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ENTREPRENEURSH
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Which individuals or organizations can be considered to
be social entrepreneurs?
▪ Differentfields, disciplines and ▪ Philanthropists, social activists,
organization types are associated environmentalists, and other
with social entrepreneurship socially-oriented practitioners
▪ Profit businesses to hybrid are often referred to as social
models combining charitable entrepreneurs. 
work with business activities, to
non-profit charities, voluntary
sector organizations and non-
governmental organizations.

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 Jean-Baptiste (1767–1832), a French economist, defined an
entrepreneur as a person who "undertakes" an idea and shifts
perspectives in a way that it alters the effect that an idea has on
society.

Simply put, “entrepreneurship becomes a social endeavor when it

transforms social capital in a way that affects society positively”.

An issue relates to society allows social entrepreneurs to develop

innovative solutions and mobilize available resources to affect the
greater global society

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• Pakistani “Akhter Hameed Khan”

• A Pakistani development practitioner and social

scientist, he promoted rural development in
Pakistan and other developing countries.
• Comilla Model and Orangi Pilot project

• Bangladeshi “Muhammad Yunus”

• Founder of Grameen Bank which pioneered the

concept of microcredit for supporting innovators in
multiple developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America.
• Nobel Peace Prize
 Social Entrepreneurial structure models.
•

“ • Leveraged non-profit:
This business model leverages financial and other
resources in an innovative way to respond to social
needs.

• Hybrid non-profit:

• Use profit from some activities to sustain its other

operations which have a social or community purpose

• Social business venture:

These models are set up as businesses that are designed
to create change through social means. 5
 In the leveraged nonprofit venture the entrepreneur

“ uses external partners for financial support in

providing a public good.
• On the other hand, the hybrid nonprofit venture
recovers a portion of its costs through sales of its
goods or services.
• The social business venture generates profits,
but rather than return those profits to
shareholders, like commercial ventures, it
reinvests those profits to further the social
venture and the resulting social benefits.

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Famous Social Entrepreneurs

▪ Bill Drayton
 Muhammad Yunus: ...
▪ Blake Mycoskie: ...
▪ Scott Harrison: ...
▪ Jeffery Hollender: ...
▪ Xavier Helgesen, Chris Fuchs, and Jeff Kurtzman: ...
▪ Akhtar Hameed Khan: ...
▪ Ibrahim Abouleish:
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