Around the world, a new form of social change is taking place. In contrast to traditional NGOs, a core set of extraordinary individuals and organizations—called social entrepreneurs—are using business rigor to develop and implement economically sustainable, high-impact solutions to social and environmental problems. Social Profit Network is working with some of the most powerful social entrepreneurs in the world, helping to scale their solutions and maximize their impact.
They help social entrepreneurs:
• Become economically self-sustaining— even cash flow positive—as quickly as possible
• Use cash flow from successful social ventures to launch others
• Develop cost-effective production and distribution methods that maximize both social and economic profit
The social entrepreneurs they work with have:
• Turned traditional medical and technology development, distribution, and profit models upside-down, by making their products affordable for everyone, regardless of socioeconomic status
• Changed the way humans view, interact with and protect their surrounding natural environment by creating economically sustainable community engagement models
• Begun to change the way mainstream companies’ design and produce products in ways that don’t just minimize impact but actually contribute to natural systems.
Social entrepreneurs—the highest- impact investment on the planet.
Many people in the world have the common goal of improving the social and environmental state of the planet. Social Profit Network (SPN), believe that one of the most powerful ways to fuel world change is to put more power into the hands of proven social entrepreneurs. SPN defines social entrepreneurs as individuals and organizations that combine the passion of a social mission with business rigor, innovation and determination. The social entrepreneurs with whom they engage strive to make all of their projects economically self-sustaining, and, in many cases, cash flow positive. In their experience, those are the social entrepreneurs who have the greatest impact because they work more efficiently than any other group. Social entrepreneurs are, by definition, entrepreneurial—they have lean, agile, high-functioning teams that work quickly and intelligently to create and implement solutions.
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- Is this the way forward for the South African Social Enterprise/Entrepreneurial landscape?
- What are your thoughts/comments?
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