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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

See also Activism and Entrepreneurship and Third World Development and maybe even Environmental Justice,Globalization , Colonialism,Consumption, and Sustainability as well as Design Challenges

Background

Social entrepreneurship is a new concept, but it weaves together strands that have been around for a long time. It's about forging social relationships and organizing people, but also attempts to work with the market and leverages the power of the Internet. See brilliant video explaining one aspect of this, Web 2.0 issues such as tagging.

Wikipedia overview

Skoll Foundation definition and discussion. Martin and Oberg have an excellent extended definition/discussion of the term.

The Skoll Foundation is dedicated to fostering social entrepreneurs. video overview is a good intro. Good resources

New! UCSC Center for Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive year-long program that could result in funding and company/ngo start-up funding.

News on social entrepreneurs from Huffington Post.

PBS Newshour has extensive coverage of SE's. A recent example from Brazil 10/11.

Bioneers has a new SE Empowerment program (audio of talks) includes Van Jones: Focus On A Social Problem Nobody Else Is Solving and Come Up With An Innovative Solution (30 minutes).

Stanford Innovation Review (a journal, but the website has audio and video as well).

TEDxYSE a self-organized TED conference for Youth Social Entrepreneurship.

Social Entrepreneur Corps has summer internships in Central America video

Unreasonable Institute offers a summer boot camp. Application due in December video.

How To

How to write a good plan/pitch for venture capital to start up from Guy Kawasaki at garage.com.

Start-up phases for entrepreneurs.

World Change 2.0: Creating a blueprint for social transformation by Scott Sherman Transformative Action Institute. Highly recommended.

Google for Entrepreneurs

Examples

2012 Winners of TheTech Museum innovation awards.

Anita Roddick, social entrepreneur, founder of The Body Shop, one of the first and most successful socially conscious businesses.

36 Women Social Entrepreneurs includes One Million Lights replaces kerosene with electric lights, as well as upcycled fair trade fashion. Beth Doane: Activist, Fashion Designer.

Slideshow of fifteen innovators 9/11

Another early and inspirational example is the founder of the Grameen microloan bank, Muhammad Yunus. You can find other examples on Eco-Heroes page. TEDtalks also feature quite a number of such folk as well, including the hundred dollar laptop, Jacqueline Novogratz You can search TEDtalks search here.

Founder Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia makes some of the best, and most expensive outdoor gear in the world, but the company’s mission is bigger than simply maximizing profit. The mission is: “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” company profile. new music project. talk video. A great company to work for.

Barefoot College in India trains poor women to build, install and maintain solar energy, empowering them and their villages. PBS News Hour. See also TEDtalk

Two UCB students give up finance and become social entrepreneurs, using coffee waste to grow organic mushrooms (video).

Brent Constantz developed technology to make "green" cement that could help slow global warming and ocean acidification based on a revolutionary product for healing broken bones inspired by the research on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.

Popularly known as the "Clothing Man", social entrepreneur Anshu Gupta created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas. His organization, GOONJ, has a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor, tackling a very basic and often neglected human need while also reducing waste. Ashoka video intro and longer video.

Bike helmet vending machine supports bikesharing.

Adam Braun, Founder and Executive Director, Pencils of Promise has built 50 schools.

FastCompany list 2008.

E-waste recycling in Chile (video) article. Canadian program to divert e-waste.

Additional Organizations

Wiser Earth map of socially conscious organizations, many with an social entrepreneur approach.

http://www.kiva.org/. Touching video on how it was founded by Jessica Jackley also video on micro-finance 2008. Audio interview with the other co-founder Premal Shah (2010).

http://www.ashoka.org/ founder is Bill Drayton. Their YouTube Channel.

http://www.worldchanging.com/

Acumen Fund founded by Jacqueline Novogratz (four TEDtalks).

Echoing Green searchable resources.

Compass Partners supports college social entrepreneurs.

Soc entre in action at EARTH U interview with founder.

TheTech Museum of Innovation in San Jose has a annual award.

More organizations

Ecopreneurist website has The Global Transition to a New Economy world map of innovative projects which challenge business as usual and make a contribution to the systemic change to the world economy which is urgently required.

Video

PBS Newshour has extensive coverage of SE's, and also of environmental issues.

Commonwealth Club (Bay Area) series on SE. Commonwealth Club series.

Stanford Ripples to Waves: The Stanford Program on Social Entrepreneurship presents Kavita Ramdas, Executive Director of Ripples to Waves and former CEO of the Global Fund for Women, in conversation with Taida Horozovic, Steve Williams and Ramzi Jaber, 3 Social Entrepreneurs in Residence at Stanford (SEERS).The SEERS will share their experience of how they initiated programs in Bosnia, San Francisco, and Palestine. GoogleTalk. 5.12.

PARC Forum series (these tend to be technology and business oriented).

Global 3000, a German program shown on PBS, has extensive coverage of green issues, especially with respect to Third World entrepreneurs. Examples: Coltan mining in Congo 7/10

Envisiongood.com has lots of interviews with a variety of ppl/approaches, but lots of social entrepreneurs, including the Unreasonable Institute that mentors them.

PBS Now site

Excellent series by PBS News Hour, especially inspiring is Barefoot University

Tactics of Hope video offers a brief overview. Website with resources

Jon Fisher on business aspects of entrepreneurship (Commonwealth Club 8/09)

Muhammad Yunus: Building Social Business Ventures (Amazon preview) is third book by Professor Yunus, following Banker to the Poor and video preview (Creating a World Without Poverty, and is dedicated solely towards the concept of social business, its implementation, and its maintenance.(preview). Founder of Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize See related videos on right. He has a new book, and a new initiative to bring microlending to the US in order to wipe out predatory payday loans. sort video and 2005 MIT lecture video 2009 talk at Google (video).

TEDtalks

Daniel Schnitzer co-founded EarthSpark International in 2008. Honored by the Clinton Global Initiative in 2010, EarthSpark International works in Haiti to develop markets and aid local entrepreneurs in creating a supply chain for safe, clean and renewable energy. It also played a vital role in relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake. (video)

Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate. TEDtalk video.

Women entrepreneurs, example not exception TEDtalk video.

Jonathan Abrams speaks about his experience as an entrepreneur at TEDxSF.

The New Heroes (ucsc owns: DVD2816). Sample: Albina Ruiz - Garbage Companies Peru.

Example: Nick Moon & Martin Fisher's Project: ApproTEC (Appropriate Technology for Enterprise Creation). Location: Nairobi, Kenya, offices in Tanzania, Mali and San Francisco, Calif. Nick Moon and Martin Fisher founded ApproTEC out of their belief that poor people don't need handouts, they need concrete opportunities to use their skills and initiative. ApproTEC provides these opportunities by specially designing and manufacturing tools that help people work more productively, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty.

Larry Brilliant on social entrepreneurs.

The Burning Season. "Dorjee Sun, a young entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from saving rainforests in Indonesia and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his scheme. Meanwhile another burning season gets underway. A small-scale farmer wrestles with the dilemma of clearing his land. In Borneo, a wildlife carer battles overcrowding and despair as more orangutans are rescued from the fires.."

Commonwealth Club series: Social Entrepreneurship in America Sally Osberg: Empowering Social Entrepreneurs

Audio

Bioneers has a new SE Empowerment program (audio of talks) includes Van Jones: Focus On A Social Problem Nobody Else Is Solving and Come Up With An Innovative Solution (30 minutes).

Kiva.org, microleander, audio interview with the co-founder Premal Shah (2010).

Daniel Smith, Project Coordinator for AguaClara, talks about about strategies, innovations, and their recent recognition as the Tech Awards 2011 laureate of the Intel Environment Award. They leverage gravity rather than costly and unreliable electricity to provide for the water treatment needs in small villages.

How are the constructs of social innovation and social entrepreneurship connected? Kriss Deiglmeier Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford University (blog).

Bill Drayton, Founder and Chairman, Ashoka. With the creation in 1981 of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Drayton put forward the notion that the individual person driving the change is worth supporting, rather than the organization itself. He contends that the most powerful force is a big idea in the right hands: those of an entrepreneur who is not only going to make the idea happen, but spread it across society.

William Foote Founder and CEO, Root Capital; Ashoka Global Fellow Root Capital is best-in-class in the new world of social investment. This nonprofit social investment fund has provided more than $120 million in credit to 235 grassroots enterprises in 30 countries in Latin America and Africa, with an astounding 99-percent repayment rate from our borrowers and a 100-percent repayment rate to investors.

Ask the Experts: How Social Venture Capital Is Changing the World JOEL SOLOMON, TIM FREUNDLICH, JOSH BECKER Commonwealth Club 9/09 Link (Realaudio required).

Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" (interview 11/12.

Articles

Excellent overview and definition by Stanford's Social Innovation Review's Martin and Oberg. Highly recommended.

Ten Non-Profit Funding Models from SSIR

Design Thinking for Social Innovation from SSIR by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, a global innovation and design firm. He is author of Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (2009), a newly published book about how design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation. Also by Jocelyn Wyatt, who leads IDEO’s Social Innovation group.

Books

World Change 2.0: Creating a blueprint for social transformation by Scott Sherman Transformative Action Institute. Highly recommended.

New Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World by Beverly Schwartz of Ashoka. http://www.ashoka.org/

Short book reviews on the topic.

Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century / edited by Alex Steffen 2006 McHenry Stacks HC79.E5 W676 2006 (newer edition 2011)

Muhammad Yunus: Building Social Business Ventures video preview (Amazon preview) is third book by Professor Yunus, following Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty, and is dedicated solely towards the concept of social business, its implementation, and its maintenance.(preview). Founder of Grameen Bank, which makes micro-loans all over the world, empowering people in many ways, not least of which to give them the option on not exhausting their local habitats in order to survive in the short term. Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize See related videos on right. He has a new book, and a new initiative to bring microlending to the US in order to wipe out predatory payday loans. sort video and 2005 MIT lecture video 2009 talk at Google (video).

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein. Oxford UP 2007. Co-author of Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know 2010.

Tactics of Hope includes linksTactics of Hope video offers a brief overview. Website with resources

The power of unreasonable people: how social entrepreneurs create markets By John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan Related books.

Rupert Scofield, Cofounder and president of FINCA International—a nonprofit microfinancing institution with 7,000 employees serving 750,000 customers in 21 countries, a social entrepreneur for 40 years. The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook 2011

Local Support and Funding

New! Entrepreneurship chair at UCSC

UCSC Center for Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive year-long program that could result in funding and company/ngo start-up funding.

Video overview of Santa Cruz entrepreneur and design support, including the Design and Innovation Center and the Pilot Project on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (contact student coordinator, larae@ucsc.edu. Center phone 420.6414). It hosts a business plan competiton.

See also Design Challenges and Scholarships and Funding for seed money and mentoring.