Social Enterprise

Sarinee Achavanuntakul

http://www.fringer.org/

Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition, 29 May 2010

Social & environmental problems

Social & environmental problems (cont)

Who will you trust?

• Government?

– Often the most inefficient institution

– Fraught with corruption

• UN & global aid agencies?

– “Far removed” from the problem

– Dead weight loss : “the cartel” of aid business

• Business?

– “No money in it”

• NGO?

– Often ineffective

– Relies on constant supply of aid/donations

“The cartel” of world aid

Who will you trust to fix the problems?

High-tech solutions?

Social enterpreneur as “change agent”

“Social Enterprise” : mission-based enterprise

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A “social enterprise” is a financially sustainable enterprise whose goal is not

to maximize financial profit, but to generate social or environmental returns.

Social enterprises strive for “blended value”

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Examples of social enterprises abroad

Examples of social enterprises in Thailand

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“Minimize poverty”magazine

IT for society

Fair trade for Thai craftsmen

Documentary for society

Innovating organic agriculture

Publisher of “books for the soul”

Preserving Thai heritage

Buddhism-based education

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“Open so

urce

” know

ledge

Institutional support / „change enablers‟

What is NOT social enterprise

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CSR

Philanthropy

Fake CSR

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“You never change things by fighting the

existing reality.

To change something, build a new model

that makes the existing model obsolete.”

--R. Buckminster Fuller