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.

(nb the date at the start of each link is a reference to when it was added to the list, not its original publication date).

• 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
  • (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