Dr. Jorge Vanegas
Rash realities of our generation
· Huge population
· Lack of resources for the population
· Too many vehicles
· Too much “stuff”
· Too much poverty (Haiti, Mumbai, India)
· Too much environmental impacts (smog, water contamination)
· High levels of vulnerability
· Too many social disparities
Companies- Millennium Project of WFUNA, Engineering Challenges (National Academy of Engineering), Fast Company, Better World Books (reselling books), Developing World Markets (loans to underprivileged people, ex-giving a poor woman money to purchase a sewing machine for her to create her own business), Equal Exchange (fair trade coffee), Herman Miller (easily disassembled and recycled office furniture), New Leaf Paper, Organic Valley Family of Farms (National Marketing Network), Seventh Generation, Sustainability, Accion International, Acumen Fund, Aspire Public Schools, Building Educated Leaders for Life, Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Ceres, Citizen Schools, City Year, Civic Builders, Civic Ventures, Common Ground, etc.
Examples of Social Entrepreneur- Skoll Foundation, Schwab Foundation, Launchpad
· Goal- to benefit disadvantage communities, pioneer innovative and systematic approaches, to capture a unique approach to economic and social problems.
· Definition on a social entrepreneur- A pragmatic visionary who achieves a large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these. Ex. Richard Branson and Mother Teresa
· Traits included- an unwavering belief in the innate capacity of all people, a driving passion to make that happen, they are practical, yet they also take risks, a zeal to measure and monitor their impact, a healthy impatience. THEY ARE THE CHANGE DRIVERS.
Purpose of this lecture- social innovation project (DELL competition)
CHUD- Program at Texas A&M University
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