What is a Social Entrepreneur?
- Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.
- The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck. He or she finds what is not working and solves the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.
- Social entrepreneurs are both visionaries and ultimate realists, concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else. Their ideas are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement it.
- Social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profits - although that is an important component - especially when helping to create jobs in the communities where the intervention is implemented. Moreover, their work is targets not only immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change as well.
- Identifying and solving large-scale social problems requires a committed person with a vision and determination to persist in the face of daunting odds. Ultimately, social entrepreneurs are driven to produce measurable impact by opening up new pathways for the marginalized and disadvantaged, and unlocking society's full potential to effect social change.
This is my vision.
Can you see it too?
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