Children’s Defense Fund – Social Entrepreneurship
Nov 20th, 2010 by chrischoi
Marian Wright Edelman is the perfect example of a social entrepreneur. Founder and president of the Children’s Defence Fund, also known as CDF, Marian sets her aspirations on improving child care and protecting children all over the world who are disabled, homeless, abused, and neglected. By adopting a mission to create and sustain social values, she wants to ensure that every child has a “healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life.” With this vision in mind, she embarks in the risk of being a Social Entrepreneur by founding CDF.
CDF fits every criteria and definition of what a social entrepreneurship should be. From recognizing and pursuing the new opportunities to serve Marian’s mission, to exhibiting heightened accountability to the constituencies served, CDF is able to act boldly without being limited by the resources currently in hand. Financially, CDF is supported strictly and “primarily by corporate grants and individual donations” and does not require government funds or charity donations to sustain itself.
