Social Entrepreneurship Graded A+
Jeff Skoll -First employee and president of eBay -Created to Skoll Foundation - Has awarded $400 million in 14 years
Skoll's Definition of Social Entrepreneurs Society's change agents, creators of innovations that disrupt
the status quo and transform our worl...
Social Entrepreneurship Graded A+
Jeff Skoll ✅-First employee and president of eBay
-Created to Skoll Foundation
- Has awarded $400 million in 14 years
Skoll's Definition of Social Entrepreneurs ✅Society's change agents, creators of innovations that disrupt
the status quo and transform our world for the better
Bill Drayton ✅-Popularized social entrepreneurship
-McKinsey consultant for 10 years, EPA assistant administrator
-Established Ashoka-Innovators for the Public (2006)
Ashoka Fellows ✅-Recipients of Ashoka financial support
-Support is investment in the individual rather than the idea
Greg Dees ✅-Father of social entrepreneurship education
-Convinced the World Economic Forum to embrace social entrepreneurship
-Helped fly social entrepreneurs to Davos to meet business titans
-Taught the first course on social entrepreneurship at Harvard
-Launched the Center for the Study of Social Innovation at Standford
-Active social entrepreneur (Among the poor Appalacians and advising philanthropists to revive
downtown San Jose)
Dees's Definition of Social Entrepreneurs ✅Change agents in the social sector who
-Create public value
-Pursue new opportunities (Key term)
-Innovate and adapt
-Act boldly
, -Leverage resources they don't control
-Exhibit a strong sense of accountability
Most widely cited definition
Susan B. Anthony ✅Social entrepreneur, campaigned for women's suffrage in U.S.
Vinoba Bhave ✅Social entrepreneur from India, disciple of Ghandi, founder and leader of the Land Gift
Movement, mentor to Drayton
Land Gift Movement ✅Bhave's project, redistribution of land to aid India's untouchables and landless
Dr. Maria Montessori ✅Social entrepreneur from Italy, developed the Montressori approach to early
childhood education
Florence Nightingale ✅Social entrepreneur from UK, founder of modern nursing, established the first
school for nurses, fought to improve hospital conditions
John Muir ✅Scottish born American social entrepreneur, instrumental in establishing the National Parks
System, established the Sierra Club
William and Catherine Booth ✅British social entrepreneurs, established the Salvation Army
Muhammad Yunus ✅-Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
-Founded the Grameen bank
-Micro-finance innovator
-Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Yunus's Definition of Social Entrepreneurship ✅-Business objective will be to overcome poverty or one
or more problems which threaten people and society
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