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June 30, 2009 / compassioninpolitics

Social Entrepreneurship Syllabus

Syllabus for the Study and Practice of Social Business

Social Entrepreneurship Class Schedule

Week 1: What is social entrepreneurship

Week 2: Funding social entrepreneurship + business models + bootstrapping

Week 3: Marketing and social entrepreneurship

Week 4: Leaders in social entrepreneurship

Week 5: Social entrepreneurship case studies (presentations/projects)

Week 6: Social entrepreneurship and the base of the pyramid (BOP)

Week 7: Struggles of the social entrepreneur

Week 8: Debates in social entrepreneurship

Week 9: Social movements + Non-profits

Week 10: Micro-leading + savings

Week 11: Scaling your social enterprise + Collaboration

Week 12: Pick a sector any sector (student opportunity for direction + choice)

Week 13: Social entrepreneurship 2.0: Trends in social entrepreneurship

Week 14: Design Your Own (Student Projects + Presentations)

Social Entrepreneurship Books for the Class

The Power of Unreasonable People
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, by Jacqueline Novogratz
Select Essays from Design for the Other 90 Percent
Select Chapters from Out of Poverty by Paul Polack
Select Chapters from Banker to the Poor by Mohammed Yunnus
Select Articles from The Next 4 from Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy for the Base of the Pyramid by the World Resources Institute

Social Entrepreneurship Resources and Bibliography

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Changemakers @ Ashoka
Next Billion
Social Entrepreneurship @ Change.org
Design for the Other 90 Percent
e-clips at Cornell
Stanford E-corner
Corporate Social Responsibility @ CSR Wire
Social Entrepreneurship at Alltop
Case Place
Top Social Entrepreneurs by Fast Company
Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs by Business Week
Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke
Trends in Social Entrepreneurship (version 1.0)
Trends in Social Entrepreneurship (version 2.0)
TED Talks
Creative Capitalism
Philanthrocapitalism

Micro-enterprise, micro-franchise, and micro-loaning

To be added….
Any suggestions for this or other parts?

One caveat: sorry this isn’t a traditional 15 to 18 week schedule, but hopefully it can help generate some ideas around social entrepreneurship. Also, I think its useful, because all the weeks to be added can be student generated or work time.

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  1. compassioninpolitics / Jun 30 2009 7:06 pm

    This social entrepreneurship syllabus sampler that I created and compiled might also prove helpful:
    http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/social-entrepreneurship-syllabus-sampler/

  2. Nick T / Jul 1 2009 11:07 am

    As with previous sampler, I would suggest that there is much of interest beyond the United States. See various UK universities + learning programmes such as our own; see Skills for Social Entrepreneurs pilot in Beijing; see Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, UnLtd, SELF (Germany), Center for Social Innovation (Canada), University of Bologna etc etc

  3. compassioninpolitics / Sep 5 2009 8:35 pm

    Fantastic resources! Agreed. Thanks.

    Sorry for the omission, I’m just more familiar with more US based examples.

  4. compassioninpolitics / Jan 17 2010 12:57 am

    Interesting insight from a teacher at MIT, with some overlap directly S.E. related issues.
    http://www.maximizingprogress.org/

  5. Nathan Ketsdever / Apr 24 2010 1:02 am

    I also ran across some presentations at the Harvard Business School specific to social enterprise:

    http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/pdf/CreatingSEBPlan.pdf

    http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/pdf/

  6. Nathan Ketsdever / May 31 2010 5:56 pm

    This project seems interesting: the Two Dollar Challenge in which students learn what its like to live on $2 a day:

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1153568

    Here is the Two Dollar Challenge website:
    http://www.twodollarchallenge.org/about/

  7. compassioninpolitics / Nov 22 2010 6:13 pm

    For the African technology (IT) and mobile space this ebook/whitepaper is pretty good. It also speaks more generally about design for the developing world near the beginning:
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/29902948/Essays%C2%A0on%C2%A0African%C2%A0Tech%C2%A0Volume%C2%A01%C2%A0On%C2%A0Innovation

  8. compassioninpolitics / Jan 4 2011 7:49 pm

    I’ve compiled a list of social entrepreneurship research here. I think its quite useful:

    http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/academic-social-entrepreneurship-research/

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