What is Social Entrepreneurship?
In social entrepreneurship people work for social cause and just for earning profits. The social entrepreneurs are those who run and work for Non-Profit Organizations. These organizations purely work for the welfare of the nation by helping all the needy people.
About Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs are those who are willing to solve all the social problems which the people of the country are facing. There goal is just to help others and solve their issues without caring about there own profit. They can commit their whole life for welfare of the society by providing and spreading the solutions of social issues. They help the nation by making necessary and effective changes. You can also describe the social entrepreneurs as change makers. They visualize the problem and present the best solution by making changes in the plans which were not working earlier to solve those issues. They work for the problem until and unless it comes to an end.
What is the History of Social Entrepreneurship?
Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka, supported Social Entrepreneurship immensely in the age of 1980’s and 1990’s.Social entrepreneurship is widely spread in all over the history.
There are many famous personalities in the history that really proved their metal by serving the nation and making effective changes in the society. Some those personalities are:
* Florence Nightangle who was the founder and developer of nursing schools.
* Robert Owen who was the founder of cooperative movement.
* Vinoba Bhave who was the founder of India’s Land Gift Movement.
* John Muir who was the establisher of National Park System
* Susan B. Anthony who really fought for the rights of Women in the United States.
* Margaret Sanger who was the developer and founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Some of the Leading Social Entrepreneurs
It is not like the dynamic social entrepreneurs were just existing in past. There are so many existing social entrepreneurs who are really giving their heart and soul to serve the nation with effective changes and useful solutions for all the social issues of the people. Some of these social entrepreneurs are mentioned below:
Nicholas Chan: He is the co-founder on the Project Senso Ltd. Nicholas Chan belongs to Singapore.
Alan Khazei: He is the co-founder of National Leading Program City Year. Alan Khazei belongs to United States.
Ela Bhatt: She is the founder of SEWA. This is Self Employed Women Association. Ela Bhatt belongs to India.
Javier Gonzales: He fights for illiteracy and helps the illiterates in the best possible way. Javier Gonzales belongs to Columbia.
Linda Rottenberg: She is co-founder of a non profit organization ENDEAVOR. This organization helps the needy entrepreneurs. Linda Rottenberg belongs to United States.
Alvaro Davila: He is the owner of Micro Banking and fights for poverty. Alvaro belongs to Columbia.
Dr. Abraham M. George. He is the founder of TGF that is The George Founded. Dr. Abraham belongs to India.
Muhammad Yunus: He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded Grameen Bank and Micro credit.
Something about Ashoka-The Non-Profit Organization
Ashoka is a non profit global organization which helps in providing networks to social entrepreneurs. This organization supports the social entrepreneurs financially and helps them by providing modern solutions to their issues. This organization was founded by Bill Drayton of America in 1980.
Members of Ashoka: If you want to become a member of Ashoka then first of all you have to be a social entrepreneur, after that you would go through the painstaking and thorough selection procedure. Presently more than 1500 members of Ashoka are spreading the goodness of Ashoka everywhere. About 150 get elected every year in Ashoka.
One of the members of Ashoka is Veronica Khosa. Veronica Khosa has established a nursing centre Tateni Home Care Nursing Services. It provides all the Africans a home based care.
Do you want to become a Social Entrepreneur?
If you are really interested in becoming a social entrepreneur then some tips are mentioned below which can really help you.
1- Do you have the patience for become a social entrepreneur? This is the question you should ask yourself at first before giving a serious thought to social entrepreneurship. Patience is must for every Entrepreneur whether you want to become a social entrepreneur or a business entrepreneur.
2- Creating members for your organization- Creation of members is a highly important thing as you would be really tough to run the organization alone and getting members for a non-profit organization may slightly be tough as we are living in money making century.
3- Publicity of the organization- Publicity of any organization is must whether it is profitable organization or non-profit organization.
These are some of the factors you should keep in mind before starting a Social Entrepreneurship.
Some of the Educational Institutes who are the members of Social Entrepreneurship Programs
Nowadays many educational institutions are also taking keen interest in Social Entrepreneurship and becoming a part of it. Some of such Educational Institutions are mentioned below.
1- Alfred University
2- Clarkson University
3- Concordia University
4- Babson College
5- Georgetown University
6- Harvard University
7- University of Lowa
8- Colorado State University
9- Loyola College in Maryland
10- University of California, Los Angeles
Support for Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship plays a very crucial role not only for the welfare of the society but also in providing jobs to the job seekers. But social entrepreneurship cannot exist without the support of following factors:
Support of Social economic Networks
Support of Agencies of Economic Development
Support of Government and many more
Countries like France, Belgium, Italy and United Kingdom, Finland, Spain and Austria are supporting Social Entrepreneurship a lot.
Future of Social Entrepreneurship
For the golden future of Social Entrepreneurship the major thing which is required is Proper Funding of the Organization as money is highly important factor to run any organization. Government should provide proper financial support for these organizations as after all the social entrepreneurs are serving the people of the country.
At last we can conclude that Social Entrepreneurship is a great way of serving the nation which works for great cause so it deserves support as well respect from the world.
