SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

	.	Rodrigo Baggio Explains CDI Brazil's ICT Centres for Social Change CDI has established more than 750 telecentres in South American 'slums', empowering and inspiring pe...
_

"... the work of a social entrepreneur. 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. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship)

Meet some organisations and people that stand out in promoting social entrepreneurship globally.

VIDEO > About Social Entrepreneurship (Skoll Foundation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5LI_WcosQ

ARTICLE > Social Entrepreneurs go Mainstream (Ode Magazine, 03/2009) http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/61/social-entrepreneurs-mainstream

VIDEO > Muhammad Yunus, 'Banker to the Poor', visionary and innovator on mega scale, founder and manager of Grameen Bank and its growing family of social venture businesses, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The work of Yunus and Grameen echoes a theme among modern day social entrepreneurs that emphasizes the enormous synergies and benefits when business principles are unified with social ventures. http://dotsub.com/view/bfe96112-5af3-40e9-bedd-e80e2137f5a6 (47:26min, english language, dozens of subtitles)

ORGANISATION > Ashoka International, offers living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries www.ashoka.org

PROJECTS > www.Changemakers.net - Stories and Competitions for finding and supporting new solutions for pressing sustainability issues