Professional Documents
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Definition Matrix
Prepared by S. Dev Appanah & Brooke Estin
1) Social entrepreneurs are reformers and revolutionaries, as described by Attack Education Social purpose Create social/ Social purpose
Schumpeter, but with a social mission. They make fundamental changes in the underlying business environmental business
way things are done in the social sector. Their visions are bold. They attack the causes Health-care value
underlying causes of problems, rather than simply treating symptoms. They Community Hybrid
often reduce needs rather than just meeting them. They seek to create systemic Economic development Local action w/ organisations
changes and sustainable improvements. Though they may act locally, their development banks potential for
actions have the potential to stimulate global improvements in their chosen global
arenas, whether that is education, health care, economic development, the Environment Hybrid improvement
environment, the arts, or any other social field. Organisations
Arts Large scale
2) In addition to innovative not-for-profit ventures, social entrepreneurship can Shelters
include social purpose business ventures, such as for-profit community starting Systemic
development banks, and hybrid organizations mixing not-for-profit and for-profit businesses change
elements, such as homeless shelters that start businesses to train and employ
their residents. The new language helps to broaden the playing field. Social Sustainable
entrepreneurs look for the most effective methods of serving their social improvements
missions.
Sources
“The Meaning of “Social Entrepreneurship”
J. Gregory Dees
Original Draft: October 31, 1998
Reformatted and revised: May 30, 2001
Definitions by Organisations/ Individuals Innovation Social Business Impact Organisational
Mission model structure
SOURCE:
1) http://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur
2) Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBdIMhTOT4
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus. Pg. 24 & 32
SOURCE: http://www.se-alliance.org/about_vision.cfm
SOURCE: http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/
SOURCE:
“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Addressing Critical Gaps In Risk-Taking Capital For Social Enterprise”
Working Paper By Jed Emerson, Tim Freundlich And Jim Fruchterman With Loren Berlin And Keely Stevenson
SOURCE: http://www.newprofit.com/about_model.asp
SOURCE: http://www.schwabfound.org/whatis.htm
SOURCE:
1) http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/whatis.asp
2) http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/social_entrepreneurship_the_case_for_definition/
SOURCE:
1) http://www.seepnetwork.org/
2) http://communities.seepnetwork.org/edexchange/node/89
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Definitions by Organisations/ Individuals Innovation Social Business Impact Organisational
Mission model structure
Financial
bottom-line
SOURCE: http://www.redf.org/
2) The term social entrepreneur is currently used to mean very different, albeit Social Generate own
interesting things. Some use the term social entrepreneur to refer to “social innovator income to
innovator” (i.e. an individual that is addressing a critical social problem in a support social
particularly effective or innovative way). Others, including NESsT, use the term mission
social entrepreneur (or social enterprise) to refer to a CSO (civil society
organization) that uses entrepreneurial, business activities as a means to generate Non-profit
income and/or otherwise further its mission impact (e.g., to create employment enterprise
opportunities for underserved constitutes). A social enterprise is also referred to
as a “nonprofit enterprise,” “social-purpose business,” or “revenue generating Social purpose
venture” that operates with a “double bottom line” of generating financial return business
while simultaneously advancing a social mission.
Revenue
generating
venture
Double Bottom
Line
Financial return
w/ social
mission
SOURCE: http://www.npgoodpractice.org/
SOURCE: http://www.virtueventures.com/
SOURCE: http://www.3se.co.uk/index.php/Section1/page6.html
1) Social enterprises are profit-making businesses set up to tackle a social or Social or Profit-making
environmental need. Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to environmental businesses
have social objectives, but social enterprises are distinctive because their social or need
environmental purpose is central to what they do. Rather than maximizing Generate profit
shareholder value, their main aim is to generate profit to further their social and Social or to further social
environmental goals. environmental and
purpose is environmental
2) By combining a public service ethos with a commercial focus on efficiency and central to goals
good business practice, social enterprises are able to deliver on the things that activities
really matter, whilst remaining both independent and sustainable. Commercial
Public service focus
ethos
Independent
and sustainable
SOURCE: http://socialenterpriseambassadors.org/content/view/183/76/
SOURCE: http://www.socialventures.com.au/content/Dictionary_of_Terms
SOURCE: http://www.lssaa.wisc.edu/kecip/socentdef.html
SOURCE: http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/
The following is the number of times each element is highlighted in each definition:
• Innovation – 11 times
• Social Mission – 17 times
• Business model – 15 times
• Impact – 12 times