Social Entrepreneurship is About Innovation and Impact, Not Income (2003)
Author: Dees, J. Gregory
URL: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/articles/1004/corner.htm
Source: Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
In this article, Dees challenges the view that social entrepreneurship must be identified with nonprofits generating earned-income. According to Dees, "Despite efforts to spread an innovation-based definition, far too many people still think of social entrepreneurship in terms of nonprofits generating earned income. This is a dangerously narrow view. It shifts attention away from the ultimate goal of any self-respecting social entrepreneur, namely social impact, and focuses it on one particular method of generating resources." The author argues that organizations that are socially entrepreneurial have "pioneered creative ways of addressing social problems and marshaled the resources to support their work." Dees concludes, "In the end, social entrepreneurship must be about creating social value, not simply about making money." The article can be found at the website of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. The article originally appeared on The Skoll Foundation's Social Edge website in September of 2003.
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