How to Start a Social Enterprise - Greg Overholt at TEDxYouth@Toronto

Greg Overholt is confident that Social Enterprises can tackle many of the challenges today's world by leveraging commercial principles to maximize social impacts. In his talk, he presented 6 tangible steps on how to start and grow your social enterprise by sharing his story of starting his organization.

Greg Overholt is the founder and executive director of the national student-led social venture Students Offering Support. SOS is a student organization based in 30 universities across North America where volunteer leaders hold group review session before exams, raising money for development projects in rural Latin America, built by volunteers on two week outreach trips. Since its inception in 2004, 3000 SOS volunteers have helped 25,000 students prepare for exams, raising $1,400,000 for education based development projects.

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[harryxiong_]

Nice Greg, I am proud of you talking about me in your speech!

[poojamankhedkar]

This is too awesome! Now, I'm so inspired to start my own social enterprise. 👍👌

[MuhammadKenYT]

This is really inspiring.. I might start my own social enterprise here in Sabah, Malaysia..

[troymccann]

Great work Greg!  Glad to see you've been able to expand the impact of SOS and to share your vision more broadly.  Loved the shout out to Stew!  Keep it up!

[christiebcoop]

I innovated a cutting edge community center franchise. I want to get out of the idea stage without scaring myself!

[NicolaGrace]

I'm working social entrepreneurs to help them tackle world problems and the Global Sustainable Goals through their profitable social enterprises. So your concept of leveraging commercial principles to maximize social impacts is right on the money.

[borothleakshmichea]

Thank you so much you show me how to do my work in technovation Cambodia

[swoponbd]

Thanks. I have a social business ideas

[markorollo.]

an organisation that leveridges commercial principles etc etc

the only problem i have with social enterprise as i do with private sector business, too much 'business speak' why cant we just speak in spade is a spade laymans terms for those of us with some brain cells missing, it would attract more people to social enterprise if we were just more clear and simple.

Having said that, as one of those with a brain cell or two gone AWOL, im really into social enterprise and really want to immerse myself in it as much as possible.

[LieV]

So many of these social enterprise videos just talk a whole lot of nothing. A lot of I's and personal stories. Need the way to employ unskilled people and produce income.

[borothleakshmichea]

And I’m not really very good in speaking

[coopercooper]

You just suggested to kids that being the ceo of McDonalds was a good idea. You just lost me. Did you get paid for that little plug. Promoting McDonalds to children is fucking horrible.