Photo by: Anh Thu Le
Anh Thư Lê with her team in a community event
Social entrepreneurs:
passionate but not
sustainable?
Social entrepreneurs are get-
ting younger. Most new comers
are from the millennial gener-
ation who consider it as both a
passion and a business. Young
people today are growing im-
patient with social problems
and feel a great need to create
their own change. However,
most of their social adventures
end at an early stage or fail
to scale up. Overtime, when
change-makers are struggling
with financial difficulties and
when initial passions burn out
but the expected social im-
pact has not been realized, all
things get stuck and initiatives
become totally unsustainable.
The challenge most social en-
trepreneurs face is how to keep
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a passion and turn it into a sus- anthropic foundations with a
tainable social enterprise.
budget less than 10,000 USD
per year. Due to lack of finan-
Social entrepreneur- cial resources, it is extremely
for them to sur-
ship: from “0” to “1” challenging
vive, let alone scale up. With-
out scaling up, it is impossible
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