After reading the concepts and examples of the Arc Initiative and social enterprise, I found it is a great idea to have increasing number of people getting interested in those activities.

“Social entrepreneurs are society’s change agents, creators of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our world. By identifying the people and programs already bringing positive change, we empower them to extend their reach, deepen their impact and fundamentally improve society.”

From the website, I saw this description about social enterprise, and some people like Marie Teresa Leal and Inderjit Khurana, or Jim Fruchterman, John Wood, all of them are passionate about donating themselves to saving other people who are in hopeless condition, or people who are living with no hope at all. They are struggling to do what they are doing although they rare to see in the history; their spirit and impacts are much huger than people think by themselves.

Actually, the big environment for social enterprise is not ripe enough. Some people are ambitious enough, and they social value instead of wealth, but “a successful social entrepreneur”. Also, they have some similar properties like must be strategic, resourceful, and results oriented, which means they see what others cannot see, using limited resources to help as many people as they could, and unlocking society’s potential to effect social change.

From information above, I realized social entrepreneur has a great responsibility to the whole society, not only for their own interests, but also engaging everyone walking on a right way to higher stand of life.

Reference:

http://skollworldforum.org/about/what-is-social-entrepreneurship/