This document discusses social entrepreneurship and social enterprises. It defines social enterprises as benefit organizations that address social problems and have measurable social impact without complete reliance on philanthropy. Social entrepreneurs are committed to building financially sustainable businesses focused on alleviating poverty, serving the underserved, or helping the environment. Examples are provided of social enterprises addressing issues like access to electricity, healthcare, cooking solutions, and lending. The document also discusses impact investing, challenges social enterprises face in scaling impact and becoming commercially viable, and how to define an impact model for a social business.

1. Social Innovation &
Social Entrepreneurship
Alina Adams
@AlinaAd
EIA Portugal 2019

2. Global Social Benefit Institute
• Accelerating entrepreneurship to
end global poverty and protect the
planet
• Served over 1000 social
enterprises Across the Globe
• Millions of lives impacted in health
care, education, clean water,
sanitation, clean energy and
livelihoods

3. What are Social Enterprises?
Social Benefit Organizations that have Social Impact
• Product or service with measurable social
impact
• Addresses a problem that affects many
people
• Not completely reliant on philanthropy
• Can be for profit or non-profit

4. Who are Social Entrepreneurs?
Entrepreneurs that are committed to building a
business that:
# Is focused on poverty alleviation, the
underserved and/or the environment
# Integrates its impact and business model
# Is capable of attaining financial
sustainability
# Measures and scales its social impact

5. Social Innovations
Social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the
existing solutions

6. Global Problems
EducationPoverty Hunger
Health
and well-
being
Water Sanitation Gender
Equality
SustainabilityEnergy

7. 4Bpoor people worldwide
2.5Bpeople lack improved sanitation
1.1Bpeople lack safe drinking water
1.6Bpeople live off-grid and 1Bon an unreliable grid
3Bpeople cook on open wood fires
3Bpeople are excluded from financial systems

8. “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give
a fish or teach how to fish.
They will not rest until
they have revolutionized
the fishing industry.”
- Bill Drayton
Founder of Ashoka

9. Social Impact
Net Impact
Output
Outcome

10. Juabar: Access to Electricity in Tanzania

11. Jacaranda Health: Reducing maternal and
neonatal mortality in Kenya
Deploying innovative solutions in over 60 hospitals

12. DonaDora: Clean, efficient cooking stoves in
Guatemala

13. iNukaPap: Mobile lending platform in Kenya

14. Impact Investors
Creating positive social benefit and
financial returns.
Potential profit for impact investors could range
from between $183 billion and $667 billion over
the next ten years.

15. Asset Management

16. Assist great entrepreneurs
developing products and services for
the 3 billion people in the bottom half
of the world’s economic pyramid

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18. Impact Investor Concerns
Commercially viable
Scalable
Modest margins
Long times to scale and high risk add up to a
tough proposition for investors.

19. Becoming a Social Entrepreneur
You don’t have to go to Africa to
make a Social Impact

20. Having a product that works
is not enough
Need to validate the commercial viability and
scalability of the business model

21. Defining Impact Model
What is your mission?
What problem are you solving and for who?
Who are the beneficiaries?
How are you changing their lives?
How can you sustain or grow the impact?
How can you measure the impact?

22. Sustainable Practices
Avoid
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Recover
Dispose

23. Innovation Across the Value Chain

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