This is a presentation I made for Professor Jack Kirkland's class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. For more information on feedback from Dr. Kirkland and the class visit my website: www.whenwedreamtogether.com
Social Entrepreneurship and Antioch College Mark Pomerantz
Presentation made to Antioch College Alumni Board and Community 2004 on Social Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ideas of Arthur Morgan as themes for the rejuvenation of Antioch College
[Overview] Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid - The Role o...Dragoș Tuță
As part of its mandate to guide and define the role of the private sector in poverty reduction and inclusive development, the UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) produced the “Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid” foundational report. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of 18 leading poverty experts, the report leverages an ecological approach to understanding barriers to poverty reduction. The report presents poverty as a complex web of accumulating and interacting disadvantages facing people living in poverty, which in turn, sustain and perpetuate a life of socioeconomic exclusion. The barriers are clustered into five broad categories: Early Developmental Barriers, Health Barriers, Skill Barriers, Social Barriers, and Decision-making Barriers.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Economic Development Conference 2016Dylan James
Formalising Indigenous Knowledge into drivers of our Economy. Upliftment of Khoi & San People: Using the Community Investment Companies to enable Indigenous Knowledge System in Economic Development.
Social Entrepreneurship and Antioch College Mark Pomerantz
Presentation made to Antioch College Alumni Board and Community 2004 on Social Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ideas of Arthur Morgan as themes for the rejuvenation of Antioch College
[Overview] Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid - The Role o...Dragoș Tuță
As part of its mandate to guide and define the role of the private sector in poverty reduction and inclusive development, the UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) produced the “Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid” foundational report. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of 18 leading poverty experts, the report leverages an ecological approach to understanding barriers to poverty reduction. The report presents poverty as a complex web of accumulating and interacting disadvantages facing people living in poverty, which in turn, sustain and perpetuate a life of socioeconomic exclusion. The barriers are clustered into five broad categories: Early Developmental Barriers, Health Barriers, Skill Barriers, Social Barriers, and Decision-making Barriers.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Economic Development Conference 2016Dylan James
Formalising Indigenous Knowledge into drivers of our Economy. Upliftment of Khoi & San People: Using the Community Investment Companies to enable Indigenous Knowledge System in Economic Development.
There are many NGOs in India that are working with corporate and public enterprises to promote CSR in India. One such renowned organisation has undertaken several projects through CSR to facilitate urban renewal.
The Social Enterprise (SE) Bill filed by Sen. Bam Aquino. It provides a nurturing environment for growth and burgeining of strong and innovative Social Enterprises as tools to reduce poverty. A Social Enterprise as defined in the proposed Bill, refers to an enterprise with the poor as primary stakeholder.
The presentation gives a brief description of what is social entrepreneurship, then describes 5 major socio-economic problems prevalent in India with the ideas about how to combat them rather than leaving societal needs to govt. These ideas were devised by social entrepreneurs.
Economic meltdown and management challenges of ng os a way forward b & wVIBHUTI PATEL
The global economic meltdown is hitting hard on various sectors of the world’s economy, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are also feeling the crunch.
International donors and the governments have cut budgets due to the global financial crisis.
experts fear that increasing unemployment and poverty has led to less food security and quality of nutrition, which in turn has put more stress on an already weaker sections of society.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
In the current job sphere, a career in NGO has started becoming more main stream. With strong governance structure, Akshaya Patra is one among the top 10 NGO in India for a prospective career option.
There are many NGOs in India that are working with corporate and public enterprises to promote CSR in India. One such renowned organisation has undertaken several projects through CSR to facilitate urban renewal.
The Social Enterprise (SE) Bill filed by Sen. Bam Aquino. It provides a nurturing environment for growth and burgeining of strong and innovative Social Enterprises as tools to reduce poverty. A Social Enterprise as defined in the proposed Bill, refers to an enterprise with the poor as primary stakeholder.
The presentation gives a brief description of what is social entrepreneurship, then describes 5 major socio-economic problems prevalent in India with the ideas about how to combat them rather than leaving societal needs to govt. These ideas were devised by social entrepreneurs.
Economic meltdown and management challenges of ng os a way forward b & wVIBHUTI PATEL
The global economic meltdown is hitting hard on various sectors of the world’s economy, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are also feeling the crunch.
International donors and the governments have cut budgets due to the global financial crisis.
experts fear that increasing unemployment and poverty has led to less food security and quality of nutrition, which in turn has put more stress on an already weaker sections of society.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
In the current job sphere, a career in NGO has started becoming more main stream. With strong governance structure, Akshaya Patra is one among the top 10 NGO in India for a prospective career option.
Building New Opportunity
Jerry Hembd, University of Wisconsin-Superior; Ron Hustedde, University of Kentucky; Sharon Gulick, University of Missouri Extension; Mary Simon Leuci, University of Missouri Extension
This interactive workshop will explore innovation approaches and strategies for regional development and, through a facilitated process, participants will be asked to share their experiences, challenges and approaches. Anticipated results include greater understanding of regional development, sharing of ideas, new learning and possibly creation of information networks.
1:30-3:00pm Monday July 27th
Global Goals: Every Achievement Counts (Section 3: Social Enterprise)Koh How Tze
“Most people want to do good, and believe that doing so will ultimately benefit everyone, including a company’s shareholders. But what’s been missing in recent decades is a clear compass to guide those in leading positions in our society and economy,” ~ Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
Imagine being a consumer, you walk into two different shops looking for a new pair of shoes. One is a traditional retail shop, the other one, as you walked in, a simple signboard caught your attention stating that “for every pair of shoes you bought, we will donate another pair to those who need it.” Which shop will you end up purchasing the shoes from if the quality and pricing are more or less the same?
“Charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. We can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. You change the system and people get out of poverty. It is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.” ~ Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
http://www.thesdgs2030.com
This is the introduction chapter extracted from the Manual “The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability” by Gaia Education. This is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
A new vision of Economics will not emerge from the economic powers and mainstream capitalist systems alone. It is not a vision to be realized only by economists or business interests. This new vision will emerge instead from the bottom up in country after country and village after village around the world as people learn to build and take control of their own economic futures, find new ways to measure their own sense of well-being, learn to manage how the Earth’s limited natural resources are to be protected and nurtured for future generations -- after all these are our and their commons -- establish new ways to distribute wealth and secure basic living standards and dignity for all, protect the health of labour, and develop a sense of unique cultural and regional identity not dictated by global trends and political strong arms.
Oxfam mentions Sote Hub in Challenges for Rural Enterprises & Rural Hubs Sote ICT
Oxfam mentions Sote Hub as one of the inspirational approaches to rural startup hubs for their new program "Empower Youth for Work” they just launched in four countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia. They mentioned our ideas:
1. Increase sustainability through selling services;
2. Cooperate with local government and donors through Memorandums of Understanding;
3. Help teams of young entrepreneurs to gain skills and prepare them for bigger investors;
4. Let students solve local problems or test new products;
5. Organize annual trade fairs and pitching competitions where young people can pitch to businessmen, local government and investors but don't have just NGO people in the jury;
6.Organize flexible peer-to-peer learning groups and tailor-made services for young people and girl groups;
7. Organize skype calls with outsiders and students abroad to open up minds and share expertise.
Social entrepreneur innovation to empower people | moladi | plastic formwork | Hennie Botes | Social entrepreneur | innovation | Appropriate technology | Small is Beautiful | Maslow |
During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, FOW ( Future of Work ) is the main positive societal impacts on Corporate Social Innovation (CSI) .
CSI integrate full range of capabilities and assets within innovative business models to achieve positive social impact while advancing the success and sustainability of the company.
the four pillars of CSI
Shared Value Creation (SVC).
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Strategic Philanthropy
Advocacy and Public Policy
CSI provides opportunities to create value for society as well as for companies, even during a time of crisis, in ways that will transform the FOW.
direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 threw the global economy into recession in the first quarter of 2020
The Impact on Industries
many industries took a hit to their bottom lines.
The top five industries impacted by COVID-19 were:
airlines,
gaming,
leisure facilities
auto parts & equipment
and oil & gas drilling
In addition, every industry impacted too as the following :
food service, education (from daycare to K12 schools to colleges), athletic clubs, sports teams, social organizations, and everyday businesses such as dry cleaners, retailers, manufacturers and others
Impact on the Individual: Remote work
individuals and families were also impacted significantly during the worldwide shutdown.
. On top of all this change, another new challenge for many was working from home switching to virtual interact with work.
The Need to Solve “First-order” and “Second-order” Impacts
first-order or “immediate” impacts are issues such as the rise of domestic violence, food insecurity, and economic issues.
The second-order impact or “ripple effect,” that donors that typically funded nonprofits and private charitable organizations faced challenges of their own when the people they served needed them most.
Low-wage, Essential Workers
Women: Childcare
DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT SURVEY
The Survey Study the response view on the post-pandemic workplace, technologies to remotely sense the health condition of people in the workplace (e.g. remote temperature and heart rate sensors) will become standard in offices.
Section 2: Corporate social innovation
These are important considerations in efforts to move forward to benefit all members of the community, across multiple dimensions of economic and physical health and potentially implemented through a more focused approach to corporate social innovation.
Shifting production lines.
To deal with shortages some companies shifted their production lines to meet new types or levels of demand, such as PPEs for example,
Eddie Bauer produced, donated and delivered at least 15,000 N95 and surgical masks in April to Washington State’s Department of Enterprise Services.
GAP Inc. also used their global supply chain to channel supplies.
Another example was Automakers Ford and General Motors accepted contracts from the federal government to produce 50,000 ventilators.
These companies shifted their core production lines
Whole systems change across a neighbourhood
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
Taking the Social Enterprise Route to Sustainable Development.pdfMr. Business Magazine
Let’s find out more on Taking the Social Enterprise Route to Sustainable Development:
1. Understanding Social Enterprises
2. Benefits of Social Enterprises for the World's Future
3. Why Social Enterprises Over Traditional Businesses?
4. Government Initiatives to Promote Social Entrepreneurship Among Youngsters
2. “Let us be dissatisfied until the
tragic walls that separate the
outer city of wealth and
comfort and the inner city of
poverty and despair shall be
crushed by the battering rams
of the forces of justice.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.--1967
3. Dr. King’s Solution for Disadvantaged Communities
In 1965, Dr. King called for a
$50 billion 10-year federal aid
program that included
business loans, housing
assistance, job training and
public works projects in
disadvantaged communities.
4. This investment, King said,
would help blacks rebuild
their own neighborhoods
and lead to a “spectacular
decline in school dropouts,
family breakups, crime
rates, illegitimacy, swollen
relief rolls, rioting and
other social evils.”
5. “Many white people
would be surprised at
how many Negroes
would choose to live
among themselves,
exactly as Poles and
Jews and other ethnic
groups do.”
– Dr. King, Playboy Magazine, 1965
6. Instead of investing in disadvantaged
communities & people, Government chose:
Food subsidies, public housing and vouchers,
and affirmative action programs
Mass and disproportionate incarceration of
minority population
Forced bussing outside of urban core
These efforts have contributed to:
The loss of urban resources due to integration
Divestment in the urban core
Exodus of the middle class from the urban Core
Almost 50 years of unchanged poverty rates
Breakup of the Black Family
Generational unemployment
Generational incarceration rates
Generational high school drop out rates
7. Empowerment: the missing
Component:
Government subsidies, housing, transportation
and neighborhood improvement projects in
historically disadvantaged communities are
worthy endeavors but they do little to reverse
generational cycles of poverty, unemployment
and related social ills.
More important, they do not empower the poor to
change their conditions. Everyday people must
receive the resources and inspiration to create
sustainable, vibrant communities.
8. How do we change negative
conditions in disadvantaged areas?
“You never change things by
fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build
a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
engineer, author and Inventor
9. Social Business: A New Model for
Empowering the Disenfranchised
Social businesses are enterprises created with
the intention to do good to and for people –
particularly people living in disadvantaged
areas. Social entrepreneurism and social
businesses can bring positive change to lives
and distressed areas while addressing basic
social needs such as food security,
unemployment, safety and health disparities.
Noble Prize-winning author, Muhammad Yunus’ pioneering
work in micro-lending and social business development,
such as the partnership with Dannone Yogurt serves as an
excellent model for urban revitalization on a massive scale.
10. Social Business Enterprise
Model for Sustainable Communities
A regional Social Business model should begin with food. The first
step is to choose a distressed area – preferably a “food desert” – an
area with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. This area
should already be slated for development under one of President
Obama’s initiatives, such as Promised Neighborhoods, Sustainable
Communities, Strong Cities/Strong Communities (SC2), Federal
Food Financing (FFI), etc. The goal is to develop a project that can
tap into established momentum and applicable federal resources.
SUPER-SIZED COMMUNITY SOCIAL BUSINESS VENTURE
A Social Enterprise Headquarters (center) should be developed on
vacant or abandoned property in target area. Land should be cleared,
cultivated and prepared to grow food on a scale large enough to
supply area homes, urban grocers, schools, public agencies
(retirement homes, juvenile centers, etc.) within the designated area.
11. Social Business Enterprise Zone
Model for Sustainable Communities
Immediate Inner-city Job Creation
The Center should have processing, packaging and food distribution
capabilities. Food should be processed and packaged for local,
national and even international distribution through Internet sales.
Resident within the designated area should be trained and hired to
grow, package, process, distribute and market the food.
Creating the Brand, Developing the Consumer Base
Products should be marketed under a chosen Social Enterprise
brand. Campaigns, similar to Girl Scout Cookie promotions, should
be created to convince consumers, organizations and churches that
loyalty to the “brand” equates to saving lives, helping children,
reducing crime, supporting urban revitalization, the creation of
sustainable jobs and the eradication of poverty.
12. Social Business Enterprise Zone
Model for Sustainable Communities
Social Business Co-opts
Modeled in the spirit of the Grameen-Danone venture, major
corporations can develop mini-ventures, or social business co-opts,
in areas where their services are not currently offered. Companies
such as Home Depot and Whole Food Markets can receive tax
subsidies and other incentives for providing management, supplier,
distribution, marketing and sales services for the spin-off enterprises
within the Social Business Zone.
Micro-Lending & Innovative Financing
Micro-loans and other sources of public/private funding can be
offered to trained managers so they can become owner/operators of
social business enterprises within disadvantaged communities.
13. Social Business Enterprise Zone
Model for Sustainable Communities
Social Business 101
For long-term success, a strong educational component must be
inculcated within the model. Perhaps partnerships with local
universities or community colleges can be arranged so adults can
receive GEDs or business certificates at the Center during non-
working hours. The center should also offer on-site training programs
so workers can build skills that will help them transition from laborers
to managers to owner/operators of burgeoning social enterprises.
Serving High School drop outs and at-risk Youth
In order to reverse generational poverty and unemployment, on-site
educational and training programs must also be established for high
school drop outs and at-risk youth. Partnerships with the education,
Juvenile Justice and judges is paramount to make this work.
14. In-Prison Prep
The Social Business Enterprise should also redress societal
norms with disproportionate negative impact on low-income
communities. A system should be created to help ex-offenders
play empowering roles as providers, employees and even social
entrepreneurs. A partnership with the Missouri Correctional
system should be established that offers in-prison social
business training to promising, soon-to-be-released offenders.
Once released, they immediately report to the social business
center where counseling, mentoring and motivational programs
are mandatory. Opportunities will be provided so they can
further studies, advance skills and move into the vibrant world of
inner-city social business as a productive participant.
These prisoners-turned-entrepreneurs can serve as emissaries,
mentors and role models for at-risk youth.
15. Extending the Brand
Keeping in mind that the social business mission is to create
enterprises that serve social needs. Therefore the brand of the
Social Business Center an be extended to include other non-
food related items and services such as childcare, healthcare,
weatherization services and the manufacturing of clean energy
and efficient products and material.
If the project is established in an area already slated for
revitalization (new housing, public transit, clean and renewable
energy projects, “smart grid” work, etc.) it can becomes an
additional stabilizing force in the targeted neighborhood. If
federally-subsidized projects are already underway, the Social
Business model can become the ongoing nucleus that
empowers residents and keeps sustainable economic activity
circulating within the boundaries of the designated area(s).
17. What’s needed:
Implementation steps include
* An aggressive community outreach campaign
* Alignment with an area under development
* Purchase or procurement of vacant land
* Development of massive food production, processing,
packaging and distribution system
* Buy-in from local, state and federal policymakers
* Educational, business & correctional system buy-in
* Creation of social business co-operatives
* Buy-in from civic, social and faith-base organizations
* Development of a solid consumer base
* Major marketing and promotional campaigns
18. An Implementation Opportunity:
At the end of the year (2011) the Obama Administration is
expected to launch the “SC2 Pilot Challenge” -- an initiative
with a total investment of $6 million to approximately six cities.
The effort will support the development and implementation of
comprehensive and unique economic development plans.
The initiative provides an opportunity to create a wide-ranging
and sustainable economic plan based on the principles of
social business and social entrepreneurism.
This approach as part of the SC2 Pilot Challenge can lead to
the creation of implemental models for sustainable jobs in
long-neglected urban areas and social benefit in alternative
education, prison recidivism, neighborhood revitalization and
community ownership.
19. For more details and information
Visit:
www.whenwedreamtogether.com
What is When We Dream Together:
When We Dream Together Inc. (WWDT), is a local nonprofit dedicated
to delivering the inspiration, information and resources necessary to
create vibrant urban communities of opportunity. It was
founded on the theory that sustainable change in troubled urban areas
is only possible when everyday individuals are respectfully
engaged, informed and empowered to make that change.