Social Entrepreneurship and Profit

[CSEF]

I am the ED for www.csef.ca and was interested to see if there is anyone in this forum that writes about Social Entrepreneurship or has been following the development of the sector?

Does anyone have any examples of profitable Social Entrepreneurial ventures? An example would be http://www.grameen-info.org/ or www.benetech.org .


Thanks!

[akula]

sure, just have a look at the holdings of ethical mutual funds

althought, most of these wouldn't be nascent companies

you could get some sponsorship from them however

socally responsible companies begat social responsible startups

[buynick]

What's Social Entrepreneurship?

[NeeJam]

What's Social Entrepreneurship?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship

[akula]

it's an anathema

[Minio]

^^
lol why you say that?

Edit: Just now noticied.

Does anyone have any examples of profitable Social Entrepreneurial ventures?

That question is sort of paradoxical lol.

Anyways, here is one I like: http://kiva.org

[buynick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship

Interesting, so aren't most non-profit founders Social Entrepreneurs? I am forming a non-profit to support planting trees along highways (in Indiana we don't have many along highways as opposed to other states I have traveled to that do).