SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORLD WIDE EXPERIENCES Masha Cheriakova: - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Masha Cheriakova: Social entrepreneur & Expert on Crowdfunding.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ‘WORLD WIDE EXPERIENCES’

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
• f 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