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Finding funding: Investing in Socially good projects
We at KookyPlan recognize the importance of capital flows and funding for socially-minded projects. Please visit our resource: Investing in socially good projects
What is "Social-Entrepreneurship"?
- about applying practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are marginalized and poor.
- a term that captures a unique approach to economic and social problems, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines.
- grounded in certain values and processes that are common to each social entrepreneur, independent of whether his/ her area of focus has been education, health, welfare reform, human rights, workers' rights, environment, economic development, agriculture, etc., or whether the organizations they set up are non-profit or for-profit entities.
- It is this approach that sets the social entrepreneur apart from the rest of the crowd of well-meaning people and organizations who dedicate their lives to social improvement.
Traits of social entrepreneurs:
- A pragmatic visionary who achieves large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these.
- Combines the characteristics represented by Richard Branson and Mother Teresa
- an unwavering belief in the innate capacity of all people to contribute meaningfully to economic and social development
- a driving passion to make that happen.
- a practical but innovative stance to a social problem, often using market principles and forces, coupled with dogged determination, that allows them to break away from constraints imposed by ideology or field of discipline, and pushes them to take risks that others wouldn't dare.
- a zeal to measure and monitor their impact. Entrepreneurs have high standards, particularly in relation to their own organization’s efforts and in response to the communities with which they engage. Data, both quantitative and qualitative, are their key tools, guiding continuous feedback and improvement.
- a healthy impatience. Social entrepreneurs don’t do well in bureaucracies. They cannot sit back and wait for change to happen – they are the change drivers.
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Green & clean tech
Clean-tech and environmentally conscious investing
Development 2.0: collaboration in the development sector
Conventional wisdom is that the development sector, unlike the private sector, is the natural place for "radical collaboration" to occur. The reality is, however, often quite different. Just like in the private sector, traditional business models and practices in the development sector are being challenged by the emergence of wikinomics. We are currently witnessing the birth of a whole new bunch of start-ups that have embraced peer-to-peer, openness and collaboration at the heart of their business models, thereby challenging traditional players such as established NGOs and international financing institutions. Kiva, Change.org and Changemakers are well-publicised examples.
More on this topic:
See also the discussion on NGO 2.0 on the Wikinomics blog
Links from KookyPlan
Social Entrepreneur links
companies of note:
Socially Responsible Concepts:
Sustainable concepts
companies of note:
Bottom of Pyramid marketing concepts
organizations we support
see our list of Social Entrepreneurship organizations
Forum discussions
- Productivity vs. creativity: Does the culture war impact social entrepreneurs?
- Case Study: Gumball Capital
- Nonprofits / For-profits Partnerships
- Social Ventures in the Competitive Business World
- Converting from Non-profit to For-profit Status
- Choosing a Social Franchise: Pros and Cons
- Should your organization go "hybrid"?
- Emerging Nonprofit / Business Partnerships in India
- Profit for a Purpose
- Social Franchise: Is It For You?
- Nonprofits of the Future: NGOs in 2016
- Equity Investment in UK Social Enterprise - How??
- Should You Launch A Profit-Making Business?
- Social Fusion: Going Corporate
- Social Fusion: Hybrid Capital and Sustainability
- Nonprofit vs. For-Profit
- Creating a Hybrid For-Profit / Non-Profit Social Enterprise Structure
- Stop or Go: Is Social Enterprise Right for My Organization?
- How to Build a Social Enterprise, Part 2
- Benefiting from Social Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses in India
- Cross-Sector Partnership
- Business Social Ventures - Critical Path for Global Impact?
- Social Edge — last modified 2007-01-28 01:07
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