After reading a bit about social entrepreneurship I gathered that it is new type of entrepreneurship and is about fulfilling our social responsibility and social responsiveness. These organizations can be businesses, nonprofit, or government. The social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem that can be on a local or global scale and they have created a way to solve this problem.
A huge part of social enterprise is environmental awareness. This goes along with one of the social entrepreneurships I would like to mention. The Access Fund is a nonprofit organization formed to keeps climbing areas open and conservation of those areas. The Access Fund has helped with trail building, waste disposal facilities, and educational and safety signage for climbing areas. They work on federal, state, and local levels for support on climbing policy and decision making. The Access Fund has worked with the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, The Nature Conservency, and National Parks and Conservation Association.
If social entrepreneurship continues and more people become involved we shall become a more conscious and responsible society.
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Environmental awareness is a crucial part of social entrepreneurship as it is an aspect of life that affects everyone in society as well as generations to come. Another important area of social entrepreneurship is relieving poverty in developing countries and to transfer skills to individuals to help the country grow economically. A venture we are all familiar with through our class discussions is Honey Care Africa, which aims to increase the income of farmers in Kenya in order to promote economic development in the area. In particular HCA trains farmers to become commercial beekeepers, and in turn purchases the honey they produce at a guaranteed rate. When examining the work of HCA, it is important to consider what they have achieved in terms of the Millennium Development Goals. Set by the United Nations, the goals are a response to the world’s huge issues with development. In particular, HCA and its founders address the need to ‘eradicate poverty’, as well as the ‘promotion of gender equality’. Out of the 9000 rural beekeepers, 40% are women. In many African countries, it is extremely difficult for women to gain rights to farm land, and are often overlooked in the inheritance of land and as such means they can rarely make an income from farming.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this venture is particularly innovative. We know that an entrepreneur has a vision which by applying energy and passion results in a creative solution. HCA establishes a legitimate way for the farmers to earn income as well as generating sustainable economic development. This is an extremely innovative way to become socially responsible and should be an example of effective way to solve social development problems.
Another important avenue of social entrepreneurship is an effort to the spread of disease. A healthy populous is essential in order for a populous to thrive. Social entrepreneurs often make efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of developing peoples. Through this we can help to ebb and stop poverty as well.
ReplyDeleteOne such organization that is working to do this is the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health. This nonprofit organization has worked to develop a disposable syringe to use in the field. This syringe has been designed to be a one-time use syringe so that multiple uses won't occur. This will cut down on needle sharing and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis. Organizations like this one are instrumental in the fight to stop the spread of disease in developing countries.