NOTE: This article was originally published on the RECODE website and has been cross-posted with permission. Written by: Susan Grossman Director | Centre for Community Engaged Learning, The University of British Columbia
Bow Valley College and Women In Need Society (WINS) have partnered to launch a new on-campus thrift store that combines affordability, sustainability, and hands-on learning. The initiative gives students access to low-cost essentials while creating real-world learning opportunities in social enterprise and community impact.
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We define social entrepreneurship as using business models (selling a good or service) to enhance social impact. This reflects most Canadian definitions.
Many see the social and the entrepreneurial as being in opposition, like two sides of a scale that needs to be balanced. Instead, we see the social and the entrepreneurial as partners in progress.
We support a social entrepreneurship movement that dares to ask, “How far could we go in solving the world’s problems, and even fulfilling our potential as human beings, if we fully harnessed the power of business models to enhance social impact?”
NOTE: This article was originally published on the RECODE website and has been cross-posted with permission. Written by: Susan Grossman Director | Centre for Community Engaged Learning, The University of British Columbia
The Trico Charitable Foundation is committed to this program as we believe that by bringing some of the best and brightest examples of social entrepreneurship from around the world to Calgary will help galvanize the local the conversation, bring business opportunities to YYC and, perhaps most importantly, showcase amazing local social ventures and help them gain the insights they need to take their efforts to the next level. Here are some key insights from the 2016 edition of The World of Social Entrepreneurship.
We were excited to share his views on using Lean Startup thinking to drive social and technical innovation and were honoured to have hosted him on Sept 16th, 2016 as the Keynote Speaker for Social Entrepreneurship Day.
The Skoll Centre at the University of Oxford; RECODE, an initiative of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation; and the Trico Charitable Foundation, are partnering to bring the Global Challenge to Canada. We're inviting Canadian higher education institutions to run the Global Challenge at their school, with the support of tools provided by the Skoll Centre. The Global Challenge offers students and recent graduates the opportunity to learn more about the issues they care about and present their findings to the world - and win some awesome prizes!