Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook by Debbi Brock. Porter B. Byrum School of Business, Wingate UniversityMarch 1, 2008 Abstract: As advocates for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship education throughout our careers, we have gathered a plethora of resources for both faculty new to the field of social entrepreneurship and seasoned veterans who blazed the trail in the early twenty first century. The first version of the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook was published in January 2004 and included twenty schools actively teaching social entrepreneurship courses. The expanded version is a culmination of the Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook prepared in partnership with Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Our efforts are to consolidate the number of resources available and to catalogue the growing cadre of academics around the world who are collectively building the field of social entrepreneurship.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 96 working papers series. The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur. Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. Recently, I wrote a column suggesting that, in the field of social change, we’re getting smarter. I went so far as to say that we may even be going through a new Enlightenment. I mentioned three ways we’re improving — employing new understandings about human behavior to get better results, using evidence more regularly to assess and guide problem-solving, and constructing integrated solutions to social problems. I also promised to highlight some other advances. Individuals with great ideas can often accomplish what government or large organizations can’t. Today, I’m focusing on a key innovation that underlies much of these gains: the recognition of the role played by entrepreneurs in advancing positive social changes. At times, it can be hard to believe that progress is happening. But the rhetoric of a political campaign is misleading.
What happened to spark these changes around the world? I have found this to be the case. Kailo. Changemakers. NFTE. Entrepreneurship - News - Times Topics. [Infographic] Nonprofits’ Impact on the Economy. Our infographic of the week, courtesy the Rebecca Gordon Group, delves into a topic that has been much-discussed this election season: nonprofits' impact on the economy. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, the nonprofit sector contributes 5.5 percent of the nation's entire GDP, or $751 billion worth of output, and employed, as of 2009, 13.5 million individuals, or approximately 10 percent of the country's workforce.
(Independent Sector has a fact sheet on its Web site that lays out the sector's impact in much greater detail.) Now, some would argue that statistics like these overstate the sector's impact, in that they fail to capture the extent to which the sector relies on tax-advantaged wealth transfers and the difference, in terms of the multiplier effect, between transfer payments and earned income. What's your take on that distinction? Share your thoughts in the comments section below... Shapers and the World Economic Forum in India! | World Economic Forum: Global Shapers. The first Regional Summit of Global Shapers in India and the World Economic Forum on India drew to a close last week with great success. Over 25 Global Shapers from across India, joined by guest Shapers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, participated in the day and a half Regional Summit.
The programme aimed to deepen their knowledge about the Global Shapers Community and had various opportunities for cross-mentorship with leaders from business, public sector, social entrepreneur and civil society. Shapers got to know each other better at an individual level, but also at the Hub level through Hub introductions and Hub Project sharing. This was the first Summit where Shapers had their own learning journey, and visited Apollo Hospital, the first international accredited hospital in India, where they were able to meet senior managers to learn how to grow from a small hospital into an important healthcare provider in Asia. Vera Schneider, Senior Knowledge Manager, Global Shapers Community.