Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Business Resource Guide: Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

Featuring Sally Osberg, author of Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Host: Peter Drobac, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

“In this ‘everyone an entrepreneur’ era, hack-a-thons, accelerators, business incubators, and social entrepreneurship training courses are around every corner. They mostly focus on training people with the skills they need to start a social business, neglecting the many other skills required to fully understand a problem and fuel social change.” Read here for more.

“We are in an age of heropreneurship: everyone wants to “be” a social entrepreneur. The myth of the entrepreneur creates a false hierarchy with “start-up founder” at the top. We foster this obsession in our education, our funding, our awards, and our media. But we don’t just need more founders. We need more positive social impact.”

Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of Fellows, Young Changemakers, Changemaker Institutions, and beyond who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker – a person that sees themselves as capable of creating large-scale change.

Creating a new equitable economic norm by catalyzing social enterprises in the U.S. to grow their revenue and their impact.

Financial resources for entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their small business

Supports social entrepreneurs with bold ideas as they solve the world’s biggest problems.

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

Membership organization creating a new equitable economic norm by catalyzing social enterprises in the U.S. to grow their revenue and their impact.

Grants impact-driven organizations access to their philanthropic community’s capabilities including funding, a network of partners, and training to apply principles that help people thrive.

In September 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, 193 world leaders committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (or Global Goals). These are a series of ambitious objectives and targets to end extreme poverty and hunger, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change, by 2030. Business needs to be a part of this movement.