Social entrepreneurs are individuals who tackle social issues and create solutions to problems in society. Just as business entrepreneurs create new industries, social entrepreneurs develop new approaches to address social problems. Two examples of early social entrepreneurs are Susan B. Anthony and Florence Nightingale. Susan B. Anthony fought for women's suffrage in the United States, which led to women gaining the right to vote. Florence Nightingale established the first nursing school and helped professionalize nursing despite facing societal resistance as a female in her field.

1. Tay Han Dong
Lim Chuan Yu
Wong Chuan Kai
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2. What is Social Entrepreneur?
• Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s
most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling
major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

3. Why Social Entrepreneur?
• Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act
as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and
improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to
change society for the better.
• Business entrepreneur create new industries but social entrepreneur comes
out with new solutions to solve social problems.

4. Social Entrepreneurs
oSusan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony is probably the first social entrepreneur. Her upbringing as a
Quaker inspired her to take up the causes of abolition, temperance and
women's rights in the United States. She was disappointed when she realized
that her ideals of equality among all people were not the majority view. She
eventually focused her energy on the women's suffrage movement and her
efforts resulted in the adoption of the 19th amendment, guaranteeing
women's right to vote. Anthony's work led to a gender revolution in which
women fought for their right to be treated equally, not just at the polls, but in
all aspects of their lives.

5. Social Entrepreneurs
oFlorence Nightingale
Unlike most women brought up in Victorian England, Florence Nightingale
received a rigorous education. Her decision to become a nurse was frowned on
by her family as beneath her abilities. She persevered anyway and fought to
improve hospital conditions during her service in the Crimean War. Nightingale
adapted her success in the military when she returned home and eventually
established the first school for nurses. Her achievements brought respect for
the profession and she is now considered the founder of modern nursing.

6. Credits of sources
• https://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur
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• http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/whatis/whatis_ss_2.
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