Class 20: United Nations and Social Enterprise

Everyone knows the United Nations, which is an intergovernmental organization, established on 1945. It aims to maintain the world peace, alleviate stressful international situation and tackle the conflict. How about social enterprise? Social entrepreneurs are

“individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems”.

In my point of view, the Social Enterprise assists the United Nations to solve lots of problems that the United Nations missed. The social enterprise always creates solutions to make the world better or innovate approaches to solving social problem. One example of Social Enterprise is Arc Initiative, which is

“a unique program built upon the partnership of business leaders, faculty, young professionals and students.”

This program discards the conventional business model and tries to build an innovative local business to solve the social problem by educating children the elementary business knowledge and foster their leadership. By doing this, social enterprise can improve some local particular social problems which are United Nations unable to tackle.
All in all, both the United Nations and Social Enterprise make the contribution to the world, and they are all necessary

sources:
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/social_entrepreneurship_the_case_for_definition/

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7252825/Ashoka_studentkit_12-15-12_final.pdf

http://www.schwabfound.org/content/what-social-entrepreneur