2. ENTREPRENEURS V SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH
HOW TO BE SUSTAINABLE
3. There are a lot of entrepreneurs in the world.
Over 650,000 small businesses in NSW
employing up to 20 people
An entrepreneur typically develops a business
based on their own ideas or passion with the intent of onselling.
4. A social entrepreneur stands out for their
focus to achieve a goal that really is about
their want to change the world or improve conditions
for their own community – family and friends.
They’re in it for the long haul – most social entrepreneurs
do not take bonuses, or kick backs, they put all their
heart, soul and profit into reaching their purpose.
5. “By encouraging young people to become social
business entrepreneurs they contribute to the
world, rather than just making money.
7. • An entrepreneur has the imagination to identify new
opportunities and determination to bring them to
fruition.
8. • An entrepreneur has the imagination to identify new
opportunities and determination to bring them to
fruition.
• A social entrepreneur does so for public good rather
than private profit.
9. WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
social enterprises are businesses that trade for a
social, environmental or cultural purpose . . .
• generate a substantial portion of their income
through trading
• reinvest the majority of their profit / surplus (non-
distributing)
Social enterprise is about practice
– how you do what you do!
10. COMMON PURPOSES
• employment - provide employment, training and
support for marginalised groups;
- Intermediate Labour Market
- Long-term Labour Market e.g. Social Firms
• service delivery - create or retain services in response to
social or economic needs
• income generation - generate profits to support
community or not for profit activities
11. WHAT IS A COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE?
• Community enterprises are formed from activities
within a charitable organisation creating income
• Provision of social inclusion, skill development and
potentially sustainable source of income
• Reinvest takings into producing more product
• Also potential for auspice/incubation to become a
social enterprise
13. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR THE YOUTH SECTOR
• Opportunities to focus the purpose of a social enterprise
to address the needs of Youth
• Entrepreneur development (preferably social)
• Homework assistance
• Reading, education
• Social skill development
• Developing employable skills – after school work
• Juvenile re-offender skill development
• Fitness / Wellbeing / Health
14. EXAMPLE ONE CAN GROW
• Entrepreneur: Gina May Diana
• One Can Grow is a values-based, not-for-profit social
enterprise, dedicated to empowering Young people by
teaching Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Are a Sydney-based organization building the next
generation of future changemakers, conducting fun,
interactive and educational workshops to build the capacity
of young social pioneers.
• onecangrow.org.au
15. EXAMPLE FIFTEEN (THE KITCHEN CAT)
• Entrepreneur: Jamie Oliver / Tobie Puttock
• Fifteen restaurant created by British chef Jamie Oliver in
London, has been managed in Melbourne by Tobie Puttcok
since 2008 and offers disadvantaged, marginalised young
people an opportunity to train as chefs.
• It reopened as The Kitchen Cat in January 2011 maintaining
its original role as a social enterprise with newly created
Stepping Stone Foundation – now extending to include other
Melbourne restaurants.
16. EXAMPLE STREET UNIVERSITY
• Entrepreneur: Matt Noffs
• Street University works with young people who would not
otherwise engage with mainstream self-development.
• Drawing on the aims, resources and expertise of various fields
including Education, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Crime Prevention,
and Mental Health.
• Street University develops the human and social capital needed
to create an energy-positive community that grows itself.
• Runs educational, recreational and arts-based programs on
anything from literacy to linguistics, screening films to philosophy
17. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR THE YOUTH SECTOR
What can you do? Look within your communities
• Opportunities to focus the purpose of a social enterprise
to address the needs of Youth
• Entrepreneur development (preferably social)
• Homework assistance
• Reading, education
• Social skill development
• Developing employable skills – after school work
• Juvenile re-offender skill development
• Fitness / Wellbeing / Health
18. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BY THE YOUTH SECTOR
• Opportunities to support youth to find their entrepreneurial
social purpose
• Entrepreneur development (preferably social)
• Skill based – cabinet making, headphones
• Reading, education – potentially in third world or remote
communities
• Bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy Pyramid
• Fitness / Wellbeing / Health
• Coffee, Food, Environment, Arts
Support their dreams of a better world
– with good business sustainability!
19. EXAMPLE THANK YOU WATER
• Entrepreneur: Dan Flynn
• Sell bottled water in Australia. 365 days a year, 7 days a
week, 24 hours a day to fund clean water projects in
developing nations.
• Every bottle sold provides at least one months worth of safe
water to someone in need.
• Thankyou Water works on a ‘projects based model’ with
established non-government
organisations that have a proven
track record in sustainable water
development.
20. EXAMPLE PALLETABLE FURNITURE
• Entrepreneur: Philip Clarke
• Furniture built by youth at risk in Sydney as part of work
skills training
• This is an outreach based project, co-ordinated and taught
by Philip Clarke, a hands on approach helping hard core
youth at risk of homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse and
mental illness.
• Currently works with kids through
Father Chris O'Rielly's Youth Off
The Streets and other...
community funded organisations.
21. HOW TO BE SUSTAINABLE
• Have a clear link between model and change to be made
• Good market research
• Blended Inputs
• Grants
• Trade
• Contracts
• Donations
• Fee for service
• In-kind
• Loans
• Take a part time job
• No one approach
• End user not always your client
• Maintain focus
• PLAN!
22. Get the ‘why’ right!
Be clear on why it is you want to start a social enterprise
as you will need to keep coming back to it
again and again.
Aleem Ali – Founder/Director, Human Ventures
23. THINGS YOU CAN DO . . .
• Keep a look out for potentials,
keep an open mind about who they might be
• Encourage feasibility studies, market research, brainstorming
and business plans - develop relationships with local
business service providers such as BEC
• Support entrepreneurs and enterprises - act in
auspice/incubation capacities
• Assist them with seed-funding grant applications
• Talk with your Community Capacity Development Officer at
Parramatta Council
24. EDUCATION
• School for Social Entrepreneurs
• Centre for Social Innovation
• Social Traders
• Social Enterprises Sydney
• Business Enterprise Centres
• NEIS
• Vibewire
25. “A mind is like an umbrella
- only useful when open.”
- Anon.
27. For more information
Community Capacity Building Team
Parramatta City Council
P: 9806 5138
W: http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au/work/
doing_business_in_parra/social_enterprise
