Social entrepreneurship
About applying practical, innovative and sustainable
approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are
marginalized and poor.
A term that captures a unique approach to economic and
social problems, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines grounded
in certain values and processes that are common to each social entrepreneur,
independent of whether his/ her area of focus has been education, health,
welfare reform, human rights, workers' rights, environment, economic development,
agriculture, etc., or whether the organizations they set up are non-profit or
for-profit entities.
It is this approach that sets the social entrepreneur
apart from the rest of the crowd of well-meaning people and organizations who
dedicate their lives to social improvement.
