Presented by:

Michael Cecchi
Till Hemmerich
Ross Ionta
 • Social entrepreneurs
are:
• 1.) Ambitious
• 2.) Mission driven
• 3.) Strategic
• 4.) Resourceful
• 5.) Results oriented

http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • Tackle major issues
• Operate in all kinds of
organizations:
– Innovative non-profits
– Social purpose
ventures
– Hybrid organizations

http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • Generating social
value, not wealth
• Wealth creation is not
an end in itself
• Promoting systematic
social change

http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • See & act upon what
others miss
– Opportunities to
improve systems
– Create solutions
– Invent new approaches
that create social value
• Focused in their
pursuit of a social
vision
http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • Social entrepreneurs
operate within a social
context
– Limited access to
capital and traditional
market support
systems
• Skilled at mustering
and mobilizing human,
financial and political
http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • Driven to produce
measurable returns
• Results:
– Transform existing
realities
– Open up new pathways
for the marginalized &
disadvantaged
– Unlock society’s
potential to affect
social change
http://www.skollfoundation.org/aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp
 • Goal was to creatively
salvage materials from the
10,000 abandoned houses
the city is demolishing over
the next 10 years
• Saved hundreds of tons of
building waste and also
hired young adults to collect
materials and sell them in
the ReUse store, ReSource
• Excess building material can
be used from art to
woodworking to refinishing
to welding and metalwork →
creates opportunities for
artisans.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html
 • Opened his family’s front porch
and basement as a makeshift
community center for drifting
young people in Brooklyn
• Mobilized young people in his
neighborhood to go door to door
to raise money to rent their own
community center (2002)
– They gathered $25,000 in a little
more than two weeks and
started Team Revolution
• Team revolution now operates
many programs including
workshops on financial basics
and community mural painting.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html
 • AstroTots is a space
and science camps for
girls 4 to 10 years old
• Camps have
expanded to 10 states
• Started AstroTots to
show girls that they
could go into sciences
→ wasn’t a boy’s job

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html
 • Poeuv was born in a Thai
refugee camp to Cambodian
parents who fled the Khmer
Rouge
• Her curiosity about her
parents’ long silence led her
to make a film about her
personal history, called
“New Year Baby”
• ‘‘Khmer Legacies’’ is a
project in which children
interview their parents about
surviving the Cambodian
genocide and which she
hopes will result in 10,000
videotaped testimonials
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/09/magazine/0309-FACES_index.html