to have some kind of paradigm vis-à-vis the issues you
are trying to impact and focus on those.
Q. eBay Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, Skoll Global Threats
Foundation ...what’s next?
All of the organizations in the Jeff Skoll Group are at
different stages – Participant alone is growing like
crazy. We have 70 people there and have released 23
movies in the last five years. Right now, we have more
than 40 in production.
Trying to work out how we integrate these different
entities so that each reinforces the other is important.
So, for Larry Brilliant at the Skoll Global Threats Fund
to be able to draw on Capricorn to do due diligence on
certain deals relating to climate change is invaluable.
To be able to tell stories about the various social
entrepreneurs we work with, and then through
Participant build these into the campaigns we run, is
important.
For now, to be smarter and more collaborative in
what we do as a group is the next challenge.
Neill Duffy (WPO Le Mess Euro), SEN Day Chair @
Skoll World Forum), is chairman and founder of “for
purpose” social marketing agency Tribe Management.
Tribe focuses on raising capital, in all its forms, for
organizations with a social and/or environmental mission.
www.tribemanagement.eu
who is a social entrepreneur?
commercial or social
in orientation, are cut
from the same cloth:
resourceful, pragmatic,
innovative, visionary.
In that sense, the term
‘social entrepreneur’ has
done entrepreneursso-designated a
disservice, as people
often classify them
alongside ‘do-gooders’
that deliver palliative
social services. Yet all
entrepreneurs, social or
otherwise, are driven
by the opportunity to
solve a problem. Social
entrepreneurship is
based on three key
concepts:
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SOCIAL FOCUS
The primary mission of the individual, network or
organization is to create social and/or environmental
change. Organizations may take different forms: some
non-profit, some hybrid social businesses, some for-profit.
The choice of structure is a function of its social mission
and the business model applied to achieving that mission.
2|
INNOVATION
A social entrepreneur may develop new products or
services, use existing products and services in new, more
socially productive ways, or redefine social problems and
suggest radical new ideas to solve them.
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Social Entrepreneur
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Social
entrepreneurs
create organizations
that are efficient,
transparent and have
measurable impact. They
have the potential to
disrupt assumptions and
conventional business
models and signal
changes to how value
can be defined and cocreated. In essence, they
forge new models for
how value is created for
society, rather than only
focusing on how financial
wealth is accumulated
for managers and
shareholders.
Entrepreneurs,
whether primarily
[
An innovator with a market-orientated approach to social and environmental problems.
3|
MARKET-ORIENTATION
A social entrepreneur adopts a performance-driven
and competitive approach to solving social and
environmental problems. This may include making use
of commercial markets or commercial approaches.
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