Betsy Goulet, Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Student, University of Illinois, Springfield, will discuss the importance of collabora-tion amid the new reality of shrinking budgets where agencies, nonprofits and social service programs are being forced to do more with less. She will share information about the role of social entrepreneurship as an innovative strategy for social change in the development of partnerships among nonprofits, government, universities and corporations.

1. Social Entrepreneurship Mobilizing, Innovating and Collaborating for Social Change Betsy Goulet Instructor, Public Administration , University of Illinois Springfield

2. Social Entrepreneurship

3. Social Entrepreneurship

4. ASHOKA Social Entrepreneurship

5. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” Social Entrepreneurship

6. An Illustration SE In Practice

7. Team Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship

8. Networked Nonprofits Mission. Mission. Mission. Social Entrepreneurship

9. “Aggregating Capital, Sharing Expertise, Coordinating Programs, and Creating a Unified Agenda” Short et. al (2009) Social Entrepreneurship

10. “And most importantly, the courage and humility needed to pursue mission-serving collaborations are often painfully absent from the organizations we celebrate as exemplary social enterprises.”Deitz (2010) Social Entrepreneurship

12. Importance

13. Interdependence

14. Information

15. Integration

16. IntegritySocial Entrepreneurship

17. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”Margaret Mead Social Entrepreneurship