FOUNDATION for UNITED NONPROFIT DISTRIBUTION of AMERICA Empowerment and Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship in AMERICA... 501c3 Donor Advised Fund / Public Charity ..Our mission is to empower the sector of social entrepreneurs who are powerless over their position in our society, giving them a "hand up, not a hand-out". We strive to connect the social entrepreneur with their needed business and consultation resources.
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Firstly; to seek out and empower Social Entrepreneurs throughout America while providing them with the resources necessary to promote their practical approaches to their missions, which create positive changes for the benefit of society in general.
Secondly; to continually assist the nonprofit community by implementing an innovative method of “passive” self-sufficiency creating a level of sustainability which allows the non-profit to focus primarily on their missions of purpose and not their financial resources.
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n., 1. society's change agent: pioneer of innovations that benefit humanity.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS:
* about applying practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are marginalized and poor.
* a term that captures a unique approach to economic and social problems, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines.
* grounded in certain values and processes that are common to each social entrepreneur, independent of whether his/ her area of focus has been education, health, welfare reform, human rights, workers' rights, environment, economic development, agriculture, etc., or whether the organizations they set up are non-profit or for-profit entities.
It is this approach that sets the social entrepreneur apart from the rest of the crowd of well-meaning people and organizations who dedicate their lives to social improvement.
WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR?
* A pragmatic visionary who achieves large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these.
* Combines the characteristics represented by Richard Branson and Mother Teresa.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS SHARE SOME COMMON TRAITS INCLUDING:
* an unwavering belief in the innate capacity of all people to contribute meaningfully to economic and social development
* a driving passion to make that happen.
* a practical but innovative stance to a social problem, often using market principles and forces, coupled with dogged determination, that allows them to break away from constraints imposed by ideology or field of discipline, and pushes them to take risks that others wouldn't dare.
* a zeal to measure and monitor their impact. Entrepreneurs have high standards, particularly in relation to their own organization’s efforts and in response to the communities with which they engage. Data, both quantitative and qualitative, are their key tools, guiding continuous feedback and improvement.
* a healthy impatience. Social entrepreneurs don’t do well in bureaucracies. They cannot sit back and wait for change to happen – they are the change drivers.
