{"id":93,"date":"2011-11-24T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melodyhan\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-11-25T01:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:15:52","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melodyhan\/2011\/11\/24\/93\/","title":{"rendered":"“Marrying mission and money in one business can be tricky”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social entrepreneurship is a topic that I find very interesting yet is a bit confusing. A social entrepreneur has a social mission. They are people who recognize social problems and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. The companies that social entrepreneurs create are called social enterprises.<\/p>\n

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An article on New York Times discuss what is important in a social enterprise. Some important points touched upon in the article include: moneymaking, venture capital, and hire creatively. I want to focus on moneymaking because this question aroused in class. The article mentions that moneymaking is not something to apologize for in a social enterprise. This also separates a social enterprise from an NGO. It is striving to complete a social mission while earning money at the same time. Some companies look like they are social enterprises but do not fall in the category of one. Tobacco giant Phillip Morris<\/a> is not a social enterprise even though it donates money to social causes because it is not addressing any socioeconomic challenge.<\/p>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

“A Fresh Look at Defining Social Entrepreneurship \u00ab Razesquire.”\u00a0Razesquire<\/em>. Web. 24 Nov. 2011. <http:\/\/razesquire.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/11\/a-fresh-look-at-defining-social-entrepreneurship\/>.<\/p>\n

Moran, Susan. “Some Ways to Get Started as a Social Entrepreneur.”\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. Web. <http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/23\/business\/smallbusiness\/23sbiz.html?pagewanted=all>.<\/p>\n

Powerpoint: Class 20, Social enterprise and non-profit management, Nov 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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