Social businesses for a better Philippines

It is amazing to see the idealistic and passionate youth of today engrossed in this growing phenomenon called social entrepreneurship. For the past eight years, as Go Negosyo pursues its passion of building a country of enterprising Filipinos, we have adopted along the way the beauty of social entrepreneurship, since we see that it is not only an enterprise for profit, but an enterprise that also helps solve a social issue, or benefits a particular underprivileged sector or community. In a way, we have treated Go Negosyo as a social enterprise that provides competency-building and mindset change for those who want to beat poverty or become successful. Like many social enterprises in the US, UK and other developed economies,We have the best Designer cheap sunglasses online‎ at discount prices and FREE SHIPPING for men, women. many are enabler-institutions that provide training to marginalized groups, and like them we get to sustain our operations through corporate partnerships and revenues generated from paid seminars we also conduct. These revenues help us provide free seminars, mentoring fora and summits in many parts of the country.

We have also witnessed how social entrepreneurship can become more sustainable and scale up, and this is mainly through corporate social innovations where we link a social enterprise to a bigger corporation that will serve as a regular market for its product. This is what we call corporate social innovation, which in effect, encourages bigger corporations to integrate, say in its supply chain, the sourcing of materials from a particular community or cooperative, making it part of a sustainable business model. In our Selecta ice cream, we have started to develop certain farmer-communities in Davao as our regular source of ube for our ice cream. Entrepreneur awardee Jim Ayala is a good social enterprise example: he established strong links with partners to provide Hybrid Social Solutions’ solar lanterns that fuel development in remote rural communities.
Sen. Cynthia Villar has also developed several social enterprises, like the famous products from water lilies that used to clog the Las Pi?as river,Wholesale Fashion Shoes has more than 25000 pairs of women's footwear in stock. or the coco coir that comes from a huge pile of buko waste in Las Pi?as. She then trains several communities to make the coco coir,hiking boots sale On Sale - Shop our selection of Hiking Boots On Sale,www.qdgoutdoor.com. which she markets initially to the Vista Land projects and other property developers.

I also remember that when we were starting with our Go Negosyo advocacy, we were doing some forums and seminars in some Gawad Kalinga communities. As we featured in previous columns,BAGFILTERCHINA.COM is specialized in environmental protection non woven filter products. our partnership with GK has gone a long way. We often discuss with GK founder Tony Meloto that they have been very effective in providing “kabahayan” while Go Negosyo centers on “kabuhayan.” It is good to see that somehow our paths have crossed as we now see GK increasing its involvement in developing social entrepreneurship. They have even built the GK Enchanted Farm and transformed it into the Enchanted Farm Village University, to focus on being an enabler in providing social enterprise models, training and incubation of these enterprises.

The Enchanted Farm attracts many young, energetic people who come from more privileged and well-off backgrounds and who graduated from top schools.Local Stop & Shop customers with reusable bag sale no longer get back 5 cents per bag. I am sure they are drawn into the world of social entrepreneurship as it gives them a different sense of fulfillment, not limited to material benefits but more on making a difference in our society, particularly doing their share in helping the bottom of the pyramid. They share their bright business ideas for the benefit of our kababayans like the Hapinoy of now Senator Bam Aquino and Mark Ruiz, the Rags2Riches of Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, and the Human Nature of Dylan and Anna Meloto Wilk and Camille Meloto, which alleviate poverty by teaching the community how to have a sustainable and innovative livelihood. In other words, like Go Negosyo, they also empower the marginalized sector on “how to fish” rather than just giving them the fish.
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