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The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship

J. Gregory Dees
Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

The idea of "social entrepreneurship" has struck a responsive cord. It is a phrase well suited to our times. It combines the passion of a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination commonly associated with, for instance, the high-tech pioneers of Silicon Valley. The time is certainly ripe for entrepreneurial approaches to social problems. Many governmental and philanthropic efforts have fallen far short of our expectations. Major social sector institutions are often viewed as inefficient, ineffective, and unresponsive. Social entrepreneurs are needed to develop new models for a new century. Read...
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What is Social Entrepreneurship?

By Tim Draimin, Executive Director

In a constantly changing world, one dynamic trend is the growth of "social entrepreneurship". Social entrepreneurship is an evolving phenomenon, which includes practitioners in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors (and also, but less visibly, the public sector). For example, it embraces:

Non-for-profit sector people with a strong problem solving and results orientation who are doing one or more of the following:

	Judiciously exploring how to diversify their not-for-profit’s income using market means to generate "surplus" that can be applied to their mission and address financial sustainability, or produce collateral benefits like employment
	Linking community well-being challenges with community economic development
	Creatively seeking opportunities to fulfill their organization’s mission in non-traditional ways, sensibly balancing risk/reward
	Selectively borrowing and experimenting with ideas and tools from the for-profit sector
	Seeking problem solving and supportive partnerships with the private sector;

For-profit sector people who are thoughtfully examining how business fulfills community and social responsibilities, and who are doing one or more of the following: Read...

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The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs offers nonprofits a new strategy for dealing with marketplace realities. It's called social entrepreneurship, and it combines the passion of a social mission with a business-like approach to the marketplace. It enables nonprofits to find - and keep - a productive balance between doing good (mission) and paying for it (money). Through its unique array of tools, process and approach, the National Center works with nonprofits to:

	Enhance their skills in research, planning and marketing, thereby improving their ability to evaluate opportunities, make informed decisions and serve more clients more effectively.
	Identify and expand their most effective and needed programs, eliminate truly unnecessarily or duplicative programs, and ;selectively add new services to meet identified community
	Earn more income from fees, contracts, product sales, etc., reducing their reliance on "granted" revenue from government and philanthropy, and achieve greater financial sustainability.
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Hauser Center Working Paper No. 15

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Transformation

by Sarah H. Alvord, L. David Brown, and Christine W. Letts (November 2002)

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Social Entrepreneurship (PDF)
Leadership That Facilitates Societal Transformation -- An Exploratory Study
Sarah H. Alvord, L. David Brown, and Christine W. Letts