Greg Dees: Father Of Social Entrepreneurship

• Introduction o Change is urgent o May would like to take action but feel overwhelmed, don’t know where to begin o Others build solutions, respond with creativity, energy and optimism o People building new organizations to address social problems, remain hidden o This book draws attention to their efforts o Citizen sector and social entrepreneurship o Change makers share one common feature – building platforms that unleash human potential o Same with what I learn in class – meaning ng social entrepreneurship, people with ideas and models, achieving societal impact additionally describe their function in society and shine a spotlight in their work, develop support systems to help them achieve significant social impact – social entrepreneurship

 Greg Dees – father of social entrepreneurship education

 Entrepreneurs improve the productive capacity of society and provide the creative destruction that propels economic change, social entrepreneurs do the same for social change, create public value, pursue new opportunities, innovate and adapt, act boldly, leverage resources they don’t control and exhibit a strong sense of accountability

 Social entrepreneurs have always existed, visionaries, humanitarians, philanthropists, saints, attention was paid to their courage, compassion and vision not to the practical aspects of their accomplishments

 The effect of emergence of business entrepreneurship

• Per capita income increases

• Created new wealth, new comforts, new patterns of living, and many new problems – abusive labor practices, environmental disasters, and exploitative pursuit of cheap minerals and energy sources

 Intimate relationship of the 2 forms of entrepreneurship is evident

• In response to problems created by the successes of business

• Financed by the philanthropy of industrialists and the pooled wages of their workers o When did it emerge as a global movement

 Social norms have evolved and changes was more dramatic, explosion of citizen activity - the establishment of millions of new social purpose

 Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg (Social Entrepreneurship: the case for definition) argue that the role of the social entrepreneur is to move society from a stable by inherently unjust equilibrium to a new, stable equilibrium that releases potential and alleviates suffering on a major scale

 Overcome apathy, habit, incomprehension and disbelief while facing heated resistance from those with vested interest, have to figure out how to make it happen

 System rejection

 Many ideas gets off to a good start but get watered down in the implementation

 It needs a force to drive it forward that can be counted upon to provide the care, energy, resourcefulness, and stubbornness necessary to navigate the idea throughout the system

 Must attract attention and funding, shift behavior and mobilize political will, continually improve the idea, take care of all the details no matter how long it