SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TOPICS COVERED
In the presentation, the speaker adequately looked into social entrepreneurship and social enterprises. He mostly looked into the topics of social enterprises model that takes into view each model viability and its sustainability. The models looked into are Mission-based which are social enterprises with a specific mission to sustain it and offer required services, Employment-based models aimed at creating sustainable jobs in the market for youths and helping eradicate the problems of unemployment. These Training based models are aimed at providing services and train its employees; this is educational-based modelling and resource-based model aimed at creating and generating revenue for other social enterprises and ensuring their sustainability. The speaker also mostly looked into Development of a social enterprise where he covered all steps involved and used a coffee shop as his lesson example. In this, he looked into Defining of goals which consider impacts of your dreams to the society—understanding the context which considers market demand, mission alignment funding to plan and launch and if one is working within their capacity. Assessing of capabilities which looks at taking stock of your organization assets capabilities and cultural and readiness to change, Forming a live value where one builds a business model value proposition of gains and pains and developing and deploying which requires building measuring and learning.
However, I feel he did not adequately look into support and resources he only touched vaguely on community resources but did not go into detail on how to apply for them and acquire them and their successful utilization.