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Social Entrepreneurship: Changing the world through Social Business Models
Social entrepreneurship is a new model for the charitable sector. It is still based on the desire to change the world and make it a better place. Social entrepreneurship relies on sound business principle and those who use this model are not afraid to use sales and marketing principles to raise fund...
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Abhigyan
2012
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| Summary: | Social entrepreneurship is a new model for the charitable sector. It is still based on the desire
to change the world and make it a better place. Social entrepreneurship relies on sound
business principle and those who use this model are not afraid to use sales and marketing
principles to raise funds and increase public awareness of what they are doing. Traditional
charitable organizations tend to shy away from promoting their own work. Although the
terms are relatively new, social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship can be found
throughout history. A list of a few historically noteworthy people whose work exemplifies
classic "social entrepreneurship" might include Florence Nightingale (founder of the first
nursing school and developer of modern nursing practices), Robert Owen (founder of the
cooperative movement), and Vinoba Bhawe (founder of India's Land Gift Movement),Meera
and Muzzaffar Ali who have done phenomenal work for social uplift have designed clothes
with the idea of providing a vocation in Kotwara |
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| Physical Description: | Vol 29 No. 4 (January – March 2012) |