Upon completion of class you should be able to….
1. Discuss the Role of Outsiders
2. Analyze the Power of Large Foundations or Organizations
3. Compare the Benefits of Dollars vs. Smiles
Concepts and Definitions
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Humanitarian Engineering
- Benevolence
- Triple bottom line
- Economic sustainability
- Foundation
- For Profit
- Non profit
- Empathy
- Sympathy
Pre-class Activities
Required Materials
1. The Day Without Dignity Video
2. A Social Solution, Without Going the Nonprofit Route (Marci Alboher)
3. To profit or not to profit. Is that the question? (Rob Greenland)
4. The protean nature of philanthropy is one of its greatest assets (Michael Edwards)
5. Conscious Capitalism and non-profit organizations (John Mackey)
Supplemental Materials
1. The Blended Value Proposition: Integrating Social and Financial Returns (Jed Emerson)
Case Study
- Can ventures be successful socially if they are structured as for profits? Can you think of any examples of this? What advantages do non profit businesses have?
Bring to Class
- 3 take-aways from each of the required materials
- Print out the Ethical Reflection methodology and fill it out with your initial thoughts on the case study
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