Public Welfare Entrepreneurship Education: How To Do Abroad

Yunus believes that economists can understand the strong social and economic energy of loans, and they may also realize that loans should really be promoted as a kind of human power.

The introduction of social entrepreneurship into the field of economics has endowed economics with more human elements.

Professor Yunus, an American instructor, also introduced a refreshing and distinct dimension of Sociology in his teaching.

Yunus believed: "without human nature, economics is as dry and hard as stone."

Economics must also have a deep humanistic concern. It should focus on the poor and disadvantaged groups who have no status in traditional economics textbooks.

In the universities abroad, there were no public welfare entrepreneurship courses. Most of the students learned social entrepreneurship or management through student associations.

But in recent years, foreign universities have begun to try to introduce public welfare entrepreneurship as an effective social change process to the undergraduate and graduate students of social services.

In fact, public welfare entrepreneurship has been developing in Europe and the United States for nearly 20 years, and in China, it has only just begun to understand this concept.

The core connotation of this concept mainly includes two aspects: first, the non-profit organization adopts the creative business operation mode to enhance its social value; the two is that the enterprise enhances its value by creatively meeting the needs of the society.

In short, the so-called social entrepreneurship is the process of creative integration of social value and economic value in the course of operation by social organizations (enterprises, non-profit organizations, etc.).

At this forum, Stephen Anderson, director of the Ph. D. program at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, believes that many non-profit organizations have no commercial experience.

"While social work majors are thinking about how best to bring about social change, social entrepreneurship is an excellent model."

Compared with the public entrepreneurship courses taught in business schools, the challenge of social work is not to arouse concern about social values, but to teach entrepreneurial skills to students who are already interested in doing social work.

"Creative planning and financing strategy is very important for the establishment of non-profit organizations (which provide a large number of social services), and the mode of social entrepreneurship helps a lot in these areas," he said.

Stephen Anderson said.

At present, only the Guanghua charity foundation of Beijing is committed to the training of public entrepreneurship. It promotes the management performance of non-governmental organizations through the promotion of Drucker's strategic management training of non-governmental organizations, and encourages young people and college students to start entrepreneurial activities.

Vivienne Tan, Dean of Philippines Asian entrepreneurship college, believes that social enterprises are both profitable and create value for society.

Philippines is still a developing country with many slums. Social enterprises are an effective way to fight poverty.

The Institute of Asian entrepreneurship, founded by her, is committed to supporting entrepreneurs who start businesses through microfinance. They are often the poor in the cities. Poor entrepreneurs can get government funds, but how to make good use of the funds is a problem. The college provides lectures and training for them.

Stephen Anderson said that in the past few years, public entrepreneurship has developed rapidly, but most of them are confined to business schools. The purpose of business schools is to encourage students who are trained to join in the business sector, so that they can devote part of their energy into public welfare undertakings.

Comparatively speaking, the content of social entrepreneurship education in social work courses has just appeared.

Yunus is also trying to create a new concept of entrepreneurship.

In his ideal mode, all people, including those who are very poor, have the potential to become entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs should also have social conscience, which he calls "social activist".

Social activists may also make huge profits (even more profitable than those who simply aim at maximizing profits), but that is his secondary goal. He is first motivated by a set of social goals.

Yunus firmly believes that by creating space for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, a new world can be created.