Social Entrepreneurship
In: Business Issues, Competition and Entrepreneurship
Intro -- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CONCEPTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PROBLEM SOLVING -- Summary -- Introduction -- Social Entrepreneurship: Application of Business Principles -- Market Mechanisms -- Joining "Social" Aims to "Entrepreneurial" Behavior -- What Do Social Entrepreneurs Do? -- Defining Social Entrepreneurship -- Competing Approaches: How Useful Are They? -- Case Studies -- Education-Teach for America34 -- Foreign Policy-Middle Eastern Youth -- Economic Opportunity-Delancey Street Foundation -- Impact and Analysis -- Issues for Congress -- Legislative History -- The Social Innovation Fund -- Other Legislation -- Legislative Options -- Issues for further Analysis -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GOVERNMENT: A NEW BREED OF ENTREPRENEURS DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- Synopsis -- Introduction. Social Entrepreneurship Enters the Public Eye -- What is Social Entrepreneurship? -- The Private Sector -- The Public Sector -- The Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector41 -- Blurring Sectors: Trends Creating Fertile Ground for Social Entrepreneurship to Emerge -- Social Entrepreneurship Emerges at the Nexus -- Response to Market Failures -- No Market -- Limited Market -- Low-profit Market -- Transformative Innovations -- Financial Sustainability -- Nonfinancial resources -- Predictable revenue sources -- Case Studies of Social-Entrepreneurial Approaches to Solving Social Problems -- Resolve to Stop the Violence Program (RSVP) : A No-Market Approach to Reducing Recidivism -- Market Failure -- Transformative Innovation -- Financial Sustainability -- Triangle Resident Options for Substance Abusers Inc. (TROSA): A Limited-Market Approach to Long-term Substance-Abuse Treatment -- Market Failure -- Transformative Innovation