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Community Engagement and Impactful Social Entrepreneurship

Albert Chu-Ying Teo [email protected]

NUS Business School and Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Programme October 25, 2013

3 dimensions of social entrepreneurship

Sociality Innovation

Market orientation

Source: Alex Nicholls & Albert Cho (2006)

3 dimensions of social entrepreneurship

Source: Alex Nicholls & Albert Cho (2006)

•  Sociality – Solving social problem, & creating social value

•  Innovation – Being innovative, breaking patterns, & changing

systems •  Market orientation

– Being entrepreneurial, taking advantage of opportunities, accepting risks, being resourceful, & practicing leveraging

Principles of impactful social entrepreneurship

•  Principle 1 – Understand aspirations, dreams and

motivations of members of community


•  Principle 2 – Understand priority, not just needs, of

members of community – Community members have many needs, but

they have only one priority – Based on identified priority, then scope

specific social problem to address

Source: Nora Lester Murad (2011)


•  Principle 3 – Move beyond needs-based community

development – Practice asset-based community

development

Source: Alison Mathie & Gord Cunningham (2003)


•  Principle 3 – Needs-based community development does

not encourage community to be self-reliant – Needs-based community development

causes community members to see themselves as deficient and incapable of taking charge of their lives and community



•  Principle 3 – Asset-based community development

identifies and mobilizes community members’ assets, and creates opportunities

– Asset-based community development recognizes that community members’ capacities and their associations can be harnessed to build powerful community



•  Principle 3 – Examples of community assets

•  Individuals’ skills, expertise & knowledge •  Individuals’ life experience & stories •  Individuals’ personal income • Families’ history • Families’ customs, rituals & myths • Families’ cuisine • Families’ crafts & technologies



• Kinship ties & social networks • Citizens & business associations, &

cultural & religious organizations, & financial institutions

• Businesses (e.g., shops, factories & farms)

• Services (e.g., education, healthcare, transport, water supply & sanitation)



• Physical structures & spaces (e.g., houses, schools, libraries, religious buildings, hospitals, markets, shopping centers, cultural centers, recreation centers & parks)

• Natural assets (e.g., forests, mountains, wetlands, rivers, lakes, flora & fauna)


•  Principle 3 – Asset-Based Community Development

Institute, Northwestern University http://www.abcdinstitute.org/ http://www.abcdinstitute.org/publications/ http://www.abcdinstitute.org/resources/


•  Principle 3 –  Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource

Center http://www.inrc.org/ http://www.inrc.org/resources/publications/


•  Principle 4 – Obtain buy-in from community members for

planned intervention program – Buy-in ensures wholehearted participation in

intervention program by community members


•  Principle 5 – Obtain buy-in from stakeholders (e.g.,

government, businesses, non-profits) for planned intervention program

– Buy-in ensures contribution of resources by stakeholders to support intervention program


•  Principle 6 – Create conditions necessary for community

members to empower themselves and to live with dignity

– Community developer does not empower community members

– Community developer is only facilitator and catalyst for social change

Source: Pamela Hartigan (2008)

Social entrepreneurship in Singapore

•  Teen Challenge Enterprises http://www.teenchallenge.org.sg/our-centres/dare-centre/ – Activities

• House & office removal services – Beneficiaries

•  Ex-offenders, young offenders & recovering substance abusers


•  Circus In Motion http://circusinmotion.net/

– Activities • Social circus

workshops • Circus performances

– Beneficiaries • At-risk youth & children


•  O School http://www.oschool.com.sg/

– Activities • Street dance classes

– Beneficiaries • Out-of-school youth who are talented in

street dance


•  A-changin http://www.alteration.com.sg/

– Activity • Garment alteration

– Beneficiaries • Disadvantaged women

Social entrepreneurship in Taiwan

•  Y-Mu Plant Dyeing http://www.y-mu.com.tw/

– Activities • Bags, cushions, hats, stuffed toys, gift

items, etc., made from traditionally dyed fabrics

– Beneficiaries • Rural ‘community mothers’


•  Shihkang Traditional Food Store http://www.hakka-food.com.tw/

– Activities • Traditional Hakka dishes • Traditional Hakka cakes, rice dumplings,

sauces, etc. – Beneficiaries

• Rural ‘community mothers’


•  Taomi Nature Preservation and Ecotourism Association http://www.taomi.tw/

– Activities •  Eco-tours •  Bed and breakfast lodgings • Restaurants

– Beneficiaries • Rural community members

Social entrepreneurship in China

•  Shokay http://www.shokay.com/

– Activities •  Production of handcrafted accessories

& home items from yak down – Beneficiaries

•  Ethnic Tibetan villagers & disadvantaged ethnic Chinese communities

Social entrepreneurship in the Philippines

•  Rags2Riches http://rags2riches.ph/

– Activity • Production of handcrafted accessories &

home items from scrap fabric materials – Beneficiaries

• Women from poor urban communities

Social entrepreneurship in Vietnam

•  Bloom Microventures Vietnam http://www.bloom-microventures.org/vietnam/

– Activities •  Tours to rural Vietnam •  Transmission of money raised from tours to

villagers as loans – Beneficiaries

•  Villagers

Social entrepreneurship in India

•  Fabindia http://www.fabindia.com/

– Activities • Retail of textile-based products, home

products, organic food products & personal care products, that are handmade using traditional techniques

– Beneficiaries • Craft-based rural producers

Social entrepreneurship in India

•  Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad http://www.lijjat.com/

– Activities •  Production of papad, chapati, khakhra,

appalam, masala, vadi, gehu atta, & bakery products

•  Production of detergent powder, detergent cakes, & liquid detergent

– Beneficiaries • Women from poor communities

Social entrepreneurship: Essential steps to take

•  Understand the community you want to help – Needs & priority – Aspirations, dreams & motivations – Assets – Environment (e.g., economic, social, cultural,

political, legal, technological, & natural factors) – Stakeholders (e.g., community leaders,

government, non-governmental organizations, & businesses)


•  Based on community’s priority, scope specific social problem to address

•  Based on community’s aspirations & assets, identify potential social enterprise ideas, & opportunities that they present

•  Communicate ideas & opportunities to community •  Work with community to select most feasible idea •  Develop business plan for selected idea


•  Identify potential resource partners, & establish collaborations with them

•  Leverage resources of these partners – Financial resources – Equipment & technology – Supplies & raw materials – Human resources

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