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See also Activism and Entrepreneurship and Third World Development and maybe even Environmental JusticeGlobalization, , Colonialism,Consumption, and Sustainability

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.

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

The Skoll Foundation is dedicated to fostering social entrepreneurs. Good resources

Skoll Foundation definition and discussion

An overview/editorial by a student

Social Entrepreneur Corps has summer internships in Central America video

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

Additional Organizations

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

http://www.kiva.org/ video on micro-finance 2008

http://www.ashoka.org/

http://www.worldchanging.com/

More organizations

Video:

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 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).

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.

The New Heroes (ucsc owns: DVD2816)

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.."

Audio

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

Books

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

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

Local Support and 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