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A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support ...
The increased involvement of corporations and governments may help to strengthen social entrepreneurship, as it may lead to policy changes and to the development of training programs and leadership development programs for social entrepreneurs. Simultaneously, research shows that as social entrepreneurs attempt to widen their impact and scale ...
This is an annotated list of social enterprises sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article, in alphabetical order. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters: For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:
For example, the Chilean Economic Development Agency CORFO has implemented programs like the Social Innovation Program and the Seed Subsidy for Flexible Asignation to Support Social Innovation Start-up Program. Through these programs they have provided access to seed capital to social entrepreneurs and financial support to incubators supporting ...
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital, often by founding humanitarian organizations. The main article for this category is List of social entrepreneurs . Subcategories
Social entrepreneurship in the United States (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Social entrepreneurship" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Social entrepreneurship also supports teens and gives them a way to flourish, to grow independently, [8] while continuing to find support from those around them. An example of this independence is the way that young Asian teens, whose ultimate goal is to attend and eventually graduate from college use the business skills that they have learned ...
In addition to pioneered efforts by institutions such as the Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (launched 1993) [44] and Said Business School's Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship (launched 2003), [45] INSEAD [46] and other universities now offer short-term programs in Social Innovation, and a few such as Cambridge ...