Monday, April 15, 2013

The Perfect Social Entrepreneurship Examples Involve Being In Business For The Benefit Of Others

By Camille Nicholson


When we think of entrepreneurs, we think of a businessman or a businesswoman and that the entrepreneur is in it for the profit margins, the bottom line, the monetary profit that he or she will make after all the expenditures are paid and so on and so forth. One rarely ever thinks of an entrepreneur who's not in it for the money, yet that is not entirely true. There are two forms of entrepreneurs, the business and social entrepreneurship examples .

Businesses can be divided into two margins, business entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. We will dig deeper into the social entrepreneurship side, but it's very important to distinguish the two and be able to identify a business entrepreneurship to a social entrepreneurship. We will also mention clearly defined examples of social entrepreneurship.

Social entrepreneurship are those people who go into business for the specific reason of identifying and correcting a social problem be it in their immediate community or their country at large or the society as a whole. Social entrepreneurs might make monetary profit along the lines of being in business, but their main objective is to benefit society as a whole, to improve the quality of life of those people in their societies or communities.

One of the most recognized forms of social entrepreneurship happens in South Africa, where South Africans celebrate and recognize the Shoprite Checkers woman of the year. This event recognizes a woman who goes into self employment because of the high unemployment rates in South Africa, but she not only finds a way to generate income for herself only, but shares her entrepreneurship skills with the unemployed people of her community.

This prestigious event serves to celebrate and to say thank you to those women in the South African society who through their own lack and obstacles, rose to overcome their challenges and in the process enriched the lives of their communities thus playing a significant role in bringing positive changes. Ms Nyeleti Mushwana hails from Tzaneen in Limpopo and she single handedly built the very first black owned hotel in the province and she hired the uneducated poverty stricken members of her own community. She trained them on how the hospitality business is run, and she then became responsible for providing many homes with a better life as those homes now had a bread winner.

One of the greatest and practical examples of social entrepreneurship is a company called ASHOKA. ASHOKA is a business that has dedicated itself to identify, help and provide social funding to social entrepreneurs around the world. As we speak this excellent company has assisted 2145 entrepreneurs in 73 countries of the world.

The Nelson Mandela's children foundation is a very popular form of social entrepreneurship. HIV and AIDS have unfortunately left millions of children orphaned in South Africa, and the foundation founded by the Republic's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela is there to provide a loving, protective, conducive and secure environment in which children who belong to no one have found a place they can call home.

If everyone's definition of social entrepreneurship examples went broader than just how much monetary profit the entrepreneur can make, our global community would a better place to live in. We would all realize that effecting positive social changes to our communities would ultimately lead to the wealth that we all so desperately want.




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