The Luminary Social Entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurship is finding its way into many different corners of education. InspirEngage began its competition, "Create Your Career", encouraging "young people   ages 11 to 16, to think about starting a social venture and how it could lead to a career," reported the  Ecopreneurist . Its a pretty sweet set-up that will allow kids to create great social ventures, and more so, it will ingrain in their minds the benefits of a new future, a future of social enterprise and social change.  To help young people get started with their social entrepreneurship, they have access to an ideas notebook, support from a  Live UnLtd  development manager in their area and £500 of funding, as well as access to a Skills BootCamp delivered by InspirEngage.  Social ventures can range from sporting activities, intergenerational themes or groups hosting recreational events.  Clothes recycling and re-design workshops, anti-gun crime merchandise, street dance classes and a t

Guess who's back! Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, duh na na da ni da de woo. That's right, I'm back. Today we've got some more on what social is. Bright B. Simons , stationed in Ghana, and writing for HBR, remarked: When social entrepreneurs say that they want to "work themselves out of a job" they are not making a glib statement to sound cool. They are merely stating the obvious — they want to fundamentally solve the problem that their solution is designed to address. He adresses one of the fundamental attributes of SocEnters – they want to solve problems – not keep that problem alive and milk it for all its worth. He goes on:  True, some commercial/traditional entrepreneurs invest substantially in research too. But only to assure themselves that someone will pay enough to make the development of the solution worthwhile. That the person paying the price sufficiently benefits is actually secondary. What matters is tha

Hey guys, Happy New Year to all, and I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza, or other rejoiceful holiday. I have been vacationing in Florida and in my fine home of Washington so I have not posted in a time. The good news is I am back in town and back in business, and I'l be posting more cool stuff soon. The even better news is, it looks like I will have some new writers joining me to create awesome content on the blog. I'll write again soon. Until then Merry Wishes, GS