Resources for Teaching Social Entrepreneurship
Presentation
The presentation gives a brief overview of what social entrepreneurship is.
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Social Entrepreneurship Lesson
Using Business to Make a Better World
In this activity, students work in groups to assess where businesses are on spectrums related to the goals of the organizations. They learn about various approaches to giving back to the world while running a business. They recognize that the best approach is matter of perspective. They critically think about the level of community benefit of the approaches to philanthropy. They also learn that business can be more than just a money generating enterprise. Their assigned goal is to determine the extent that a firm's business activities should be viewed on three criteria -social mission, contribution to society, sustainability - by ranking businesses.
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Economic Development Lesson
This activity is a great one to use to introduce scarcity of resources and economic development to your students. Please send edits if you have suggestions. It has proven to be very successful with college and high school students.
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Economic Terminology
The attached file has definitions that are useful to teachers. You can use these for class activities or to help students with assignments. They make it easy for you if you want to define a term.
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Books
1. Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know, by David Bornstein and Susan Davis. Appropriate for all students.
2. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs, by Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber (winners of the Nobel Peace Prize). Appropriate for Advanced Placement students.
3. How to Change the Word: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, updated edition by David Bornstein. Appropriate for average and advance placement students.
4. Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People, edited by Bettina Stiekel. This book is written at a junior high reading level and is appropriate for all students. This book is not specifically about social entrepreneurship but many of the essays are good discussion starters connecting history, leaders of the world, innovation, problem solving, and business.
2. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs, by Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber (winners of the Nobel Peace Prize). Appropriate for Advanced Placement students.
3. How to Change the Word: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, updated edition by David Bornstein. Appropriate for average and advance placement students.
4. Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People, edited by Bettina Stiekel. This book is written at a junior high reading level and is appropriate for all students. This book is not specifically about social entrepreneurship but many of the essays are good discussion starters connecting history, leaders of the world, innovation, problem solving, and business.
Children's Books (At the high school level, these books are used as an introduction activity to the concept of social entrepreneurship)
Download the file below to use with the following 5 children's books.
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1. One Hen, by Katie Smith Milway
Click the links below for additional lessons/activities to go with the book from the One Hen website.
http://onehen.opportunity.org/
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=910&
2. The Good Garden, by Katie Smith Milway
Click the link below for additional lessons/activities to go with the book from The Good Garden website.
http://www.thegoodgarden.org/index.php
3. Planting the Trees of Kenya, by Claire A. Nivola
4. One Well, by Rochelle Strauss
5. Beatrice's Goat, by Page McBrier
Click the links below for additional lessons/activities to go with the book from the One Hen website.
http://onehen.opportunity.org/
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lid=910&
2. The Good Garden, by Katie Smith Milway
Click the link below for additional lessons/activities to go with the book from The Good Garden website.
http://www.thegoodgarden.org/index.php
3. Planting the Trees of Kenya, by Claire A. Nivola
4. One Well, by Rochelle Strauss
5. Beatrice's Goat, by Page McBrier
Podcasts
Pocasts are a great way to use technolgoy for students to learn about a new concept, current issues, etc... You can search on the Internet for Social Entrepreneurship Podcasts. Below are a list of a few from Public Radio International.
1. Trash to Treasure
2. Zero Waste Green Grocer
3. Can Peer Pressure Be a Force for Good?
4. A Contest to Create Jobs
5. The Town That Food Saved
6. What will it take to power the future?
1. Trash to Treasure
2. Zero Waste Green Grocer
3. Can Peer Pressure Be a Force for Good?
4. A Contest to Create Jobs
5. The Town That Food Saved
6. What will it take to power the future?
Videos
There are a lot of videos on the Internet or ones you can purchase to help teach social entrepreneurship.
Videos to Purchase:
1. The New Heroes: Their Bottom Line is Lives, hosted by Robert Redford, Oregon Public Broadcasting
2. Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Series, see description below in YouTube Videos
3. An Inconvenient Truth, see description below in YouTube Videos
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Legacy Gallery Videos
The following video series is specific to Arkansas but the Rockefeller family is known throughout the U.S. If the videos listed below are not available online at http://www.livethelegacy.org, you can contact the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute to request a DVD of the video series.
The Arkansas Rockefeller, 6 films made for the 50th anniversary celebration of Winthrop Rockefeller’s arrival in Arkansas
1. A Desire for Change
2. A Two-Party System
3. Racial Moderation
4. A Two-Term Governor
5. A Progressive Spirit
6. A Leader in Philanthropy
YouTube Videos
1. Key Traits of Social Entrepreneurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV7wn77QLMc&feature=player_embedded
An interview with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility. Social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results -- and capturing the imaginations of businesspeople and public policy makers.
Videos to Purchase:
1. The New Heroes: Their Bottom Line is Lives, hosted by Robert Redford, Oregon Public Broadcasting
2. Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Series, see description below in YouTube Videos
3. An Inconvenient Truth, see description below in YouTube Videos
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Legacy Gallery Videos
The following video series is specific to Arkansas but the Rockefeller family is known throughout the U.S. If the videos listed below are not available online at http://www.livethelegacy.org, you can contact the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute to request a DVD of the video series.
The Arkansas Rockefeller, 6 films made for the 50th anniversary celebration of Winthrop Rockefeller’s arrival in Arkansas
1. A Desire for Change
2. A Two-Party System
3. Racial Moderation
4. A Two-Term Governor
5. A Progressive Spirit
6. A Leader in Philanthropy
YouTube Videos
1. Key Traits of Social Entrepreneurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV7wn77QLMc&feature=player_embedded
An interview with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility. Social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results -- and capturing the imaginations of businesspeople and public policy makers.
2. Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQnYEzCVIGA&feature=player_embedded (trailer for DVD)
This 16-part series profiles a variety of innovators from the Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus to Peter Eigen, the founder of anti-corruption organization transparency international. This series is especially valuable for educators who wish to inspire their high school and undergraduate students with real stories of people changing the world.
3. Hybrid and For-profit Business Models
http://skollworldforum.org/session/hybrid-and-for-profit-business-models (To see this video, click the link to go to the web page and then play the video.)
One of the most challenging issues facing social entrepreneurs and their supporters is that many of them squarely between the nonprofit and for-profit world. This often forces entrepreneurs to try to fit themselves into an organizational structure based on tax codes and whether their investors
expect a return on their investment or want to be able to deduct their donation from their taxes. Hybrid enterprise models are forcing a broader reevaluation of the separation of “social” from “economic value.”
http://skollworldforum.org/session/hybrid-and-for-profit-business-models (To see this video, click the link to go to the web page and then play the video.)
One of the most challenging issues facing social entrepreneurs and their supporters is that many of them squarely between the nonprofit and for-profit world. This often forces entrepreneurs to try to fit themselves into an organizational structure based on tax codes and whether their investors
expect a return on their investment or want to be able to deduct their donation from their taxes. Hybrid enterprise models are forcing a broader reevaluation of the separation of “social” from “economic value.”
4. An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjx6KETmi4&feature=player_embedded (trailer for movie)
Jeff Skoll founded Participant Productions because of his belief in the power of movies to tell compelling stories that could inspire broad audiences to engage in efforts to change the world. While the studio is young, the sensational success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth demonstrates how
social entrepreneurs can use mass media to reshape the cultural discussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjx6KETmi4&feature=player_embedded (trailer for movie)
Jeff Skoll founded Participant Productions because of his belief in the power of movies to tell compelling stories that could inspire broad audiences to engage in efforts to change the world. While the studio is young, the sensational success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth demonstrates how
social entrepreneurs can use mass media to reshape the cultural discussion.
5. Poverty Cure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naRQakFNEM (3 minute inspirational video)
Poverty Cure is an international coalition of organizations and individuals committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty that challenge the status quo and champion the creative potential of the human person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5naRQakFNEM (3 minute inspirational video)
Poverty Cure is an international coalition of organizations and individuals committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty that challenge the status quo and champion the creative potential of the human person.
6. Pennys a Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veaVikY3u98 (trailer for DVD that can be purchased at www.izzit.org)
Thirty years ago, Professor Muhammad Yunus left the classroom where he had been teaching economics, and ventured out into the poor rural villages of his native Bangladesh to try to discover what prevented these hard-working people from escaping poverty. In one village, Professor Yunus found that for a total of just $27, he could make life-changing loans to 40 women. Thus was born the idea of microcredit - giving very small loans to poor people to allow them to start successful businesses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veaVikY3u98 (trailer for DVD that can be purchased at www.izzit.org)
Thirty years ago, Professor Muhammad Yunus left the classroom where he had been teaching economics, and ventured out into the poor rural villages of his native Bangladesh to try to discover what prevented these hard-working people from escaping poverty. In one village, Professor Yunus found that for a total of just $27, he could make life-changing loans to 40 women. Thus was born the idea of microcredit - giving very small loans to poor people to allow them to start successful businesses.
Research Paper
After completing some activities about social entrepreneurship and watching videos, the students were assigned a research paper. The link below has the insturctions for the students.
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PowerPoint on Writing a Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan
This presentation was designed for use with Iraqi college students in a summer program on leadership development. It helped them think of ways to make a diference in their country. They created presentations and created display boards selling their concepts.
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Writing a Children's Book about Social Entrepreneurship
This lesson is adapted from the Read Write Think website. The original author is Junius Wright. The lesson is titled The Children's Book Project for Grades 9-12 and can be found at the following link http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/children-picture-book-project-1022.html
The lesson listed above was modified to fit the needs of high school students writing a children's book about social entrepreneurship. The files listed below include instructions for the teacher, instructions for the students, and activities to help the students write the book.
Here is a brief explanation as to how one teacher completed this activity:
"My students were given the choice to either work in pairs or by themselves to write the children's book. I partnered with the Art II instructor, at my school, to have the books illustrated by her students. After my entrepreneur students wrote the books, I provided the art class a copy of each book. The art teacher assigned each book to a group of 2-3 art students for them to illustrate. The art students met with my entrepreneurship students one time to discuss what they visualized the characters and scenes to look like. The art students drew their illustrations on basic 8 ½ X 11 paper using color pencils, crayons, and/or markers. Once the illustrations were completed, I scanned the drawings in .jpg format and then the students inserted the pictures into their digital book. The books were then printed on high quality paper using a laser printer. The students then bond their books using materials ordered online from Lintor Publishing. I will not print and bind the books myself in the future. It was extremely time consuming. With today's technology, there are online resources for digitally uploading the book and having a company print and bind it. There are also Apps available for students to create an ibook or ebook." --Heather Grosze, Rogers Public Schools, Heritage High School
Files used:
The lesson listed above was modified to fit the needs of high school students writing a children's book about social entrepreneurship. The files listed below include instructions for the teacher, instructions for the students, and activities to help the students write the book.
Here is a brief explanation as to how one teacher completed this activity:
"My students were given the choice to either work in pairs or by themselves to write the children's book. I partnered with the Art II instructor, at my school, to have the books illustrated by her students. After my entrepreneur students wrote the books, I provided the art class a copy of each book. The art teacher assigned each book to a group of 2-3 art students for them to illustrate. The art students met with my entrepreneurship students one time to discuss what they visualized the characters and scenes to look like. The art students drew their illustrations on basic 8 ½ X 11 paper using color pencils, crayons, and/or markers. Once the illustrations were completed, I scanned the drawings in .jpg format and then the students inserted the pictures into their digital book. The books were then printed on high quality paper using a laser printer. The students then bond their books using materials ordered online from Lintor Publishing. I will not print and bind the books myself in the future. It was extremely time consuming. With today's technology, there are online resources for digitally uploading the book and having a company print and bind it. There are also Apps available for students to create an ibook or ebook." --Heather Grosze, Rogers Public Schools, Heritage High School
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childrens_book_review_guide.docx | |
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recommended_list_of_childrens_books_for_review.docx | |
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glossary_of_economic_terms.docx | |
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