the biz of social change

8/8/2019 The Biz of Social Change

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The Business of Social Change

Rogelio Morales

Project Quality AdvisorAgriTeam Canada


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AgriTeam

AgriTeam Canada Consulting

Provides management and technical expertise

to developing and transitional countrypartners on projects

Promote sustainable growth

Meaningful opportunities for people to improve

lives


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AgriTeam, Part 2

Prioritize local ownership and capacity

development

Partner with IDA like CIDA, ADB, WB, UN Projects: 170 worldwide

Expertise: Capacity Development, CSR, M&E,

Project & Investment Feasibility Studies,Proj Planning & Design, RBM

Sectors: Agri, Comm Devt, Health, Environ


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My Work At AgriTeam

Project Quality Advisor

Electronic Governance for Efficiency &

Effectiveness Local Partner: CICT

Specifics: Piloting the EGF Procedures


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Rogelio Morales

Project Quality AdvisorAgriTeam Canada


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Agenda

Opportunity as an Entrep Characteristic

Finding Opportunity

Opportunities in Social Change Q&A


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What Entreps Do?

Habitually create and innovate to

build something of recognized

value around market opportunities.


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Taken Apart

Habitually create and innovate tobuild something ofrecognized

value around market opportunities.Innovate able to overcome obstacles

that would stop most people, turn problemsand risks into opportunities, deliver, and see

ideas through to final applicationBuild something the output of the

innovation process


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Wheres the Opportunity?

Changes in the environment;seeing the patterns of change.

Not resource driven. Not Withthese resources, what can Iachieve? but Given what I want

to achieve, what resources do Ineed to acquire?


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The Product and The Market Intersects

A product that fulfills (or creates) aneed at just the right time, in the

right place Ease the Pain. If the product is not

practical, functional, grounded on

reality then it has very littlechance. Nobody buys uselessproducts.


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Wheres the next big thing?

So where is the next million-dollar idea hiding,just waiting to be discovered?

A great idea alone doesn't guarantee success

you also need to be able to recognize when aconcept has the potential to becomesomething tangible and hit it big


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How to Recognize Opportunity

Is my idea realistic? Is it technically andfinancially feasible?

Is there a strong need for my potential

product? Is this a need I passionately want to address?

Does pursuing this opportunity meet my goalsas an entrepreneur?


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When Idea=Opportunity

When it is attractive, durable and timely and isanchored in a product or service that createsor adds value for its end buyer or user.

The most successful entrepreneurs areopportunity-focused; that is, they start withwhat customers and the marketplace wantand do not lose sight of this.


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Venture/Enterprise Realities

Success is highly situational.

Starting a company is a lot harder than itlooks, or you think it will be.

Most new ventures are works in process. Crucial: speed, adroitness of reflex, and

adaptability

Key to success is failing quickly and recoupingquickly.

Best entrepreneurs specialize in making "newmistakes" only.

Quotes from "New Venture Creation," 2004, by Timmons and Spinelli


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Dont Ignore Customer Needs

Apples Netwon vs. Palm Pilot


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What is the Aim of the Enterprise?

Do you just want to make money or also

change society?


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One area of Opportunity is in SocialEntrep

There are more and moreentrepreneurs that set up venturesthat make money and improve

society at the same time. Many now aim to make money and

support a cause.


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The Social Entrepreneurs

Are like the traditional entrep but they are

into it to influence Social Change

Find innovative ways to create betteroutcomes for society

Social enterprise a business that makes

money but initiates social change.


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The Developing World

20% of the worlds population lack clean water

40% lack adequate sanitation

20% lack adequate housing

70% unable to read

20% earn less than $1 a day

20% underfed and 20% overfed


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The Developing World

20% suffer from malnutrition (35% under age

5)

35,000 people die every day from hunger-related causes

250,000 children die each week of

malnutrition and preventable diseases

40% of population at risk of malaria

Deaths from AIDS increased more than 6x

over the 1990s.


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Reality:

There is a great

divide between

the haves andthe have-nots


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Some Social Issues Prevailing in the

Phils

Graft & Corruption

Poverty

Literacy

Disabled Access to Justice, Health (DTTB)

Abuse vs. Women and Children

Families in Conflict areas Calamities


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Social Entrep Profile


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Muhammad Yunus Professor of economics in his native

Bangladesh

30+ years ago, driven to find a way to convince

banks to give loans to the poorest people inhis country.

The poor have no collateral, he was told.Loaning them money is folly.

Yunus decided to start a bank for the poor,Grameen Bank the first micro-lendinginstitution

The first loan was for about 30 US dollars, to

women in particular.


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Muhammad Yunus

Today, microcredit is mainstreamed even into

the most conservative institutions.

Yunus changed forever the myth that beingpoor was synonymous with being a high-risk

investment.

Over the years repayment rate has been

between 95-98%.


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The triple Bottom line

Financial, economic, environmental/social

issues

Green businesses, CSR


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Other Items

Bill & Melinda Gates , Warren Buffett

Manny Villar

Rajo Laurel

Binalot Pinoy Fast Food University/Centers for Learning

Fair Buying, wellness products

Illac Diaz Winding Radio/Water wheel pump

Oxfam, World Vision, etc


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Your Questions Answered

Can an social enterprise be profitable?


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Thank You!

Reference:

www.agriteam.ca

www.ashoka.com

Wikipedia (on Social Entrepreneurship, Capacity

Development)

www.dswd.gov.ph

www.ebbf.org/social_entrepreneurship

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