What is a Community Enterprise | Helen Haugh

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Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities

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Copenhagen Business School

Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities

104 个评分

课程 1（共 3 门，Specialization Social Entrepreneurship）

This Course will clarify the definition and meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and will focus on the need to learn about the source and root of a social problem. You will be introduced to different perspectives about Social Entrepreneurship and you will learn about complementary and opportunistic assets which will help you to detect an opportunity and develop an idea of how to create a business for social change. From a practical perspective you will be asked to initiate a team formation process and start to think about a problem topic that you want to address with your social venture in the future. You will work in a team to research this topic and will gradually start to think about a particular opportunity and identify a purpose for your social venture project.

从本节课中

Who is a Social Entrepreneur

With Module 3 you have reached halftime of Course 1. Congratulations! This Module will answer the question what it takes people to become Entrepreneurs. In addition you will be introduced to the concept of a Community Enterprise. Your personal challenge will be to define your future role within your project team and to think about how to find opportunities to address social problems.

Who is a Social Entrepreneur? | Sudhanshu Rai5:14

What is a Community Enterprise | Helen Haugh4:34

与讲师见面

Kai Hockerts

Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

I would now like to welcome Helen Haugh,

Senior Lecturer at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Helen Haugh has been researching social enterprises in the United Kingdom

for many years, and in particular,

she has been working with community-led social enterprises.

Helen, thanks for being here with us today.

Tell us a little bit about, what is the difference between the kind of

social entrepreneurs we have looked at earlier in the session, the individual,

Ashoka-type of social entrepreneurs and a community-led social enterprise.

>> Community enterprises are particularly distinctive, in that they

are led and managed by the community in which the enterprise is based.

Quite often, when we think about social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship,

it's about an individually motivated organization that is being set up.

But with communities, what one is really doing is trying to engage with different

members of the community, to get them involved and to work with the community,

so that the community identifies what it wants to achieve and

sets up an organization and processes and practices that will enable the community to

be consistently involved in the way that that organization is set up and managed.

And we often find community organizations are really, the,

the strength of them lies in the processes that they have set up in order to

maintain that close engagement between the community and the organization.

We have several very famous community enterprises in the UK.

One, for example, is Coin Street Community Builders.

Now this is an organization, a community enterprise,

that is based on the South Bank of London, and the distinctive feature of this

organization is that they were able to acquire through a loan

a large acreage of land on the South Bank.

Now the South Bank of London is an extremely valuable part of London and

the value of the real estate is very, very high.

And there were many organizations, private organizations,

that wanted to own this land, so that they could then

build property, whether it was commercial or residential,

that they could then sell at very high rates that one finds in major capitals.

But there were enough members of the community that were living in the area and

that had strong ties to that area.

And they were able to raise money to enable them to

acquire the land at a price that they were able to afford.

Now to be begin with, they weren't able to develop all of the land.

And in fact, they generated revenue from creating car parking space for

people who wanted to work in London.

But over time, they had created a network of physical assets which combined

accommodation at, for key workers, at affordable rents.

And the accommodation ranges from one-bedroom flats

through to flats that will accommodate large, extended families.

So there is residential accommodation and that is,

has all been designed with environmentally friendly facilities and services.

But at the same time, there are commercial properties that have been developed,

and it is the rents from the commercial properties that

cross-subsidize the rents that are, the low rents for key workers.

There are also business incubation units at different rates for people

depending on their ability to pay.

And what this has done,

Coin Street Community Builders has enabled a thriving community to actually

continue to live right in the center of one of the world's leading cities.

And it is through their community engagement activities,

through cooperative structures that enable the residents, the members of

the community to determine how the money is spent, how the properties are built,

and what the future for that community enterprise will be.

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