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What Is a Social Entrepreneur, Really?
Ashoka Canada would like to share a blog post written by our U.S. Fellow David Castro:
In the middle of the night, I wake up thinking about this question.
Why is this on my mind, you might be wondering? As a recently baptized Ashoka Fellow, I find myself spending a lot of time lately explaining the meaning of the phrase social entrepreneurship. The sometimes confused looks on the faces of people listening tell me that they don't always get it.
Fueled by insomnia and searching for a better explanation, I fire up the Internet. It says: A social entrepreneur creates innovative reinforcing systems that serve people or causes lacking resources, thereby producing surplus value that the entrepreneur reinvests to grow and improve those systems. Read more
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs — men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected more than 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 63 countries.
Please have a look at the research Ashoka and McKinsey & Company have done on Ashoka Fellows and their systemic social impact for social change.
Our Fellows inspire others to adopt and spread their innovations - demonstrating to all citizens that they too have the potential to be powerful changemakers.
