The Social Entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurship, which involves starting an organization with the resolve of achieving positive social change, has been on the rise in recent decades

Thus, entrepreneurs are instrumental in the creation of new enterprises, the growth of the economy, the promotion of learning, and innovation in the world

creation of organizations attempting to impact positive social change. Professor J. Gregory Dees (1988) contended that social entrepreneurs develop organizations along a continuum of enterprises ranging from purely philanthropic to purely commercial (see Table One).