Financial Management

Definition of Social Entrepreneurs, Could it be a social visionary business entity? Is not merely pursuing profit businesses? Or conversely, only yayasankah which can move in efforts to deal with social problems?

Similar questions have often sprung up but missed completely. Social entrepreneurs become new creatures that need dilihat.Di between corporations and foundations are social entrepreneurs. Actually, social entrepreneurs (social enterprise) has appeared in the college text books in the 1960s to the 1970s. Only later in the 1980s to the 1990s social entrepreneurship to spread and grow. In the UK, one of the driving time was Bill Drayton, who founded Ashoka social entrepreneurs named.

social entrepreneurship as a business entity whose primary purpose is social. The advantage gained from the effort invested back in order to achieve social goals or for social purposes. Social entrepreneurship is more than just motivated by a desire to maximize profits for shareholders or owners, “said Campaign Manager Entrepreneurial Social and Cultural Affairs Office of the Ministry of the Third Sector Tamsyn Roberts.

Definition of Social Entrepreneurs
With a definition like that, in fact in Indonesia there were already social entrepreneurs, like Bina Swadaya. These institutions seek profits through multiple business units, but the profit is reinvested to help small communities and farmers.

There are also several institutions by asking a variety of projects to companies to work on a number of projects that are social, such as education and environmental improvement. These institutions take advantage of the projects underway, but the advantage was to be reinvested for social purposes.

There is also a foundation or non-governmental organizations, which also operates business units. The advantage gained from the effort used for their social activities. They were helped by the existence of these business units because they make does not depend entirely on funding.

But unlike Indonesia, the UK social entrepreneurship institutions that received government recognition. In addition to corporations and foundations, the British Government acknowledged the existence of social entrepreneurship. In fact, recognition is embodied in the form of existence of the Ministry of the Third Sector in which the care of social entrepreneurship. Mention of third sector to demonstrate the existence of institutions that are in between the government and the private sector.

Recognition was also manifested in the form of flushing the contested funds a variety of social entrepreneurship through various projects proposed by the institutions of social entrepreneurship. Although funds are not just purely from the government, the government has the right to check the beneficiary’s benefits. This is to ensure the funds are not misused by the recipient.

Social entrepreneur who gets funds and who is certainly doing a project must benefit the community, such as job creation, reducing the number of residents who have no home, and environmental improvement. The government will then audit the funds were disbursed. Government benefit checks received by the community that became the subject of the projects.

“Our main funding comes from the Millennium Awards Trust, an inheritance worth 100 million pounds from the Millennium Commission,” said Director of Development Unltd Zulfiqar Ahmed, an institution of social entrepreneurs who work on various projects of the fund.

Recognition of the existence of social entrepreneurship by the British government carried out by the fact that institutions are able to meet the needs of the community by answering the challenges of social and environmental problems. Social entrepreneurship is also believed to encourage the things that are ethical in business, improving public services, and in fact social entrepreneurs-entrepreneurs creating new entrepreneurs to solve community problems.