Mission Impact through Social Entrepreneurship

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Mission Impact through Social Entrepreneurship

• Jane Wei-Skillern
• Social Enterprise Group
• Harvard Business School

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What is Social Entrepreneurship?

• Means of producing social value by mobilizing
  resources in innovative ways.

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Community development NGOs operating
independently to deliver their services
Community development NGOs collaborating to raise
communities out of poverty
housing
economic development
education
Social Entrepreneurship
healthcare
After collectively generate 1000 houses per
year.
Before generate 50 houses per year.
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• Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship Guide
  Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA)

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GDBA Background

• Mission To provide guide dogs, mobility, and
  other rehabilitation services that meet the needs
  of the visually impaired
• Founded in 1931
• World leader in training and breeding of guide
  dogs based in the U.K.

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GDBA Social Entrepreneurship in Action

• NGO partnership joining forces with former
  competitors to improve client services
• Government partnership leveraging government
  reach and resources
• Private sector partnership mobilizing the field
  for action

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GDBA Social Entrepreneurship Impact

• Efficiency increased coordination, eliminated
  counterproductive competition, reduced
  redundancies, facilitated communication and
  learning among charities, government, and eyecare
  professionals.
• Effectiveness charities, government, private
  sector focusing on their competencies and
  combining resources to generate synergies.
  Unified voice/raise visibility and resources for
  field as a whole. Clients receive more and
  better quality services.
• Sustainability partnerships developed capacity
  to serve needs among network participants.
  Social value creation embedded within entire
  network, not a single organization or sector.
• Greater mission impact

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How to become a social entrepreneur?

• What is your vision and mission?
• What resources can you contribute?
• What additional resources need to be mobilized?
• How can these resources be combined to create a
  win-win for contributors? And for society?

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Never doubt that a small group of committed
people can change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has.
particularly when they think and act like social
entrepreneurs

• Margaret Mead
• American Intellectual, antropologist (1901-1978)