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Engaging Communities in Social Entrepreneurship

MACE 597-X50
Closed
University of Alberta
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Kent Rondeau
Kent Rondeau
Associate Professor
2
Timeline
  • January 9, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 11, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • February 16, 2022
    Project Progress Meeting
  • April 5, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
2/2 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Social Enterprise, Non profit
Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Categories
Market research Operations Product or service launch Social sciences
Skills
business strategy data analysis research business consulting marketing strategy
Learner goals and capabilities

Community social entrepreneurship is the use of the applied techniques of entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement community-based solutions that focus on social, cultural, or environmental issues. Social entrepreneurship in modern society offers an altruistic form of enterprise creation that focuses on the benefits that communities may reap, rather than on financial profits that accrue only to powerful stakeholders. Social entrepreneurship provides a community benefit when it transforms its social capital in a way that affects its social and economic development in a positive manner.

Are you up to date on how best to address the unique opportunities and challenges facing you social venture? A team of students will develop focused recommendations and a tactical plan for your social venture to help you take advantage of an opportunity or overcome a challenge that you are facing.

Learners
Graduate
Any level
6 learners
Project
15 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 3
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables might include:

  1. A 20 minute oral presentation of key findings and recommendations.
  2. A detailed report including their research, analysis, insights, and recommendations.
Project timeline
  • January 9, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 11, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • February 16, 2022
    Project Progress Meeting
  • April 5, 2022
    Experience end
Project Examples

A group of students will work to produce a clearly-structured strategy plan to address a specific challenge or opportunity that your organization is facing. The final deliverable will include supporting research and analysis, recommendations, implementation/action plans, monitors/controls, and a limitations/risk analysis.

Areas of focus for this project might include, but are not limited to:

  • Understanding the social enterprise concept with respect to community engagement and development.
  • Explaining how to design and lead a social enterprise venture.
  • Discussing the role of business, government, philanthropic and voluntary organizations (NGOs) in community engagement and development.
  • Measuring the social value that is derived from a social entrepreneurial venture.
  • Describing how social entrepreneurship contributes to the formation of enduring community social capital.
  • Identifying the steps involved in researching and crafting a social entrepreneurial venture plan.
  • Review the potential and discuss the limits of social entrepreneurialism when engaging communities.
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide relevant information/data as needed for the project.

Provide an opportunity for students to present their work and receive feedback.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone/virtual calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.

Be available for a quick phone/virtual call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.