Social Entrepreneurship

In class we discussed the topic of social entrepreneurship. 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. A social entrepreneur is someone who makes our society a better place and will never take "no" for an answer. There were some examples discussed in class such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Clinton Foundation. According to Bill and Melinda Gates, "We created the Gates Foundation in 2000 because we believe in the principle that every human life has equal worth. The life of an impoverished child in a developing country is as precious as the life of a middle-class kid in a developed one." The foundation helps the poor and the sick all around the world. On the other hand, there's is the Bill Clinton Foundation. The William J. Clinton Foundation focuses on worldwide issues that demand urgent action, solutions, and measurable results such as global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing world, childhood obesity and economic opportunity in the United States, and economic development in Africa and Latin America. Both men have demonstrated to be true social entrepreneurs, they saw a problem and found solutions. For more information on both of these foundations, please visit the following websites:

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about-the-clinton-foundation/

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx