1. Transforming lives and communities
through social entrepreneurship
Keston Perry
Founder, KUMBA Consulting Group/ New Maroons Media
JCI Seminar Series
Thursday September 12, 2013

2. Kelvin ‘DJ Focus’ Doe in Sierra Leone
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3. Creativity
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4. Entrepreneurship defined
• 3 dimensions of entrepreneurship
• Create value (generate profit or social benefit)
• Implement an original idea or incrementally significant
idea
• Coordination of resources (social, financial and human)
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5. Entrepreneurship / Innovation nexus
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6. Qualities of a social entrepreneur
• Ambitious: tackle major social issues; social vision ;
– Organisational forms: Innovative nonprofits, Social-purpose ventures, hybrid
organizations that mix elements of non-profit and for-profit organizations.
• Mission driven: Generating social value —not wealth—is the central criterion of a successful
social entrepreneur.
– promoting systemic social change.
• Strategic: opportunities to improve systems, create solutions and invent new approaches
that create social value.
• Resourceful: limited access to capital and traditional market support systems.
• Results oriented: produce measurable returns. These results transform existing realities,
open up new pathways for the marginalized and disadvantaged, and unlock society’s
potential to effect social change.
(Martin & Osberg, 2007)
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7. Challenges
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8. Challenges
• Learning and Physical
Disability
• Crime / Juvenile Delinquency
• Poverty / vagrancy
• Illiteracy
• Cultural disengagement
• Digital Divide
• Lifestyle diseases
• Governance / People
participation
• Unemployment
• Family dysfunction
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9. Social Enterprise Cases
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10. Financing
• Social Entrepreneurship Program
– MIF/IADB
• Ministry of Labour, Small and
micro-enterprise Development
• Ministry of Community
Development
• Corporate Social Responsibility
initiative – e.g. Repsol
• International Support – Canadian
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11. Community
Involvement
• Support system / network
• Community-driven and
owned
• Listening, learning and
action
Strategic and long-term
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12. Sustainability
• The ability to endure into the
future through effectively
catalysing networks,
resources and creating long
term positively impact on the
community.
• Funding model – trading or
selling a product; donations;
contracting services
• Reinvestment© 2013 KUMBA Consulting Group. All
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13. Thank You
kumba.consulting@gmail.com
www.thenewmaroons.com
@kestontnt
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