Grameen story

Poor people are bonsai people. There's nothing wrong with their seeds, but society never gave them the proper base to grow in. All it takes to

get poor people out of poverty is for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once

the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

(Muhammad Yunus)

Social business is a new form of capitalism and a new kind of enterprise based on the selfness of people. It is a kind of business dedicated to solving social, economic and

environmental problems that have long plagued humankind - hunger, homelessness,

pollution, ignorance.

1. The business objective is to overcome problems that threaten people, not to maximize profit.

2. The company will attain financial and economical sustainability.

3. Investors get back only their investment amount.

4. When the investment amount is paid back, profit stays with the company for expansion and improvement.

5. The company will be environmentally conscious.

6. The workforce gets market wage with better than standard working conditions.

7. Do it with joy!

In present interpretation of capitalism, human beings engaged in business are portrayed as one dimensional beings whose only mission is to maximize profit.

But human beings are not money making robots.

Social entrepreneurship relates to a person. It describes an initiative of social

consequences created by an entrepreneur with a social vision. This initiative may be a

non-economic initiative, a charity initiative, or a business initiative with or without

personal profit.

Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most

pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues

and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social

entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system,

spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps.

Signs advertising residential property for sale line a street in south London in April 2008. Photo: AP

Nigerian women pick out rocks and dirt from rice found on the ground outside of the food storage warehouse. Photo: Jane Hahn

A drawing by the Swiss artist Olaf Breuning in response to the destruction of our environment and nuclear crisis in Japan

Greenpeace attempts to increase environment awareness

Critical caricatures about health care in US

Man sits outside a lean-to he calls home outside of Yerevan. Photo: Tom Vartabedian

Echoing Greenfinalist weekend

Anuradha KoiralaMaiti Nepal

entrepreneurship

strategic planning

management

marketing

finance

leadership

communities and rights

research methods

law and justice

media and social change

teaching entrepreneurshipto disadvantaged

Established business knowledge may be

counterproductive in social business

It may lead you to think in wrong directions, because profit-making business

has different goals

1. You must stand behind the line and you can not switch places with other participants.

2. Each person must touch each object.3. Passing ball opens the round and closes the

round.4. If one object falls, you lose the try.5. You choose, which objects and in how long time

will you pass to other corner.

PRINCIPLESOF NON-FORMAL

EDUCATIONinclusion

learners control

of his or her learning process

learnerorientation

learning by

doing

steaming fromparticipants

realities

no single truthno universal

formulas

self-evaluationlearning from

each otheractive

participation

To gather knowledge in social entrepreneurship area and form competencies essential for

initiation and development of social entrepreneurship activities by non-governmental

non-profit organizations.

To develop our abilities to analyze obstacles and opportunities within a social sector and identify

potential strategies to effect change in the sector.

To learn practical tools for analysis, idea and business model generation.

To foster participation, initiative, creative and leadership skills and sense of being responsible

about our communities and environment.

To facilitate exchange of experience about various self-financing and fundraising strategies among

third sector organizations in Europe.

To develop intercultural competence.

To develop plans for social ventures with added mission and financial value to our organizations

and communities.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL

CYCLE

1. Develop skills that may contribute to entrepreneurial

behavior

4. Assess the opportunities and ideas

2. Examine opportunities to fulfil needs and to

solve problems

3. Generate ideas to satisfy opportunities

6. Plan and prepare venture

5. Use all available resources to evaluate

opportunities and ideas

This project has been funded with support from the European Union. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the European Commission and cannot be held responsible for any use which may made of information contained therein.