Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is the process of innovation and creation that involves recognition of a social problem and the use of entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change. Social entrepreneurs however, a social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital, often by founding humanitarian organizations. They are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most common problems; they are ambitious, persistent social problem solvers and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Social entrepreneurs are usually not after profit but after level of impact on society as such, they are considered to be non-profit agents.

Examples of social entrepreneurs are listed below:



Susan Brownell Anthony
who fought for women's rights in the United States.
 

  Bill Drayton
 who founded Ashoka,
 a non-profit organization,
 which promotes social entrepreneurship.

  





John Muir
who established the National Park System
and helped found The Sierra Club.







 




Jill Vialet is a social entrepreneur and the
founder Playworks (formerly Sports4Kids).
Vialet founded Playworks in 1996 at two
schools in Berkeley, California. Theorganization
is now providing play and physical activities in
schools in morethan 20 cities across the United
States. By 2015, Playworks will serve more than
650 schools in 27 cities.