Social Entrepreneurship In Action Certificate

Social entrepreneurship is a rapidly developing and evolving field in which nonprofit and business leaders design, grow and lead mission-driven enterprises.

To meet demand, we are offering a completely online social entrepreneurship certificate featuring a global perspective with input from organizations and speakers from San Diego, around the U.S. and internationally.

This certificate considers the full spectrum of social business models, including nonprofit organizations, enterprises developing revenue-generating products or services for a social goal, and socially responsible for-profit companies.

Participants will have an opportunity to dive deeper into the tools and models that drive successful social enterprises and, finally, to explore and test how these might apply to their organizations and careers.

This program will expose participants to: theories of entrepreneurship, models of social change, management skills and the leadership required for successful socially entrepreneurial organizations.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define social entrepreneurship and distinguish its elements from across a continuum of organizational structures from traditional nonprofits to social enterprises to traditional for-profits
• Describe the key concepts, frameworks, theories and models of social entrepreneurship
• Describe the key management skills and leadership concepts needed to develop a sustainable and scalable social enterprise
• Identify problems/opportunities in the context of a system and gain skills and knowledge to define and design solutions that drive measurable social impact
• Analyze and evaluate microfinance, a systems-changing example of social entrepreneurship
• Compare the most appropriate funding options for social change ventures within particular contexts
• Apply the various tools typically used in creating and operationalizing a new social enterprise
• Gain awareness of your purpose–your personal passions, motivations, and aspirations as a changemaker