The World is Changing and Needs Social Entrepreneurs to "Bring it into Balance"

Social entrepreneurs are change agents that improve society by developing effective and equitable new models often less hierarchical yet more cooperative and complex than existing ones. Researchers and practitioners have defined social entrepreneurship in various ways but a common denominator is a venture that adds value to a community mission through innovative, risk-taking, business-like practices. Social entrepreneurs combine innovation with fulfillment of community needs and their work overlaps with social justice and environmental preservation movements.

To give a bit more clarity, there may be two kinds of social entrepreneurs. "Social innovators" come up with new and more effective ways (systemically, organizationally, etc.) of dealing with and hopefully mitigating social problems. "Social enterprisers" use the tools and forms of business to provide needed goods and services that help the community at large as well as their clients. They also help themselves by generating earned income. "Social enterprises" may be non-profit or for-profit entities (Some prefer the use the alternative nomenclature "for-benefit" organizations.) The World is Changing and Needs Social Entrepreneurs to "Bring it into Balance"

The way I understood the article, social entrepreneurs are the link to a better tomorrow not only for a single person but for the whole world. They are the keys to unlock the trap door that the world is in right now. Same people, same forms of government, same programs that aren’t truly beneficial, same ways and means to tackle a problem with a disguised solution. The rich helping the rich to enrich themselves, the government offers the same viand with a different name and businesses that are backed up by a strong group stays afloat and promises that are truly meant to be broken. The social innovators comprise the youth because they are more open to changes and are risk takers. They can be innovative in making an old fashioned product or service into a new, exciting and more effective one. Coupled with the social innovator is the social enterpriser who is a fast learner and thinker and finds the best solution to a problem in the most resourceful and appropriate way possible.

With the social entrepreneurship being recognized as a rising force and change maker the world with all its flaws if given the chance to be equal in standing would definitely give a balance to everything and everyone.