social entrepreneurship: mobilizing, innovating, and collaborating for social change
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Betsy Goulet, Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Student, University of Illinois, Springfield, will discuss the importance of collabora-tion amid the new reality of shrinking budgets where agencies, nonprofits and social service programs are being forced to do more with less. She will share information about the role of social entrepreneurship as an innovative strategy for social change in the development of partnerships among nonprofits, government, universities and corporations.TRANSCRIPT
Social EntrepreneurshipMobilizing, Innovating and Collaborating for Social
Change
Betsy GouletInstructor, Public Administration , University of Illinois Springfield
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ipMission. Mission. Mission.
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Sharing Expertise, Coordinating Programs, and Creating a Unified Agenda” Short et. al (2009)
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Most“I’s”• Individual excellence• Importance• Interdependence• Information• Integration• Integrity
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thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead