ON PHILANTHROPY magazine article: Social Entrepreneurship: More Than Words by Connette Gayle
  • "Much has been discussed and written recently about the burgeoning arena of social entrepreneurship, broadly defined as the process of using entrepreneurial skills to create innovative solutions to social needs. While relatively new, this idea offers an effective vehicle for skilled, socially-minded individuals to pursue their desires to create for-profit and nonprofit organizations that do well while also doing good."
… Doing well (making profit) and doing good (making fruition) are sometimes the same and sometimes different. You definitely can do both, and doing well and doing good probably always coincide to some degree. The key is that doing well usually involves doing both good and bad, so the "more well" one does, the more one should be responsiblie for distinguishing between good and bad, sharing the knowledge of that distinction broadly, while openly working to maximize the former and minimize the latter. Challenges regularly are found creeping in - ignoring fruition to maximize profit and privilege - weakening leadership. Read leaders are always needed, and typically are in short supply.

SCOUTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE - a program that provides for cooperation between students and professors from European universities, businesses and social entrepreneurs

  • "Social entrepreneurship combines the best of two spheres: The objectives of the SE are solely social and are pursued in a business-like entrepreneurial way. Social entrepreneurs play the role of social change agents, by: 1) adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private value), 2) recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve that mission, 3) engaging in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation, and learning, 4) acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand, and 5) exhibiting a heightened sense of accountability to the constituencies served and for the out-comes created. This is clearly an "idealized" definition written by J. Gregory Dees from Stanford Business School. Three important factors come along with this definition. Social entrepreneurs respond to social needs by using effective and efficient business models. They are eager to multiply their business models in other re-gions and countries. Moreover, they always take a pragmatic approach to social needs by embedding their solutions in the local context.
CHAORDIC COMMONS - "a nonprofit, membership organization that develops, disseminates, and implement new concepts of organization that result in more equitable sharing of power and wealth, improved health, and greater compatibility with the human spirit and biosphere."

New organizational concepts is what social enterprise is about, and the principle and purpose of Chaordic Theory is directly applicable to Aikido Activism. Chaordic Commons' Constitution would likely adapt its tenet of equal intellectual property ownership, so as to permit the principle that life requires both competition and collaboration in balance.

HIBBERT, HOGG, ET AL.

  • "Social entrepreneurship is the use of entrepreneurial behavior for social ends rather than for profit objectives, or alternatively, that the profits generated are used for the benefit of a specific disadvantaged group."
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
  • "Social entrepreneurship is the art of simultaneously pursuing both a financial and a social return on investment."
PRABU
  • "(Social entrepreneurial leaders) are persons who create and manage innovative entrepreneurial organizations or ventures whose primary mission is the social change and development of their client group."
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