Who is a Social Entrepreneur
I love this definition https://www.ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to move in different directions.
Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are visionaries, but also realists, and are ultimately concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else.
Social entrepreneurs present user-friendly, understandable, and ethical ideas that engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of citizens that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement it. Leading social entrepreneurs are mass recruiters of local changemakers— role models proving that citizens who channel their ideas into action can do almost anything ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The above is the exact spirit that has encouraged me to start "Socially Connected", however there is the need for Entrepreneurs to realise the team required. They have had the vision, has the instinct of what needs to be done and can cope with fast change, but for long-term change to occur there is a need for the education of others to understand the need for the change.
My thoughts are that, first the team needs to be gathered, which can happen through false starts and people jumping on board through their ability to be able to see the vision the Entrepreneur has and also agrees with the need to start up.
Then the directions need to be agreed, then the community encouraged. There have been many campaigns for changes that have happened over the years that are yelling at people, but the Social Entrepreneur would require more social skills and be able to engage and attract through reasoning and education the reasons for the changes if they are to be long-term changes.
, not understanding that those that need to help them do not and there is a need for the skills to be documented and t
