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Creating Contributors

Creating Contributors. Ideas for social entrepreneurs Jim Randall - raconteur. Today. -What is a social entrepreneurship and why consider becoming one? -How to evolve into a social entrepreneurship. My hope for today.

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Creating Contributors

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  1. Creating Contributors Ideas for social entrepreneurs Jim Randall - raconteur

  2. Today -What is a social entrepreneurship and why consider becoming one? -How to evolve into a social entrepreneurship

  3. My hope for today You leave here with ideas that change the way you think and ideas to think about

  4. Social Entrepreneurship Idea

  5. “Social business entrepreneurs can help make the market work for social goals as efficiently as it does for personal goals” -Muhammad Yunus

  6. Social Entrepreneurship Context A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change

  7. Social Entrepreneurship Context A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change

  8. Entrepreneurial Principles Self-sustaining

  9. Entrepreneurial Principles Focus What business are we in? What is our purpose? An explicit social issue

  10. Entrepreneurial Principles Resources Seek mutually beneficial partnerships

  11. Entrepreneurial Principles Innovation An opportunist- exploits change

  12. Entrepreneurial Principles Results Pay us for our results not our mission Measuring the un-measureable Be explicit about success Transparency and accountability

  13. Why?

  14. Forces of Change Traditional sources of $ being reduced Increased needs Community social needs Businesses and governments seeking strategic partnerships Need for innovation Fewer social service agencies

  15. Opportunities To take a bigger view of our community of common interest and ask: -Who may benefit from our services and our success? -Who has resources that could benefit us?

  16. Opportunities Partnerships The services we provide our client may be similar to services offered by others in our community or in other communities.

  17. Opportunities Our success may benefit others in the community – governments, businesses or other social agencies Reduce the impact of their operations on the community Have a positive impact on their bottom line

  18. Opportunities Not –for-profits The services we provide may be of interest to those who are not in need of charity and capable of paying for those services at prices above our costs. For-profits The services we provide may be of value to those who can’t afford to pay - so find a sponsor

  19. Becoming a co-operative community social entrepreneurship does not mean forgoing our existing sources of resources but enhancing our current relationships and developing others

  20. Why? For those we serve Keep operating More self-sustaining Engage more community resources Generate innovative ideas and initiatives

  21. How do we evolve into Social Entrepreneurship?

  22. Determine the business we are in, what is our purpose? • Select our explicit issue and research how we will differ from others • Determine interest • Develop our story • Identify those people and organizations that will benefit from our success and what we will contribute to them • Tell our story and engage employees, donors, businesses and the community in generating ideas and initiatives • Determine the criteria of success and how we measure it • Develop initiatives that are results oriented • Business case initiatives • Assign responsibility • Constantly measure and report on our progress and celebrate our successes

  23. Your Story • Moves an idea from • Your head • To your heart • To your gut

  24. Jim Randall My Role Help leaders: develop a focus, create a clear and compelling story, tell the story to engage employees, donors and the community in developing ideas on how to progress, create initiatives that further progress and put in place systems to measure our progress My contribution The processes and knowledge engaging people and building relationships My Interest Working with social entrepreneurs

  25. Your options as a socialentrepreneur enhanced relationships with funding partners think and act like an entrepreneur charity charity do nothing Options bait develop initiatives that are self-sustaining social entrepreneur self-sustaining

  26. Your Ideas

  27. Jim Randall-raconteur Phone: 604-537-7951 jim@raconteur.ca www.raconteur.ca

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