Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurs have innovative ideas to...

• Increase annual sales

• Promote their business worldwild

• Solve the world's social problems

• Make the business more profitable

How do entrepreneurs help create solutions to solve the world's social problems?

• Through food and clothing donations

• They create products, systems and solutions to help change people's lives.

• They give lectures and courses for the local community

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing

• True

• False

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Muhammed Yunus was responsible for the creation of microfinance industry

• True

• False

One Acre Fund are working to...

• help small and large businesspeople deal with the needy population

• provide good education to low-income areas.

• transform the way small holder farmers can grow and produce their own agricultural products and reduce hunger

• provide seed money for small businesses until they become viable and able to develop by themselves

Social enterprises are always 'not-for-profit'

• True

• False

Social entrepreneurs often have to...

• be risk-takers

• stick to traditional development programs in order to avoid financial losses

• change their approach or their model or their product until they get it right.

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USAID is investing in entrepreneurial ecosystems trying to build up the environment that's going to allow entrepreneurs to...

• Sell and buy their ideas/products

• grow and flourish

• grow and encourage others

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The Global Innovation Fund was created by a group of donors and other actors to...

• pilot, test and scale innovative ideas

• raise funds to help small business owners in difficult financial situations

• help reduce unemployment rate