Social entrepreneurship/Social entrepreneur

A social entrepreneur is someone who engages in social entrepreneurship.

Suggested Definitions
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 * A Social Entrepreneur is an individual who uses socio-cultural means in an unique, innovative and sustained manner to attain socio-cultural valued goals, as a result of which significant socio-cultural (and systemic) change is brought about which is considered to be an improvement on a previous socio-cultural condition (Senekal)

Examples of Social Entrepreneurs

 * See Profiles of Social Entrepreneurs

Characteristics of Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs are unique individuals from a variety of professions, in a variety of countries, with powerful ideas around improving quality of life in the short, medium and long term. There are some qualities which many social entrepreneurs seem to share:


 * visionary
 * mission-orientated
 * relentlessly driven (towards implementation and realising the vision)

Inspiration
Can I be a social entrepreneur?


 * Celebrate what's right with the world - Dewitt Jones (video) - be the best you can be for the world (consistent with the appreciative approach suggested for the Social Entrepreneurship curriculum.