Social Entrepreneurship is one of the new hot kids on the block. There is a lot of discussion and plenty of disagreement about what SE is and specifically a definition. However, the one that I like for it’s simplicity is:
Social Entrepreneur – A person who tries to solve social problems using entrepreneurial skills.
This was from a TEDx video by Andy Stoll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LVa9pb-n8)
In researching this topic I have found multiple useful links and wanted to capture them in a single location so it would be easy for me to find them at a later date. So this was the starting point for this blog and I will update it with new links as I find them.
- The date at the start of each link is a reference to when it was added to the list, not its original publication date.
- There is no intended sort order for the resources listed
- As far as I am aware all the resources listed are in the public domain and free to access. If you are the content owner and this is not correct, please let me know and I will remove immediately.
I trust you will find the follow links useful.
- Water Waste Management
- (Jan 20) Dutch company Hydraloop won the award for the Best of Best at the electronic technology trade show CES2020 in Las Vegas on 9 January. Hydraloop developed a water purification system that can easily be placed in homes and recycles up to 85 percent of all domestic water used – https://www.dutchwatersector.com/news/hydraloop-wins-best-of-best-award-at-worlds-largest-electronic-show-ces2020
- Awards for Social Entrepreneurs
- (Jan 20) Australian Social Entrepreneurs of 2019 – https://www.socialchangecentral.com/top-stories-australian-social-entrepreneurs-of-2019/
- (Jan 20) The Third Sector Awards: Celebrating the Sector’s Most Extraordinaire – https://thirdsectorawards.com.au/finalist-2019/
- Food waste
- (Jan 20) The entrepreneur stopping food waste, “I was not fully aware of how big of an issue in society food waste really is” – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50974009
- Recycling
- (Jan 20) Amsterdam has a bubble barrier to catch canal plastic – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/bubble-barrier-amsterdam-canal-plastic-pollution-waste-river-ocean-sea/
- (Dec 19) How to rehabilitate old oil supertankers. The enormous ships that ferry crude oil around the world embody the fossil fuel era and its legacy of pollution. But can they be transformed to be good for the environment? – https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190627-turning-oil-supertankers-into-green-power-stations
- If you cannot get to the hospital why not get the hospital to come to you – Hospital Trains
- (Dec 19) The Transnet-Phelophepa trains are free, mobile healthcare clinics that travel to areas of rural South Africa – https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/transnet-phelophepa_healthcare_train.htm
- (Dec 19) The Lifeline Express, or Jeevan Rekha Express, is a hospital train that runs in India that began in 1991 – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline_Express
- Changing employee attitudes
- (Oct 19) Millennials demand wellbeing clause in wage contracts – https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/personalfinance/millennials-demand-wellbeing-clause-in-wage-contracts/ar-AAIOxiK
- Changing corporate attitudes
- (Oct 19) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: ‘Capitalism as we know it is dead’ – https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/10/23/20927076/marc-benioff-trailblazer-book-salesforce-ceo-capitalism
- (Sep 19) The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase … What Exactly? Milton Friedman asserted it is profit – https://hbr.org/2012/04/you-might-disagree-with-milton
- (Sep 19) Link to the article by Milton Friedman “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” – http://umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf
- (Sep 19) Purpose before profit: How ethical investment is transforming Australian – https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/company-news/purpose-before-profit-how-ethical-investment-is-transforming-australian-retail/ar-AAHfMxB
- (Sep 19) Indra Nooyi: Achieving Both Financial Growth And Purpose – Performance with Purpose – https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2017/11/21/indra-nooyi-achieving-both-financial-growth-and-purpose-at-pepsico/
- (Sep 19) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says The Business Of Business Is Improving The State Of The World – https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2017/01/07/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-says-the-business-of-business-is-improving-the-state-of-the-world/
- (Aug 19) Corporate leaders scrap shareholder-first ideology – https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49400885
- B Corporations – independent certification for businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
- (Mar 19) Global B-Corporation web site – https://www.bcorporation.net/
- (Mar 19) Australia New Zealand web site – https://bcorporation.com.au/
- Social Media and Social Entrepreneurship
- (Mar 19) Here are 5 ways how digital marketing will help your social enterprise change the world – http://anthillonline.com/5-ways-digital-marketing-will-help-your-social-enterprise-change-the-world/
- (Mar 19) Expert Says Social Entrepreneurs Have Social Media Secret Weapon – https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2018/04/05/expert-says-social-entrepreneurs-have-social-media-secret-weapon
- (Mar 19) Social Media For Social Entrepreneurship – https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/249379
- (Mar 19) #Trashtag: The online challenge cleaning places up – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47536861
- Social Intrapreneurship
- (Mar 19) 2014’s Most Valuable Employee: The Social Intrapreneur – https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2014/01/24/2014s-most-valuable-employee-the-social-intrapreneur/
- (Mar 19) Cultivating the Social Intrapreneur – https://ssir.org/articles/entry/cultivating_the_social_intrapreneur
- (Mar 19) Can social intrapreneurship add value to your business? – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/connect/better-business/business-sustainability/social-intrapreneurship-value-to-business/
- (Mar 19) Ashoka, a global organization leading the way to an “Everyone a Changemaker” world – https://twitter.com/ashoka
- (Mar 19) League of Intrapreneurs, hosted the first ever global awards for social intrapreneurship in 2013 – https://twitter.com/SocIntLeague
- (Mar 19) Gib Bulloch, established NFP within Accenture, Be the Change You Want to See in Your Company (paraphrase Gandhi) – https://youtu.be/5KYWJdU9Ltw
- Funding links (there may be others in specific sections – just search for fund)
- (Feb 19) The Australian government Social Enterprise Development and Investment Funds initiative (now managed through 3 fund managers links are in the following) – https://www.jobs.gov.au/social-enterprise-development-and-investment-funds
- (Feb 19) Grant money/seed funding for start-up social enterprises – https://communitydoor.org.au/resource/grant-moneyseed-funding-for-start-up-social-enterprises
- (Feb 19) Accessing appropriate capital is essential for all social enterprises – https://www.socialtraders.com.au/about-social-enterprise/social-enterprise-finance/
- Social Change Central
- (Feb 19) The home page for an Australian centric resource hub for social enterprises – https://www.socialchangecentral.com/
- (Feb 19) There blog has some great articles – https://www.socialchangecentral.com/blog/
- (Feb 19) Social Enterprise Funding 101 – https://www.socialchangecentral.com/social-enterprise-funding-101/
- Taxation
- (Feb 19) Using tax relief to fund innovation in your business. This is general advice and not specifically SE, but still interesting to get you thinking – https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14157/347137/using-tax-relief-to-fund-innovation-in-your-business
- ColaLife – Innovative Ideas
- (Jan 19) ColaLife won awards for their clever packaging that fitted medicine packs into Coca-Cola crates. This article from 2013 reports on their success and awards https://www.wired.com/2013/03/colalife-piggybacks-on-coke/
- (Jan 19) But by 2014 success overtook them and they needed to pivot in a positive way https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/09/colalife-charity-coke-crate-medicine
- Radio shows and Blogs
- (Jan 19) Australian Radio National – This Working Life – The Jan 22nd show talked to 2 social entrepreneurs at www.Keepcup.com and One Good Street https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/this-working-life/
- Bill Drayton
- (Jan 19) – Everyone a changemaker – https://www.ashoka.org/sites/ashoka/files/innovations8.5x11FINAL.pdf
- World Economic Forum
- (Dec 19) In Rome you can swap plastic bottles for metro tickets (5c discount per bottle). This is the article – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/rome-recycling-plastic-bottles-subway-fare And here is the associated video – https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/1322760481245980/
- (Jan 19) The Global Shapers Survey 2017 (Youth Matters) – a survey of 30k+ influencers of the future (35 and under) – http://www.shaperssurvey2017.org/
- (Feb 19) Pakistan wants to solve its energy crisis with renewable power – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-hPdWsTWBc
- (Feb 19) Nearly two billion people in india, pakistan and china will soon be at risk of flash floods – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzYhRP-zCH4
- (Feb 19) Indonesia’s rivers are choking on plastic trash – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PivbHg-H9M
- (Feb 19) India is giving away clean cooking fuel to combat deadly indoor air pollution – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_iDRXBRJxg
- (Feb 19) This drone delivers books to Indonesian children – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKgfdMBEw8
- (Feb 19) This school in Pakistan uses solar power to run night classes – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/at-pakistan-s-slum-school-child-labourers-can-get-a-formal-education-at-night/
- (Feb 19) Pakistan has planted over a billion trees – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/pakistan-s-billion-tree-tsunami-is-astonishing/
- YouTube
- (Jan 19) General YouTube search on SE – https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=social+entrepreneurship
- (Jan 19) Michael Porter (he of Porters 5 forces) makes the case for the role of commercial businesses (and profit) in Social Entrepreneurship (not just Government and not-for-profits) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIh5YYDR2o
- Twitter
- (Jan 19) #socialentrepreneur link – https://twitter.com/search?q=%23socialentrepreneur
- (Jan 19) #socent link – https://twitter.com/search?q=%23socent
- Sydney Morning Herald
- (Jan 19) Why Millennials won’t invest like their parents…this is about the convergence of purpose and profit – https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-3-trillion-next-generation-why-millennials-won-t-invest-like-their-parents-20181220-p50nhz.htmlhttps://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-3-trillion-next-generation-why-millennials-won-t-invest-like-their-parents-20181220-p50nhz.html
- Harvard Business Review
- (Feb 19) A New Approach to Funding Social Enterprises. Some interesting thoughts and idea generators – https://hbr.org/2012/01/a-new-approach-to-funding-social-enterprises
- (Jan 19) Home page for articles on Social Enterprise – https://hbr.org/topic/social-enterprise
- (Jan 19) Interesting article on Impact Investing “do well by doing good” – https://hbr.org/2019/01/calculating-the-value-of-impact-investing
- Definitions and Introduction Articles
- (Jan 19) Oldie but goodie from 1998 – The Meaning of “Social Entrepreneurship”, J. Gregory Dees et al – http://www.redalmarza.cl/ing/pdf/TheMeaningofsocialEntrepreneurship.pdf
