This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts, practices, opportunities, and challenges of social entrepreneurship. It provides students with framework and tools to evaluate plan and execute a social enterprise. Students are afforded the opportunity to practice business skills by developing business plans for a socially responsive, income-earning venture for either for profit or non-profit organization. Skills developed in this course include recognizing opportunities, mobilizing resources, managing risks, creating viable economic models, business planning and building effective organizations. Topics include among others, the challenges and opportunities in creating high impact social enterprises; strategies for sustaining and expanding a social enterprise; models for measuring and increasing the social impact of a venture.
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