Social Entrepreneurship

At the heart of many of the world’s most innovative approaches to addressing poverty, illiteracy, hunger and thirst are visionary social entrepreneurs, devoting themselves to the bottom lines of empowerment, economic opportunity, sustainability and change. They may not yet be quoted on the Nasdaq, S&P and FTSE, but social entrepreneurs are beacons of hope in addressing the looming social crisis that could derail globalisation. This quote is taken from a great blog site-http://www.seeingthepossibilities.com/ This is the blog of Robert Davies, CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum.

About 2 years ago I went on a course at GIBS called " Built to Last" where the term Social Entrepreneur was defined as a follows: A person who is passionate about bringing about social change and money is not their driving object.

We need many of this type of person in South Africa to help bring about the change needed to make this a great nation.