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Training Social Entrepreneurs: Resources
Columbia Foundation: "The Columbia Foundation funds training for social entrepreneurs -- people who use their entrepreneurial spirit and drive to help develop ideas, communities and social programs. Experts at building networks and generating innovative ideas, they use skills normally associated with making a profit to help make a difference!"
Social Edge: Skoll's Social Edge provides some fantastic resources for those interested in "Training Social Entrepreneurs".
- Cambridge University, Judge Institute, MSt in Community Enterprise
- Columbia Business School, Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship
- Draper-Richards Foundation
- Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
- Global Social Benefit Incubator
- Harvard University, Harvard School of Business, Social Enterprise
- Kauffman Center Clearinghouse on Education
- NYU Stern, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship
- Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Center for Nonprofit
- Oxford University, Said Business School, Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship
- Pace University, Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Center for Social Innovation
- The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
- The Manhattan Institute
- The School for Social Entrepreneurs (UK)
- Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition
- Colorado State U - Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program
click here to go to Social Edge.orgThe Laurel Centre is providing training for social entrepreneurs. Here is an article written up in "therecord.com"
"People who run social organizations rarely think of themselves as entrepreneurs.
Yet there is common ground, because "entrepreneurship is a lifestyle decision," says Geoff Malleck, one of the speakers at an upcoming "boot camp" offered by the Laurel Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
The social entrepreneurship boot camp takes place May 12 to 14 at the University of Waterloo.
Aimed at community groups and students interested in social change, it includes speakers and workshops on subjects such as business planning, legal issues, marketing and branding, as well as finding sponsors and dealing with granting organizations.
Malleck, assistant director of student development at the University of Waterloo's Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology, says entrepreneurship is "a way of thinking, reasoning and acting," to turn an opportunity into reality.
In the non-profit world, even the best ideas for the most worthy of causes will fail to generate support if leadership skills and entrepreneurial thinking are lacking, Malleck says.
For example, one of the key factors in the success of a business or a social organization is putting together a team of people who "know more than you do," he says.
The boot camp evolved out of a social entrepreneurship conference held last November, says Suzanne Gardner, director of communications for the Laurel Centre for Entrepreneurship.
The program, which is limited to about 30 people, has the small classroom setting that provides a more "hands-on" experience, she says.
Depending on the response to the boot camp, the Laurel Centre may offer similar programs in the future, says Jeff Henry, the centre's director of community relations. "We are trying to build this into a sustainable organization," he says, adding that "we are so good at technical innovation here in Waterloo . . . why can't we be as good on the social side as well?"
John Baker, chief executive of Aperio Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm that serves social organizations, says leaders of social sector organizations typically come from a social work rather than a business education background.
With governments pulling back funding, these organizations are under more pressure to generate their own revenue, and business skills have become more critical, says Baker, one of the speakers at the boot camp.
Social service organizations also can fall apart in human resources management, Baker says. "In a counselling centre, for example, counselling somebody is not the same as managing somebody."
Andrew Dilts, chair of the Laurel Centre for Entrepreneurship, says interest in social entrepreneurship has grown in Canada, largely because of the funding pressures.
Dilts notes that there are issues in non-profit organizations that are not the same as in the business world. Social organizations are looking for a longer-term or deeper impact, and "that can be harder to measure" than just the financial bottom line.
Also, social organizations typically depend on volunteers and the approach to motivating them is different than in the paid business world, Dilts says.
Yet there are also many lessons from the business world that can help social organizations do the work they are passionate about. "A lot of that knowledge exists in the business world, and so it's not as if social organizations need to reinvent the wheel."
The boot camp, which includes meals and accommodation, costs $250 for students and $450 for community members. See www.laurelcentre.ca for more."
SOURCE: http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/347254
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