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Page 1: Creating Contributors

Creating Contributors

Ideas for social entrepreneurs

Jim Randall - raconteur

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Today

-What is a social entrepreneurship and why consider becoming one?

-How to evolve into a social entrepreneurship

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My hope for today

You leave here with ideas that change the way you think and ideas to think about

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Social Entrepreneurship

Idea

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“Social business entrepreneurs can help make the market work for social goals as efficiently as it does for personal goals”

-Muhammad Yunus

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Social Entrepreneurship

Context

A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change

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Social Entrepreneurship

Context

A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change

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Entrepreneurial Principles

Self-sustaining

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Entrepreneurial Principles

Focus

What business are we in?

What is our purpose?

An explicit social issue

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Entrepreneurial Principles

Resources

Seek mutually beneficial partnerships

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Entrepreneurial Principles

Innovation

An opportunist- exploits change

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Entrepreneurial Principles

Results

Pay us for our results not our mission

Measuring the un-measureable

Be explicit about success

Transparency and accountability

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Why?

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Community social needs

Fewersocial

service agencies

Traditional sources of $ being reduced

Increased needs

Need for innovation

Forces of Change

Businesses and governments

seeking strategicpartnerships

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Opportunities

To take a bigger view of our community of common interest and ask:

-Who may benefit from our services and our success?

-Who has resources that could benefit us?

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Opportunities

Partnerships

The services we provide our client may be similar to services offered by others in our community or in other communities.

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Opportunities

Our success may benefit others in the community – governments, businesses or other social agencies

Reduce the impact of their operations on the community

Have a positive impact on their bottom line

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Opportunities

Not –for-profitsThe services we provide may be of interest to

those who are not in need of charity and capable of paying for those services at prices above our costs.

For-profitsThe services we provide may be of value to those

who can’t afford to pay - so find a sponsor

 

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Becoming a co-operative community social entrepreneurship does not mean forgoing our existing sources of resources but enhancing our current relationships and developing others

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Why?

For those we serve

Keep operating

More self-sustaining

Engage more community resources

Generate innovative ideas and initiatives

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How do we evolve into Social Entrepreneurship?

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1. Determine the business we are in, what is our purpose?

2. Select our explicit issue and research how we will differ from others

3. Determine interest

4. Develop our story

5. Identify those people and organizations that will benefit from our success and what we will contribute to them

6. Tell our story and engage employees, donors, businesses and the community in generating ideas and initiatives

7. Determine the criteria of success and how we measure it

8. Develop initiatives that are results oriented

9. Business case initiatives

10. Assign responsibility

11. Constantly measure and report on our progress and celebrate our successes

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Your Story

• Moves an idea from

• Your head

• To your heart

• To your gut

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Jim RandallMy Role

Help leaders:

develop a focus,

create a clear and compelling story,

tell the story to engage employees, donors and the community in developing ideas on how to progress,

create initiatives that further progress and put in place systems to measure our progress

My contributionThe processes and knowledge engaging people and building

relationships

My InterestWorking with social entrepreneurs

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Your options as a socialentrepreneur

Your options as a socialentrepreneur

OptionsOptions

charitycharity

do nothingdo nothing

socialsocialentrepreneurentrepreneur

enhanced relationships enhanced relationships with with funding partnersfunding partners

develop initiatives that are develop initiatives that are self-sustaining self-sustaining

think and act like think and act like an entrepreneuran entrepreneur

sself-sustainingelf-sustaining

baitbaitcharitycharity

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Your Ideas

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Jim Randall-raconteur

Phone: 604-537-7951

[email protected]

www.raconteur.ca