1. SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
By: Dr. Hope P. Lapating
MBAH 10 B
AGSB
March 9, 2013

2. What is Social Entrepreneurship?
• Identifying or recognizing a social problem and
using entrepreneurial principles to organize,
create, and manage a social venture to achieved a
desired social change.
• Typically furthers broad social, cultural, and
environment goals and is commonly associated
with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors.
• Promoted by BILL DRAYTON, the founder of
ASHOKA: Innovators for the Public in 1980.

3. Noteworthy people whose work
exemplifies classic “Social
Entrepreneurship ”
1. Susan B. Anthony (US) – fought for Women’s
Rights in the US, including the right to control
property.
2. Vinoba Bhave (India) – founder and leader of the
Land Gift Movement, caused the redistribution of
more than 7,000 acres of land to India’s untouchables
and landless.
3. Florence Nightingale (UK) – founder of modern
nursing, established the first school for nurses and
fought to improve hospital conditions.
4. Jean Monnet (France) – responsible for the
construction of the French economy following World
War.

4. • Before, NGO’s and charities were “cash burn”
affairs”!
- donor fatigue resulted in lower fund
generation and total fund shutdown.
• Difficulties of NGO’s
- drying up of sources of finds from USA
and Europe due to their own financial crisis and
needs
- most of executive time spent on fund
generation.

6. • New Business model is needed:
- Sustainability
- Profit motive needed to support activities
- From purely non-profit to profit
• Any creative and innovative solution applied to
solve problems (Mohammad Yunus, 2007)
- It involves social mission
- profit and/entrepreneurial processes
“ Search for approaches to move poor people out
of poverty beyond welfare-based safety nets.”

7. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN THE PHILIPPINES
1.) The Jesuits and Ateneo University are leaders
in social entrepreneurship.
- Ateneo School of Government
Dean Antonio Lavina is an Ashoka fellow
and pioneer in social entrepreneurship in the
Philippines.
2.) Rags2Riches
- Uplifting the lives of families at Payatas garbage
dump.

8. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN THE PHILIPPINES
3.) Human Nature
- Ana Menoloto Wills
4.) My Shelter Foundation
- Mr. Ilac Diaz
- Pier One-a sustainable lodging place for seafarers waiting
for their place, ENT while in Manila.
- Peanut shellers – made peanut shelling faster and lucrative
for Pampanga residents living off on peanuts.
- House made of mud and other local materials to make it
affordable

9. • UNLAD KABAYAN MIGRANT
SERVICES FOUNDATION
- Founded in 1996 by Maria Villalba
- works closely with migrants working
overseas and the entrepreneurial poor living in
the Philippines, providing education in
economic issues and training in business skills.

10. CHAMELEON Association, Inc.
• Created in 1977 by a French national Laurence
Ligier, in Passi City, Iloilo.
• It is a non-stock, non-profit, NGO set to
provide safe and wholesome environment, for
girls 5 to below 18 years old, aimed to heal and
strengthen them from traumatic experience.

11. CHAMELEON Association, Inc.
• It is haven where abused children can rebuild
their broken lives.
• Despite daunting challenges, Chameleon
remained steadfast and committed in the
mission of her founder of taking action and
fighting child abuse in the Philippines.

12. CHAMELEON Association, Inc.
• It extends its services to help build self-reliant
and child friendly families and communities
through Sponsorship, Advocacy and
Networking.
• The association gives the girls access to
education, medical and psychological treatment
programs, as well as legal help.

13. CHAMELEON Association, Inc.
• As of date, Chameleon caters to 90 girls in the
residential rehabilitation; 105 reintegrated girls in
the post residential rehabilitation; and
community based sponsored children.
• Girls should be able to adjust and respond easily
to the challenges in life, to change their skin of
the wounded past, just like the

17. • Rather than leaving societal sneers to the
government or business sectors, social
entrepreneurs find what is not working and
solve the problem by changing the system, the
solution, and persuading entire societies to take
new leaps.

18. REFERENCES:
• WIKEPEDIA
• ASHOKA: Innovators for the Public
• Prof Jorge slideshare
• www.cameleon-association.org