SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ‘ WORLD WIDE EXPERIENCES ’ Masha Cheriakova: Social entrepreneur & Expert on Crowdfunding.
What is Social entrepreneurship? Broad, vague, unclear and differ among countries. • SO WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE? • A biz that persues a social aim: benefits the society. social, ecological, sustainable. • A biz that makes profit & Reinvest back. • Measure success not by revenu but by social impact. (No million $ biz) • Often mixed up with CSR, BUT ITS NOT THE SAME! • Definition of a “ social entrepreneur” as a person who uses business to solve social issues.
Eco – system for entrepreneurship & SE • Social enterprises are an important driver for inclusive growth and play a key role in tackling current economic and environmental challenges, • Yet, only eight countries (Bulgaria, Greece, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden, and United Kingdom) have a policy framework in place to encourage and support the development of social enterprises.
Countries with specific legal forms or statutes for social enterprise
Eco-System : improve to enable (social) entrepreneurship to flourish.
Barriers of SE • poor visibility and recognition of the sector, • the constraints of current legal and regulatory frameworks, • limited financial resources, • difficult access to markets, • and the lack of business support and development structures, training, and workforce development.
SocStarter + Outbox • SocStarter: Training program for Social entrepreneurship in Belarus. First of its kind. Study trip to the Netherlands. • Examples: Mivia, Ties, Stuffmates. • Result: trained over 60 social entrepreneurs in Minsk. • OutBox: thinking outside the box: a training program to teach out of the box methods to Entrepreneurs and to connect them to corporations. • Lessons Learned in The Netherlands (less) & Belarus (more): • 1. Mental block : A state affair, not something that individuals should be doing. Distrust . • 2. Difficult for social entrepreneurs to really ask for money . • 3. Seeing it as a real business with real money and real partnerships . • 4. On the other hand the mentality to Think that people OWE you • 5. Sell a product first than your social mission • 6. Need more success stories! Like MaeSens • 7. COOPERATION!
US examples • Thermpod by Jane Chen, San Fransisco. An incubator that keeps low-birth-weight babies warm even when the electricity in hospitals and clinics fails. Now worldwide used & caused a distruption of world healthcare! • Freelancers Union by Sara Horowitz: Provides reasonably priced health insurance to the self-employed.
TOMs • Blake Mycoskie from Texas went on a trip to Argentina in 2006..…
EU examples • UK : (SE recognised entity, support from the government) • SE Formula: A cook + a problem = social enterprise • A cook: Jamie Oliver • A problem: Problem youth getting into drugs, criminality & alcohol because they dont have anything else to do, no ambitions etc. • Solution: ‘ Fifteen ’ : A 4* restaurant that employs + educates this targetgroup. • Sell: Amazing food, and only for funding uses the social mission. • The Netherlands : (Entrp in DNA, SE not recognised) • Triodos Bank : YES A Bank can be a SE! Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change. Openness and trust , they publish details online of every single organisation we lend to . They the only commercial bank that does this. People who put money in the bank select a sector to which the money will be borrowed to. • Green Taxi: Electro driven taxis in Amsterdam • Ctaste: provide a unique experience for all its guests ánd provide real jobs for people with visional impairment. • Peerby.nl: Borrow each other stuff. • BinBang.nl
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