How social entrepreneurship will change the world | Erica Wenger | TEDxUSC

Profit and purpose are not mutually exclusive elements of business. The field of social entrepreneurship offers meaningful opportunities that exist at the intersection of the public and private sectors. Erica discusses her experiences in and out of the classroom developing self-sustaining business models that combat social inequities in hopes of inspiring more people to take action.

[healtheworld]

I am an 18 year old last-year high school student in Mississauga, Canada 🇨🇦. Next year, I plan on going to the University of Waterloo for International Development, which involves social entrepreneurship, which is why this video is very dear to me. Thank you to all those who worked together to put this video together.

[Kvannoy]

It’s awesome to see college students with a passion and heart to serve - leveraging their business skills to go immediately from theorizing to iterating on their ideas. Brilliantly done and very well spoken!

[charlesntumwa]

Watching these VIDEOS, I have come to the conclusion that this is the place where I belong . My numerous attempts to establish a business the normal way has utterly failed. And these failures, although they were too painful to appreciate, and too expensive to deal with; I now realize that this was, and still is my ROAD MAP to Social Entrepreneurship. I have always been driven by having too many business ideas into my head, but not knowing the right route out there, has been the biggest problem for me, as I have found out for myself to be the case. Travelling on this journey to find my destination (SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP) I NOW DO NOT REGRET any of the problems I suffered, and such an experience will make me a better Entrepreneur, than without IT - HALLELUIAH !!!

[daniwenger]

such an incredible talk! excited to learn more about the growing practice of social entrepreneurship!!

[shermac]

I think this is a lovely young woman and unlike any USC graduate I’ve met. I do think she needs to rethink the role of capitalism is solving poverty, it’s done the opposite and greed has fueled this crisis. Bernie Sanders educated the masses on how to lift poverty and it’s just a tiny wealth tax on people who would not notice it.

[njoidmu]

Sorry I’m just not interested in making money off the poor.

[bradhouston]

Sorry, I’m not normally a critic, but when people selected a Genie to find them a Mentor, was it not possible that they just didn’t want to directly say...I want a mentor?

I hope that I’m wrong, because if I was anxiously looking for a Human mentor, and I got an Alexa bot...I would be despondent and distraught.

I love the rest and at lest the goal of helping. But just want people to think twice about certain assumptions 😃

[newdawnrising]

Sorry I’m just not interested in making money off the poor.