Category:Entrepreneurship
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.org 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
Video:
Envisiongood.com has lots of interview with a variety of ppl/approaches, but lots of social entrepreneurs, including the Unreasonable Institute that mentors them.
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 (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.
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)
sample: Nick Moon & Martin Fisher
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
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein
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
Articles in category "Entrepreneurship"
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