More learning about social value and entrepreneurship.
1. Identify a social-value organization near your university or community. Research this organization and try to interview one or more leaders of the organization. What is its strategy? How does it create social value for its stakeholders? How does it garner the financial, human, and social capital needed to accomplish its work?
• For the organization you chose, draw a value net of its key stakeholders.
Identify and discuss one simple relationship (a stakeholder who plays only one role) and one complex relationship (a stakeholder who plays two or more roles in the value net).
Describe the challenges that managers of these organizations face as they have more complex interactions with their stakeholders.
2. Identify a social entrepreneur you admire and learn more about this person’s career. Reach out to this person, or his or her organization, to learn more about the person’s goals, missions, strategies, and activities.
If the organization is located near you, spend a weekend volunteering there. What can you learn from this person about how to start your own social venture? How could you become involved with this, or another, organization and make a meaningful contribution as a college students?