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Civic Eship.p65

Source: www.ruraleship.org
Topic: Entrepreneurship

Sort Desciption: deeper and explore the role of civic entrepreneurship and ... civic entrepreneurship. We organize civic entrepreneur-. ship into at least three groupings ...

Content Inside: Civic Entrepreneurship 1 Monograph 3 June 2003 Deborah Markley-Co-Directors-Don Macke Abstract. Entrepreneurs are a creative class within American society. Some create businesses others contribute to the civic life of our communities. This monograph Civic Entrepreneurs & Entrepreneurship provides a basic overview of what are often referred to as civic public social or community entrepreneurs. These are the folks that build everything from play- grounds for children to remarkable health care sys- tems and government agencies. Associated with this monograph is an insert titled Social Capital. This piece provides further insight on the role that civic entrepreneurs play in creating something called so- cial capital. Introduction When we hear the word entrepreneur most of us think of Bill Gates or someone we know who has been very suc- cessful in business. Most of us would not immediately think of the person creating a foundation running a pub- lic health clinic or creating a youth sports league. Entre- preneurs in America come in many forms including those who create ventures with a public purpose. Illustrating the lack of awareness about civic entrepre- neurship we do not even have an accepted set of terms and definitions. We like the term civic entrepreneurs focusing on the civic purpose of their work. But others employ public or social entrepreneurs to label those Americans who create new ventures ways of doing things and solutions to the civic or public sides of our lives. Whether in education health care the arts recreation or governance these entrepreneurs we believe are critically important to building not only better communities with higher qualities of life but they also build environments that enable private entrepreneurs to create and thrive. Dr. Neal Flora and others have introduced the concept of social capital (see insert on social capital) to help ex- plain how some communities are able to do a better job in meeting the needs of t ...

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