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1 The Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship Pamela Hartigan Global ...

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Content Inside: 1 The Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship Pamela Hartigan Global Summit 2004 - Brazil Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship The greatest challenge to social entrepreneurship today lies in the fact that all other actors that should be reinforcing and supporting social entrepreneurs including governments businesses multilateral and bilateral institutions foundations philanthropists and academia have not caught up with this emerging field. Most are still stuck in that fragmented world that dichotomizes the public and private sector the non-profit and for-profit sector donors and their beneficiaries and so on. The focus is still on short term thinking and the search for instant results. Social entrepreneurs challenge that thinking. For those of you who have not closely followed the evolution of social entrepreneurship I would like to point out that social entrepreneurs have been around since human beings started to form communities but the concept of social entrepreneurship is part of a more recent and larger story It emerges at a specific historical juncture around the 1980s as business and society reorganized along entrepreneurial lines. At the risk of over-simplifying for the sake of time I would posit four moments in the recent evolution of social entrepreneurship. The first moment was around 1980 and is best represented by the founding of Ashoka by Bill Drayton in 1980 to develop and legitimize the field of social entrepreneurship. Thanks to this initial push a growing number of social entrepreneurs around the world started to recognize themselves as such and a global fellowship started emerging. The second moment occurred simultaneously with the first. In a sense the two were part of the same wave of the early 80s in which men and women around the world. began coming together to respond to the increasingly visible and growing inequity gap between the haves and have nots. Social entrepreneurs like many other citizens who came together to a ...

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