Social Entrepreneurship
Late G K Swamy | Founder | Purkal Youth Development Society, DehradunWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?
A Career in Social Entrepreneurship is very intriguing. Understanding Why one wants to choose a Career in Social Entrepreneurship is phenomenally more important than figuring out How to get into Social Entrepreneurship. While anyone can have an opinion on what Social Entrepreneurship entails; only a real professional can really explain it.
Founder Late G K Swamy invested 18 years & 1 month in Social Entrepreneurship. Founder Late G K Swamy outlines Social Entrepreneurship as:
Social entrepreneurship is the use of the techniques by start up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs.
How Founder Late G K Swamy got into Social Entrepreneurship?
I started Purakal Youth Development Society, a fee free school for poor children in 1998. The School has now grown to over 500 students.
Founder Late G K Swamy's Talk on Social Entrepreneurship |
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Starts with what is: | |
1) | Social Entrepreneurship |
Next, it covers Education. This Talk is unique because it talks about Education in terms of things which can be learnt from books, to excel at a Career in Social Entrepreneurship and not as a list of Qualifications, which one needs to get into Social Entrepreneurship. Here is a list of Education items required for Social Entrepreneurship: | |
2) | Contextual Knowledge |
3) | Management |
4) | Law |
5) | Accounting |
Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Social Entrepreneurship demands specific Skills which only an experienced professional can lay out. It details these topics within Skills for Social Entrepreneurship: | |
6) | Networking |
7) | Communication |
8) | Motivation |
Positives of Social Entrepreneurship motivate one to work hard for the same. This Talk defines Positives in terms of following items for Social Entrepreneurship: | |
9) | Self Actualization |
10) | Self Transcendence |
Challenges are the other side of Positives and Social Entrepreneurship is no exception: | |
11) | Challenges of Entrepreneurship |
12) | 100% Surrender |
13) | Personal priorities at backseat |
14) | Personal Conduct |
In the final section of the Talk, Late G K Swamy talks about How a day goes in a Career in: | |
15) | Social Entrepreneurship |
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Social Entrepreneurship?
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Links for this Talk
LifePage Career Talk on Social Entrepreneurship

[Career]
https://www.lifepage.in/careers/social-entrepreneurship-1

[Full Talk]
https://lifepage.app.link/20161128-0001

[Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC97QEMyudM
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