This course will help prepare students to understand the context of, participate in, create, develop and lead socially entrepreneurial organizations and initiatives.
The term "social entrepreneurship" means many different things to many people. In general, most agree that social entrepreneurship refers to innovative responses to social needs that create social change. Social entrepreneurship is not sector specific - it can occur in nonprofit, for-profit, and government entities as well as in "hybrids" and partnerships. We will treat the term in its most expanded description while continuing to ask ourselves as the course progresses, "What does social entrepreneurship mean? How broadly should we define its boundaries? How does it differ from other kinds of entrepreneurial activity? Other kinds of social change? How has it evolved over time? Where does it fit into our broader society?"