Training social entrepreneurs and innovators are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout the world highlighting the need for effective pedagogical strategies with robust outcomes. Research suggests that understanding what it takes to become a social entrepreneur is beyond just acquiring knowledge and skills to act entrepreneurially. This paper summarizes social identity and self-efficacy theories. A framework sets forth categories and applies data from student narratives as they develop these qualities. Results from an alumni self-study provide social identity and self-efficacy evidence. These results support our supposition that in the context of new social innovation, students’ curricular and co-curricular experiences lead to the development of identities, self-efficacy and increase their ability to affect positive social change. This research and presentation were created for the Society of Business Research Nashville, TN Conference on October 23rd-25th, 2014.