SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

A Social Entrepreneur is a person who takes risks for the betterment of society, but does so in a business-like way. It is a label, and all labels have limitations. For me, it is a good way of describing my work as an ethical businessman. However, what I find is that businesses do not seem to take social entrepreneurs seriously and treat them differently from those who are purely profit-oriented. And charities do not seem to have money (sometimes none at all) to pay a reasonable market wage to social entrepreneurs for the skills they possess. So it is hard to straddle the two worlds - either one is a pure profit-oriented businessmen or one is a pure social reformer. This seems unjust and unfair, but in my experience, is very real.