SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

• Social entrepreneurship


  A way of creating business that emphasizes a greater care for the people and natural resources employed
• Social enterprise


  A cause-driven business whose primary reason is to improve socio-economic objectives in the promotion of public welfare
• Social entrepreneur


  A person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems
• Social enterprise


  A cause-driven business whose primary reason is to improve socio-economic objectives in the promotion of public welfare
• Social entrepreneur


  A person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems
• Core elements of social enterprise


  • Main goal is not to earn profit, but to implement widespread improvements in society
  • Social enterprises seek to maximize profits while maximizing benefits to society and environment
  • Profits are principally used to fund social programs
• Qualities needed to succeed in a social entrepreneurial environment

  • Adaptability
  • Positivity
  • Resourcefulness
  • Team player
  • Effective and competent
  • Willingness to learn
• Prerequisites in involving the community

  • Presents greater opportunities
  • Gives trainings to improve quality standards
  • Provides variety and versatility to existing programs
  • Addresses issues on malfunctioning livelihood programs
  • Innovation through research
• Core of social entrepreneurship


  Framework for businesses to find their own success in the pursuit of helping others, constant source of motivation for employees, not for profit alone but with intent to help community and provide opportunities to alleviate way of life
• Existing local projects in social entrepreneurship (Pangasinan)


  • Lingayen's "Bagoong"
  • Dagupan's "Bangus"
  • Sual and San Fabian's dried salted fish
  • Dasol and Infanta's salt farms
  • Calasiao's "puto"
  • Bayambang's "buro"
  • Binalonan and Bugallon's vinegar
  • San Carlos City's bamboo craft and mangoes
  • Mangaldan's "tapa"
  • Mapandan's molasses sugar
  • Sto. Tomas' cornhusk bags
  • Bugallon's "duhat" wine
  • Urdaneta City's squash
  • Alaminos City's Hundred Islands
  • Balungao's goat trade
• Importance of social entrepreneurship


  • Presents greater opportunities to the community
  • Gives trainings to improve the quality standards of income generating projects and livelihood
  • Provides variety and versatility to already existing programs and income generating projects
  • Address specific issues on malfunctioning livelihood programs and policy models
  • Innovation through research
• Creation of social entrepreneurship

  1. Identify social problem

  2. Develop innovative solution

  3. Mobilize resources

  4. Scale the impact

  5. Sustain the enterprise
• Qualities needed to succeed in a social entrepreneurial environment

  • Adaptability
  • Positivity
  • Resourcefulness
  • Team Player
  • Effective and competent
  • Willingness to learn
• Social entrepreneurship's core is solely based on a framework for businesses to find their own success in the pursuit of helping others
• The essence of Social entrepreneurship is not for profit alone but it always carries with the intent to help the community and provide opportunities in alleviating a person's way of life
• Existing local projects in social entrepreneurship (Province and municipalities in Pangasinan)

  • Lingayen's Capital Town's OTOP product is "Bagoong"
  • Dagupan City's milkfish, the popularly known "Bangus"
  • Sual and San Fabian are known for their dried salted fish
  • Dasol and Infanta towns are where hundreds of hectares of salt farm are located
  • Calasiao is famous for its white gold, sweet, and bite-sized "puto"
  • Bayambang is fastly known by food enthusiasts because of its "buro"
  • Binalonan and Bugallon for their jugs of vinegar
  • San Carlos City is acknowledged for its bamboo craft and its luscious mangoes
  • Mangaldan is recognized as the place to go to when one craves tasty "tapa"
  • Mapandan is known for its molasses sugar
  • Sto. Tomas residents make bags and another décor from cornhusks
  • Bugallon chose to develop "duhat" (native blackberry) wine
  • Urdaneta City recently adopted squash as its favored product
  • Alaminos City takes pride in its tourism prospects because of the Hundred Islands National Park
  • Balungao is cashing in on its goat trade
• Criteria for assessing a social enterprise

  • Benefits enjoyed and equally distributed to majority of the Public
  • Increases Social awareness
  • Improves failing market Structure
  • Innovative and practical
• IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  ➤ Social entrepreneurship is important because it provides a framework for businesses to find their own success in the pursuit of helping others.

  
  

  ➤ He/she will be an inspirational source of impact

  
  

  ➤ He/she will respond to customers' needs

  
  

  ➤ To manage Relationships beyond economic purpose

  
  

  ➤ A more responsive business to create economic and social value

  
  

  A social mission to make the world a better place
• Elements of Social Enterprise Three core elements: 1. Created to provide benefits for a community. II. Creates opportunities so people can help themselves as well as others. III. Utilises sound commercial business practices to ensure its sustainability i.e. the business will naturally uphold and encourage environmental sustainability as well as ethical considerations.
• social entrepreneur seeks to implement widespread improvements in society.
• A rule of thumb is a social enterprise or social business is has specific social objectives that serve its primary purpose
• The Process of Social Entrepreneurship 1. Find an opportunity 2. Develop a business concept 3. Figure out what success means and how to measure it 4. Acquire the right resources 5. Launch and grow 6. Attain goals
• Adaptability

  able to adjust in any form of social environment, regardless of culture, race and traditions.
• Resourcefulness

  most of the time we are left with minimal resources (ie. funds and materials) to create income generating projects, we should be resourceful in maximizing what we have to obtain greater results.
• Team Player

  A social entrepreneur should be a good team player able to fit in with any group and realize his/her role in that organization for level and systematic operations able to go with the flow. Effective and competent

  possess the required knowledge and competency to produce prodigious results that are significant in attaining growth and development at the shortest time. Willingness to learn

  A social entrepreneur must be open to all sorts of comments, always aspiring to improve his/her craft