Social entrepreneurship
What is a social entrepreneur?
A social entrepreneur is a person with innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, and address the most important and most urgent social issues to find new ideas for radical social change.
Social entrepreneurs are both visionaries and pragmatics who are looking for ways to realize its vision.
Social entrepreneurship is founded on the conviction that business methods are useful for achieving social goals. Professionalism and social benefits go hand in hand. Just as commercial entrepreneurs create entirely new industries, social entrepreneurs create new radical solutions to social problems and implement them. They see opportunities that others miss and improve systems, invent new approaches and create solutions to change society for the better.
Legal platform
The social entrepreneur can run a social enterprise, where profits are entirely reinvested to develop the business, or an organization, association, trust, foundation or network. Regardless of organizational platform, the social entrepreneur seeks to achieve social goals.
What characterizes a social entrepreneur?
Playing for
Change’s social entrepreneurs have innovative ideas that somehow
promotes children's and / or young people's right to play.
A social entrepreneur:
- Starts / runs a social enterprise (or organization / association), with the aim to change the world.
- Possesses entrepreneurship skills, is results-driven, competitive and continues until the idea is realized.
- Is creative and have the ability to think "outside the box", is flexible and has strong adaptability.
- Is reliable, have social change as the main driving force, and is politically and religiously independent.
- Thinks globally and acts locally.
Contact
Sara Damber
Playing for Change
COO Hugo Stenbeck's Foundation
info@playingforchange.se
Playing for Change/Hugo Stenbecks Stiftelse
Box 2094
SE-103 13 Stockholm
