November 20, 2022
Updated over 1 year ago
What is social entrepreneurship? (source: causeartist)
A term used for business models with a social or environmental focus. A social entrepreneur creates social and/or environmental change, either through a for-profit or non-profit business model. (Check out Chapter 3 in this free PDF about entrepreneurship, or another free entrepreneurship textbook)
A term used for business models with a social or environmental focus. A social entrepreneur creates social and/or environmental change, either through a for-profit or non-profit business model. (Check out Chapter 3 in this free PDF about entrepreneurship, or another free entrepreneurship textbook)
The site Causeartist (source of many referenced articles) tends to focus more on social entrepreneurship through the lens of for-profit businesses.
The article is a good read, but in general, social entrepreneurs identify social problems and develop business solutions to address them. Unlike traditional businesses, social entrepreneurs are motived by both profit AND creating an impact.
The importance of website design for non-profits (a podcast)
https://studiohumankind.com/shop (templates are $800+, which we don't need, but we can implement ANY of the design concepts that we like...we just have to identify them and prioritize)
Also, I uploaded three non-profit workbooks downloaded from studiohumankind...they should be helpful for us.
1. How to make a good website
2. A book on non-profit strategy
3. A book on developing organizational goals
The importance of website design for non-profits (a podcast)
https://studiohumankind.com/shop (templates are $800+, which we don't need, but we can implement ANY of the design concepts that we like...we just have to identify them and prioritize)
Also, I uploaded three non-profit workbooks downloaded from studiohumankind...they should be helpful for us.
1. How to make a good website
2. A book on non-profit strategy
3. A book on developing organizational goals
Starting small, these stories are inspirational:
Profiles of women social entrepreneurs and nonprofit founders who are addressing social issues in innovative and inspiring ways — and using the power of business to do good
Scott's thoughts:
We can become recognized like these organizations. We can communicate our mission like them. It will take regular, daily hard work...and we have to be more strategic and organized...but it will be rewarding and meaningful along the way!
2023 goals:
One key goal should be for many regular SMALL successes in 2023, similar to that podcast you did. That was a huge accomplishment and success, and demonstrated (hopefully to yourself) that you can represent your varied interests verbally and visually!!
- Send press releases to journalists and bloggers (example: https://causeartist.com/submit-press-release/)
- Consider paid listing sites too, such as https://causeartist.com/add-listing/
Stories about other larger established non-profits:
https://causeartist.com/nonprofit-founders-impact-the-world/
These stories should ONLY inspire a bit. We don't need to compare our early-stage operation to huge successes, but to the extent that we can recognize that these are regular people who worked regularly on their mission...then they should serve as examples to learn from.
Interesting stories were:
Amitabh Shah of Yuva Unstoppable: https://causeartist.com/inspiring-leader-debt-impacting-five-millions-lives-around-the-world-yuva/
Juliana Rotich of Ushahidi (open source software, and enterprise solutions, for disaster relief and crowdsourcing data)
She also is the Co-founder of BRCK Inc (Kenyan hardware and services technology company for communication in low infrastructure areas)
She is a Director in the Kenyan entity BRCK Kenya Ltd and drives partnerships for tackling social problems through appropriate technology.
Jake Wood of Team Rubicon: My parent's friend volunteers for them
https://teamrubiconusa.org/
Reshma Saujani: Girls who Code
Michael Faye – GiveDirectly (they pay people in Africa small amounts of cash, also he has some money transfer platform)
Brandon Nicholson of Hidden Genius Project (Oakland, CA): https://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/
The View Stories section on their website is interesting https://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/category/geniusrevealed/ and their use of the #geniusRevealed to tell stories is something I've wanted to do for a long time. Look at both the small "cards" and the "full page" articles.
More ideas for becoming EXCITED to be the Story Teller for the non-profit initiatives you care about
https://www.thestorytellingnonprofit.com/blog/9-sources-of-inspiration-for-nonprofit-storytelling/
Ed tech startups
https://causeartist.com/edtech-startups-to-watch-for/
Stories about impact investment funds that raised money recently
$111 million raised for African education
Resources and a guide highlighting WHO FUNDS social entrepreneurs written by Ami Shah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ami-shah-31824314a/
Yet to launch impact investing platform: https://www.impactinvestor.io/
Grant is the founder of Cause Artist: https://www.linkedin.com/in/granttrahant/
Elizabeth Yin of The Hustle Fund invests in pre-seed rounds, typically $25k and they decide within a few days.
https://causeartist.com/hustle-fund-elizabeth-yin/
Blockchain Social Initiatives (nothing really stood out)
https://alice.si/ (somewhat similar to the guy we talked to)
List of some other projects: https://causeartist.com/changing-the-world-blockchain-technology/
https://blockchainforsocialimpact.com/
