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== What are Social Enterprises and how do they help the society? ==

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-What are Social entrepreneurs? -What is Social Entrepreneurship? -Defination of Social Entrepreneurship -Why "Social" Entrepreneur -Examples of Social enterprises? -What is the guiding philosophy of Social enterprises -How will the Social Enterprises be recognized by the community and the government?

What are Social Enterprises/Entrepreneur? - Social enterprise is an organization that uses commercial strategies to improve both the human and the environmental well-being.Most social entrepreneur are usually ambitious and persistant,tackling major social issues to offer new ideas for a wide-scale change to the society. They presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical and engage widespread support in order to achieve the number of people to support their idea.  [|Click here to watch the video on "What is Social Enterprises"]

__** What is Social Entrepreneurship? **__
 * Social entrepreneurship** is the recognition of a social problem and the uses of entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change. While a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur also measures positive returns to society. Thus, the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further broaden social, cultural, and environmental goals. Social entrepreneurs are commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors, but this need not preclude making a profit. Social entrepreneurship practised with a world view or international context is called international social entrepreneurship. See also Corporate Social Entrepreneurship.

-__**Defination of Social Entrepreneurship**__

Social entrepreneurs are people who have noticed a need in their community or somewhere in the world, and have come up with a way of remedying that issue through the application of market principles. The remedy could be creative, innovative, “out of the box,” etc... since most entrepreneurs tend to think in this manner. In general, social entrepreneurs did not start out with the goal of making money, but in the long run, switch to a for-profit business. Anecdotal evidence indicates that many social entrepreneurs are faced with an issue in their youth that motivates them to do something about the problem in adulthood, such as poverty, sanitation, etc.

Why "Social Entrepreneur"?

-Social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for the society, improving the systems and create new solutions to change the society while the entrepreneurs basically just change the face of business like creating a new industries. The primary difference between the business and the social entrepreneurs is the purpose of setting up the business. While the business entrepreneurs' efforts focus on building a business and earning profits, the social entrepreneurs's purpose is to create social change. Social entrepreneuring enables one to help out people around us and to make bonds. By helping people, we in turn feel good about ourselves and this is one of the distinct advantages of social entreprenuering.



<span style="background-color: #e58624; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Examples of some famous Entrepreneurs/Enterprises.

> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">-The Malaysian Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) d created to address social problems that use business models to sustain themselves financially. Social enterprises seek to create not only financial returns but also social returns to their beneficiaries." [|[3]] The Alliance regards social enterprises as businesses with a social focus, distinct from non-profit organisations. > -Queensland University of Technology to define social enterprise and, for the first time in Australia, to identify and map the social enterprise sector: its scope, its variety of forms, its reasons for trading, its financial dimensions, and the individuals and communities social enterprises aim to benefit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Vinoba Bhave (India) - Founder and leader of the Land Gift Movement, he caused the redistribution of more than 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) of land to aid India's untouchables and landless. Mahatma Gandhi described him as his mentor.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;">David Brower (U.S.) - Environmentalist and conservationist, he served as the Sierra Club's first executive director and built it into a worldwide network for environmental issues. He also founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and The Earth Island Institute.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;">Akatar Hameed Khan (Pakistan) - Founder of grassroots movement for rural communities Comilla Model, and low-cost sanitation programmes (Orangi Pilot Project) for squatter settlements.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Maria Montessori[|i] (Italy) - Developed the Montessori approach to early childhood education.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">John Muir (U.S.) - Naturalist and conservationist, he established the National Park System and helped found The Sierra Club.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Florence Nightingale (UK) - Founder of modern nursing, she established the first school for nurses and fought to improve hospital conditions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Frederick Law Olmsted (U.S.) - Creator of major urban parks, including Rock Creek Park in Washington DC, Central Park in NYC, and Mount Royal Park in Montreal, he is generally considered to have developed the profession of landscape architecture in America
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Malaysian Social Enterprise Alliance ===
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Queensland University of Technology
 * __**Istvan Aba-Horvath: Based in Hungary, Istvan’s mission is to aid Gypsy children in getting an education and simultaneously earn money. Raul Oscar Abasolo Trincado: Raul lives in Chile and works with poor, outcast youth in his country. He has provided an opportunity for them to become meaningful and productive members of society.**__
 * __**Mohammed Bah Abba: Mohammed has “resurrected” a form of pottery that was originally used in ancient Egypt. This pottery has allowed his people to keep their food fresh in the harsh climate of Nigeria.**__
 * __**Abbass Abbass: Abbass started AlManarah in 2005, an organization centered in Israel. His mission is to stop discrimination against disabled people in his country.**__
 * __**Rafael Alvarez: Rafael’s goal is to help American youth extend their outlook beyond graduation from high school, to highly skilled jobs by training students with the skills they need to do so. He accomplishes this goal through his organization, Genesys Works.**__
 * __**Anita Ahuja: In India, Anita has addressed problems of waste, sanitation, and unemployment into a social entrepreneurial organization. Her business produces high-end accessories, such as wallets and purses, out of plastic waste.**__
 * __**Manish Sankla: In India, Manish has been igniting youths by creating "consciousness" amongst young minds about their social responsibilities towards the wider community through Health, Education and Social activities.**__

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">What are the guilding philosophy of Social Enterprises? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The guilding philosophy of social enterprises are basically the goals that the aim to to improve the welfare of the community and to achieve their vision and mission to shape the world.It is also the vision that drive the enterprises to move toward their goals and have a sense of purpose to have a clear goal and specific objectives to achieve a practical steps towards your vision.

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<span style="background-color: #007aff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">How will the Social Enterprises be recognized by the Government/Society?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The Social Enterprises will be recognized for their effort to the society by the government/society by

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The community will grants the social enterprise to have a sum of money to fund for a certain social objective the enterprise have .The grants will be able to relieve the social enterprise of which faces financial/economic crisis.

=<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">President's Challenge Social Enterprise Award =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">-The Award will be given out in three categories namely - Social Enterprise of the Year Award, Social Enterprise Start Up of the Year Award, and Youth Social Enterprise of the Year Award. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">-The President Challenge's Social Enterprise Award was first announced in March 2012 to recognise successful and sustainable social enterprises that had made significant social impact in Singapore. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

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