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Making Social Entrepreneurship Trendy
The document discusses social entrepreneurship as a viable career option focusing on creating positive societal changes rather than just generating profits. It highlights the critical global issues, such as lack of clean drinking water, and illustrates the principles and characteristics of successful social entrepreneurs through various examples, including notable figures like Muhammad Yunus and initiatives like TOMS shoes. Additionally, it features several social enterprises in India, outlining their impact on communities and strategies for sustainable development.
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Making Social Entrepreneurship Trendy
- 1. Making Social Entrepreneurship– A Career Option
- 2. Are you tiredof living a life in the rut or do you want to live your idea Then spark the next green revolution
- 3. A Business Enterprsie– Concerned only with Profits
- 4. A Social Enterprsie– Concerned with People, Planet & Profit
- 5. An inequitable world WHYSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
- 6. Champagne Glass ofDevelopment
- 7. Privileged class of Indiabehaves like Queen Marie Antoinette Mainly because of a disembodied education system
- 8. Water, water everywherebut not a glass to drink 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people 3.41 million people die from water, sanitation and hygiene-related causes each year. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day. 1
- 9. Would you likeCoke or Food?
- 10. Think when youleave food on your plate
- 14. Become a social entrepreneur
- 16. Who is aSocial Entrepreneur A person who pursues an innovative idea with the potential to solve a community problem. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives. Examples of social entrepreneurship include microfinance institutions, educational programs, providing banking services in underserved areas and helping children orphaned by epidemic disease. The main goal of a social entrepreneur is not to earn a profit, but to implement widespread improvements in society. However, a social entrepreneur must still be financially savvy to succeed in his or her cause.
- 17. Simple Principles ofSocial Entrepreneurship WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BE A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
- 18. 1. Find somethingyou love and would do for no pay 2. Define the Problem 3. Come up with a Solution 4. THINK BIG 5. BUILD SIMPLE 6. ACT NOW
- 19. “Small” is amindset, a way of acting, as opposed to a physical state – Small is not the the size of your bank account, your asset base or the number of employees you have, etc. Thinking “Big” is thinking smart. Big ideas don’t have to equate to big budgets and expenses – Big ideas are new ideas.
- 20. For years, scientistshave been studying “swarm intelligence”—the collective behavior of social insects like honeybees and ants—to better understand the mechanisms underlying the amazing effectiveness of groups of individuals interacting “in the moment.” Without layers of management or carefully developed strategic plans, these “self-organizing teams” arrive at the best solutions to complex survival issues like nest building and foraging for food. Swarm Intelligence – Build Simple, Act Now
- 21. Commitment Remain self – committed for you are your
- 22. Though every socialentrepreneur is a hero SOME GREAT SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
- 23. The Great SocialEntrepreneurs Bill Drayton isn’t just a great example of a social entrepreneur, he actually helped to define and promote the term itself. Drayton is the founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an organization that is dedicated to finding and helping social entrepreneurs around the world. Drayton spreads out his social entrepreneurship expertise in other organizations as well, working as a chairman at Community Greens, Youth Venture, and Get America Working! in addition to his duties at Ashoka. As of 2010, Ashoka Foundation has sponsored 2,145 Bill Drayton fellows in 73 countries, some of which have gone on to develop leading social businesses that have made a huge impact on communities around the world.
- 24. The Great SocialEntrepreneurs Bring up social entrepreneurs and one of the first names you’re likely to encounter is that of Muhammad Yunus. Yunus has quite literally written the book on social entrepreneurship, sharing his expertise in microfinance and social capitalism through a number of books. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit loans to those in need to help them develop financial self-sufficiency. Muhammad Yunus Founded in 1983, the bank has brought in a net income of more than $10 million, and his work with the organization landed Yunus a Nobel Prize in 2006.
- 25. The Great SocialEntrepreneurs TOMS founder, Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006 after a visit to Argentina where he learned that many children get sick or injured because they do not have shoes to wear. To combat this, he created TOMS, a business that donates one pair of shoes to needy people for every pair that’s bought. So far, the company has donated more than a million pairs of shoes. In 2011, the company launched another initiative which aims to give away a pair of glasses or sight-saving surgery Blake Mycoskie for every pair of sunglasses or glasses sold.
- 26. The Great SocialEntrepreneurs Lack of clean and accessible drinking water is sadly something that millions of people (some estimates put it at more than a billion) worldwide face every day. After a moment of clarity in Liberia, club promoter Scott Harrison decided to make it his mission to change that, heading up the non-profit organization charity: water. Since it began, the charity has delivered clean drinking water to more than a million people in 17 different countries around the world. Harrison is perhaps one of the most successful social entrepreneurs of all time, with his organization growing more than 100% Scott Harrison in the first quarter of 2011, despite a major economic crisis that paralyzed many similar ventures. Harrison says he regards charity: water as a for-profit startup that has no profits, saying, “We give away 100% of our profits.
- 27. The Great SocialEntrepreneurs Indian social activist and entrepreneur Sanjit “Bunker” Roy has helped thousands of people in Asia and Africa learn vital technical skills and bring solar power to their sometimes remote villages. Roy founded the Barefoot College, an organization which specializes in teaching illiterate women from poor villages how to become doctors, engineers, and architects. What’s more impressive is that each of the college’s campuses are solar powered and often built and designed by former students. In founding the college, Roy’s goal wasn’t to make a profit for himself, but to help improve the economic production and quality of life of Bunker Roy women throughout his native India (though some aspects of the project have spread to Africa as well). With women leading and running most of the Barefoot College’s operations, it’s clear that he’s been pretty successful in achieving that goal.
- 28. Special Mention –Amir Khan “Khan’s Quest” – He is breaking the Bollywood mold by tackling India’s social evils. Can an actor change a nation?” The 47-year-old actor’s show, which wrapped up on August 15, highlighted social evils like female foeticide, sexual abuse and domestic violence. “The solution has to start with me, with every individual. After all, if these terrible things are happening in my society, then I have a share of the blame, because I’ve done nothing to stop them,” Aamir Khan said “A solution can only begin to appear once I accept it’s partly my fault, and then you accept that it’s partly your fault, and a third person and a fourth person,” he added. Other Indian actors to feature on the cover of the magazine are Parveen Babi and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
- 29. We Are Everywhere SOMESOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN VARIOUS SECTORS
- 30. Social Enterprises inIndia All of our costs and income are made clearly transparent, and 100% of any profits we take in are used back in the community through Seva Cafe. When you dine at Seva Café, you are not viewed as a customer, but instead as our treasured guest, as part of our family. When you dine at Seva Café, your meal is offered to you as a genuine gift, already paid for in full by previous guests. You become part of a Circle of Giving, which is modeled more closely to that of a family. Here, there are no bills. We leave it to you to pay it forward with your heart.
- 31. Social Enterprises inIndia Waterlife is a pioneer in providing high quality potable water solutions to the underserved in an affordable and sustainable manner. It has installed safe water systems in more than 1,500 villages and urban areas reaching more than one million people.
- 32. Social Enterprises inIndia HPS provides end-to-end renewable energy solutions by installing 25-kW to 100-kW ‘mini power plants’ and then wiring villages and hamlets of up to 4000 inhabitants to deliver electricity on a pay- for-use basis. HPS uses a biomass gasification based proprietary electricity generation process, that generates electricity using 100% producer gas based system (“single fuel mode”). HPS distributes electricity directly to households and small businesses while keeping costs low by running insulated wires along bamboo poles to subscribing Husk Power Systems households, businesses and farms. Has touched Two Lakhs lives so far
- 33. SELCO Solar Pvt.Ltd, a social enterprise established in 1995, provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses. It was conceived in an effort to dispel three myths associated with sustainable technology and the rural sector as a target customer base: 1) Poor people cannot afford sustainable technologies; 2) Poor people cannot maintain sustainable technologies; 3) Social ventures cannot be run as commercial entities. SELCO aims to empower its customer by providing a complete package of product, service and consumer financing through grameena banks, cooperative societies, commercial banks and micro-finance institutions. Harish Hande – Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award
- 34. Fabindia is India'slargest private platform for products that are made from traditional techniques, skills and hand-based processes. Fabindia links over 80,000 craft based rural producers to modern urban markets, thereby creating a base for skilled, sustainable rural employment, and preserving India's traditional handicrafts in the process. Fabindia promotes inclusive capitalism, through its unique COC (community owned companies) model. The COC model consists of companies, which act as value adding intermediaries, between rural producers and Fabindia. These are owned, as the name suggests, by the communities they operate from; a minimum 26% shareholding of these companies is that of craft persons. Fabindia's products are natural, craft based, contemporary, and affordable.
- 35. Social Enterprises inIndia Retired eye surgeon Govindappa Venkataswamy established the organization in nineteen seventy-six. He wanted to make high quality eye care available to all, especially India's poor. He wanted to prevent needless cases of blindness. Eight out of ten people with vision problems live in developing countries. The World Health Organization says eighty-five percent of all vision problems could be prevented or cured. That includes seventy-five percent of all blindness. An estimated forty-five million people are blind, and India is home to ten million of them. Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, in Tamil Nadu state, with only eleven beds. Today Aravind Eye Care System is the largest eye care provider in the world. It operates five hospitals and more than thirty eye care centers across India. About seventy percent of the patients receive free care. The money comes from the thirty percent of patients who can pay for their services.
- 36. Social Enterprise inIndia Pratham is the largest non governmental organisation working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. Pratham was established in 1994 to provide education to the children in the slums of Mumbai city. Since then, the organization has grown both in scope and geographical coverage. Today we reach out to millions of children living both in rural and urban areas through a range of interventions. The Pratham team comprises of educationists, development professionals, media personnel, corporates, workers, activists, PhDs, MBAs, CAs, civil servants, bankers, corporate professionals, consultants, who all bring their experiences and perspectives to the organsiation and are unified by the common vision of improving the future of our children.
- 37. Social Enterprise inIndia Mission To show it is possible to build a profitable and modern media company, which does not compromise on the quality of information and serves the needs of the citizen and the consumer. NEEV Soaps Article in Civil Society Magazine Publisher – Umesh Anand
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- 39. VISION Empower individuals, transformsociety and sustain earth through education, environment initiatives and social entrepreneurship.
- 40. NEEV – CoreValues Honesty Hard Work Mindfulness Compassion Resource Efficiency
- 41. NEEV INITIATIVES NEEV NEEV HERBAL NEEV SCHOOL NEEV TRUST HANDMADE SOAPS
- 42. NEEV’s Hybrid SocialEnterprise Model
- 43. NEEV Trust Providing Education, Trainingand Skill Development to rural women, children and farmers
- 44. Training and Employment Underthe SDI programs of NABARD, 100 women were trained in manufacturing and packaging of handmade herbal soaps and other cosmetics. They were also taught to make handmade paper bags. They were also given training in marketing their products in fairs.
- 45. SRI System of Rice Intensification SRI is a system of growing rice which aims at gaining more yield per drop of water i.e., the main focus of the system is water saving. Since most farmers in Jharkhand do rain fed farming, it has become inevitable to begin farming practices with effective utilisation of water resources. The SRI is one such technology which promotes higher productivity with minimum input of water.
- 46. SRI System of Rice Intensification • Number of farmers attached : 600 farmers • Area covered under SRI : 50 acres • No. of awareness programs organised in various villages :16 awareness programs • No. of Kisan melas organised : 5 kisan melas • No. of participating farmers in Kisan mela : 200 participant farmers
- 47. NEEV Rural LearningCentre Bringing the Joy of Learning to Rural Kids in Hurlung Village through weekly interactive classes
- 48. Internship Program forStudents
- 49. NETWORKING XLRI • Student Projects,MAXI Fair, Mentoring, Exposure, Conferences BIMTECH, NOIDA • Course on Social Entrepreneurship SYMBIOSIS, PUNE • Media Support FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES • Student Research Projects AIESEC Interns • Internship by Foreign Students
- 50. Involving MBA Studentsin Social Entrepreneurship Venture of NEEV
- 51. NEEV Soaps ResearchProjects by Symbiosis Students NEEV Soaps Case Study in Maxi Fair - 2009
- 52. Interacting with XLRIStudents on NEEV Soaps Competition - 2010
- 53. AIMS OF NEEVPUBLIC SCHOOL
- 56. Glimpses – NEEVPublic School Activities Round the Year
- 57. Glimpses – NEEVPublic School Caring Learning Environment
- 58. Glimpses – NEEVPublic School Digital Multimedia Classroom
- 59. Glimpses – NEEVPublic School Inter School Cultural Programs
- 60. Challenges – NEEVPublic School • Cost of Books & Copies High Cost of Education • Cost of Travel – Village to School Money cannot be a motivation as Retaining Good salaries are as low as Rs. 1000 to 2000 per month Teachers School cannot charge high fees from Limited poor parents Infrastructure Most students studying in NEEV are first English Language generation learners or children whose parents don’t speak english
- 61. Success Achieved Despite Challenges,by NEEV School First Batch of Students Pass out ICSE with 82% being Highest Percentage NEEV School becomes one of the first schools to have a multimedia digital class room NEEV School has one of the lowest attrition rate of teachers Gives quality education at half the cost of other English medium schools
- 62. Not Just aCommodity But a Vision NEEV Herbal handmade Soaps is a social enterprise that reveres and celebrates harmony between man and nature. We aim to produce the highest quality hand crafted herbal products while providing a dignified means of employment of rural women and regenerating rural economy 3P’s People, Planet & Profit
- 63. NEEV Soaps isthe For Profit Wing of NEEV Social Enterprise Founded in 2007 by Shikha & Anurag Registered as a SSI under Khadi & Village Industries Commission Legal Status – Proprietary Firm
- 64. Providing Employment toRural Ladies Women Working along with Babies
- 65. The Game Changer– India International Trade Fair 2008
- 66. NEEV Soaps inCANTON Fair – CHINA, 2009
- 67. NEEV SOAPS ININDIA SOUTH AFRICA SUMMIT - 2011
- 68. Reach of NEEVHerbal Products Retail Outlets • Over 100 Retail Outlets in 22 cities, Bypassing the Distributor Exhibitions • About 50 Exhibitions Online Partners • About 7 Online Partners like SHOPO, CRAFTSVILLA, VILLCART, NATURAL MANTRA ETC. Hotels • 6 Hotels Social Media Marketing • Website & Facebook Women Partners • At Present 5 Partners
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- 70. Awards Vivekananda Yuva Samman2009 Bharat Excellence Award 2011 Vivekananda Yuva Samman 2012 National Award from MSME 2010
- 71. MBA in SocialEntrepreneurship offered by all Colleges