groups such as farmers,
small producers rather than the large ones
b. buy environmentally friendly materials rather than the traditional ones,
especially in packaging your product
2) Production process:
a. incorporate environmentally friendly practices into your production process,
e.g., less use of energy if possible
3) Employment:
a. who can you employ that may be more socially relevant? e.g., disabled,
Indigenous Peoples, disadvantaged youth/groups
b. use more labor, rather than machines and ensure payment of decent wages
and benefits
c. provide autonomy and participation of your workers in the different processes
of the social enterprise
4) Design:
a. how can you design your business to make it more environmentally and/or
socially relevant?
5) Marketing:
a. promote and market your products truthfully – do not exaggerate about your
product just to be able to sell
b. give the information that the customer needs to know to make an informed
decision on the product
c. how can you include marginalized groups as part of your target market?
(e.g., selling to healthy, organic products to the urban poor)
6) Donation: Profits/Surplus
a. give back some of your profit to pay forward to a good cause
b. provide scholarships/training opportunities for others
c. support socially relevant advocacies