Social Entrepreneurs

I’m a Social Entrepreneur. Now you may be asking yourself just what that means – what is a social entrepreneur?

Well, social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Social entrepreneurs look for what’s not working and solve the problem, spread the solution and persuading others to take up new challenges that will benefit everyone.

Most social entrepreneurs have a strong desire to be of service to humanity. They want win-win solutions than make changes in the lives of people that may otherwise never have an opportunity to actively participate in society or to reach their full potential.

Why did I become a social entrepreneur? Because I believe that one person can make a difference – especially if they can inspire others to assist in addressing the needs of vulnerable people who might otherwise slip through the cracks.

In order to fulfil my mission as a social entrepreneur I needed to find a nonprofit that had the same vision I did. Well, after looking for quite some time I realised that I would have to put myself on the line. Social entrepreneurs aren’t cowards but the job before me was daunting. As luck would have it I met a few people that believed in the same vision. Long story short…the Utopia Research Institute was created.

Entrepreneurial non-profit organisations like the Utopia Research Institute are born to generate sustainable change for the better. People are attracted to it because they know that the Utopia Research Institute is innovative, community oriented and dedicated enough to fill the gaps by tackling the root cause…call it social accountability.

This ‘social accountability’ includes ‘social return on investment’. That’s the estimate of the total social and economic value and community impact generated by the Utopia Research Institute. And yes, it’s measurable.

Changes in society and in communities are often referred to as the causal processes through which change comes about as a result of a program’s strategies and action. In a non-profit context it relates to how we believe individual, group or social changes happen and how, specifically, our actions will produce positive social results both in humans and as a financial outcome for the whole of society.

It takes hard work, commitment and loads of passion for a social entrepreneur to reach their goal and they never do it all by themselves.  So, if you’re interested in making a difference during your lifetime…drop me a line.