What Does a Social Entrepreneur Do?

Social Entrepreneurs are a newly named group. For Chinese readers, "social entrepreneur" is still a new term.

Social entrepreneur

Social Entrepreneurs are a newly named group. For Chinese readers, "social entrepreneur" is still a new term.

Chinese name

Social entrepreneur

Foreign name

Social Entrepreneurs

Definition

Social support investment or direct investor

Condition

Ability to innovate, start a business and change the status quo

Related people

Hema Bulo

Provenance

How to change the world

Field

sociology

David Bernstein, author of How to Change the World, defines social entrepreneurs as "people who are driven by ideals, creative, question the status quo, explore new opportunities, refuse to give up, and build an ideal world." Social entrepreneurs are Looking at social issues from a business perspective, and using business rules to solve problems, his purpose is not just for profit. Social entrepreneurs are mostly the promoters and operators of social welfare organizations, such as Jeru, who has set up a 24-hour helpline for homeless children in India, Hosa, which has set up a care network for AIDS in South Africa, and Luo, who has set up a solar power generation system for poor herders in Brazil Sa.

For a social entrepreneur project, there are several questions that must be answered by every outstanding social entrepreneur:

(1) What is the social problem I want to solve?

(2) What is my solution?

(3) What is the feasibility of the solution (financial, technical, economical, legal, cultural, social, managerial)? How original? How persistent is it? What is the impact?

In the whole process, in addition to the ideal passion leading the way, more is the planning of reality: to what extent do we understand reality? What is the reality?

Two things make social entrepreneurs respectful:

(1) Emphasize the reality of ideals: When Yunus betrayed traditional banking theory and promoted small loans to the poor, what he did was not just to help the poor themselves, but to make a better society A realistic exploration.

(2) Emphasis on non-profit. Social enterprises are not the same as traditional commercial enterprises, but they are also different from non-profit organizations (NPOs). It emphasizes the realization of broader social values by means of commercialization.

The British government's definition of social enterprise is: " A social enterprise is a business organization. Its main goal is a social goal, and its profits should be mainly used to support investment in social goals or directly invest in the community, rather than Invest for the benefit of shareholders and everyone. "

When the average entrepreneur evaluates the operating results with profit, the social entrepreneurs use the social changes caused as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of the operation. So far, there is much debate about the definition of social entrepreneurs. Some people want to limit the name to a completely self-sufficient organization, and the source of funding is entirely derived from transactions. Others want to include organizations that work with governments and receive grants or sponsorships.

Entrepreneurs start a business for profit, and social entrepreneurs should start a business based on the solution of social problems. They are driven by ideals, are creative individuals, have a spirit of continuous pioneering and innovation, and shoulder Corporate responsibility, industry responsibility and

The qualities, skills and values that a social entrepreneur should have

· Entrepreneurial ability: social entrepreneurs can discover those underutilized and idle resources to address those unmet social needs;

· Innovative ability: By organically combining traditional or unrelated practices, social entrepreneurs can create new services, new products and new methods to solve social problems.

The ability to change the status quo: Social entrepreneurs can reform the companies they lead, and they can rejuvenate a dying company. Most importantly, they can change them by unlocking the potential of the communities and people they serve.

To become a qualified social entrepreneur, you should have the following four conditions:

1. Under the conditions of environmental protection, energy saving, protecting resources, not breaking the ecological balance, protecting the safety of workers' lives and their immediate interests, it has created benefits for society and society.

Social entrepreneurs often face demands for funds, resources, and personal abilities during the start-up period. Institutions that help these social entrepreneurs solve these problems smoothly and survive the start-up period are beginning to emerge in China. They usually provide social entrepreneurs with skills training, financial support, project incubation, and all possible follow-up support. The well-known related institutions in China include Youcheng Entrepreneur Poverty Alleviation Foundation, Chuangsi, Xinmiao Asia.

The "Entrepreneurship Coffee" project of the Youcheng Entrepreneur Poverty Alleviation Foundation aims to enlighten the social entrepreneurship of college students, and on the basis of cultivating entrepreneurship, it advocates focusing on and solving social problems. Entrepreneurship Coffee cooperates with Peking University School of Economics to establish social entrepreneurship network credit courses, introduces Youcheng's social resources into college classrooms, shares the quality education resources of Peking University to the society, and expands the social and entrepreneurial horizons of students participating in cooperative colleges across the country.

The mission of Transist is to discover, cultivate and expand the intersection between technological innovation and social innovation. Transcend provides early stage investments of USD 10,000 to USD 1 million for start-ups, and also incubates entrepreneurs and projects from the earliest stages of customer development, product market matching and market entry, and provides them with comprehensive capacity building, including Acceleration plans, professional consultants and celebrity mentors. Creative Ideas founded the Yishe Project in 2009, and is committed to creating a high-quality community for emerging social entrepreneurs in Greater China. So far, Genesis has invested in dozens of companies such as Weibang, DemystData, and Unitech. Its community has more than 100 social entrepreneurs, active in education and employment, environmental energy, agricultural poverty alleviation, fair trade, health care, elderly care and other fields. ^[1]

By the way: social entrepreneurs can have different translations. Entrepreneurs means "man" in French. Chinese is usually translated as "entrepreneur". If the original meaning of the word is used directly, it would make sense to translate it as "career", and it can be in line with the familiar institutions and other terms. However, entrepreneurs have another unique meaning: discovering demand, creatively organizing various factors of production, and meeting this demand efficiently and cost-effectively. This kind of meaning, this kind of special talent, I am afraid that China's huge public institutions before the in-depth reform, I am afraid it will be difficult to become a "career".

On May 24, 1943, the 400th anniversary of the death of Nicholas Copernicus. 180 outstanding politicians, scientists and educators from around the world gathered in New York, USA, and promulgated "Top 10 Celebrities with the Most Contributions and Widest Influence in the World Today". The list includes scientist Einstein, philosopher Dewey, and entrepreneur Henry · Ford and others, among them a Chinese, is Yan Yangchu.

Yan Yangchu (1890-1990) was a native of Bazhong, Sichuan. He studied at the American Missionary School in Chengdu in the early years. He was admitted to St. Paul's University of Hong Kong (the predecessor of the University of Hong Kong) with the first place at the age of 23. According to the regulations at that time, if he joined the British She won a scholarship of 1,600 yuan, Yan Wan refused, citing "this is too expensive for the Chinese". Three years later, in 1916, Yan Yang went to Yale University for further studies in the United States, and then went to Princeton University to obtain a master's degree.

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