There is, however, a culture of entrepreneurs who not only seek to become self-sufficient in the business ventures, but they also seek to be agents of societal change.
The Schwab Foundation awards 30 international entrepreneurs with a Social Capitalist Award for not only succeeding in their profession, but also providing a sense of positive societal change.
The 2006 American Social Entrepreneur of the year winner was Kyle Zimmer and a company called First Book. This company has a desire to see low income children have every opportunity to read and own books of their own.
Statistics indicate:
61% of low-income families have no age-appropriate books in the home.
80 percent of preschool and after-school programs that serve this group have no books at all for these children.
There are 181,500 such programs in US cities with populations exceeding 50,000 alone.
The children's book market is a $27 billion industry with over 460 million books sold annually.
In 2002, just 34.5 % of US households purchased at least one children's book.
The entrepreneurs at First Book have worked to provide new children's books for less than $2.00 per copy to programs dealing with low-income children.
Because First Book is able to sell in mass quantities to grateful literacy programs they have a significant budget that allows them to provide books to severely disadvantaged children at no cost.
Reports indicate First Book has given away more than 43 million books since it's inception in 1992.
First Book has shown it is possible to develop a business that allows you to do what you love and be paid to do so. They have also shown that they can take the passion of an entrepreneur and combine it with a desire to affect future generations in a positive way.
Finding the right business is discovering an underserved market and developing a solution to needs that haven't been addressed elsewhere.
There are thousands of global social entrepreneurs who are giving back to their local, national and global communities.
In an era of governmental cutbacks and reduced budgets many of these social entrepreneurs are finding great satisfaction in contributing in a meaningful way to the things they are most interested in. The prospects are limitless and often provide a greater sense of satisfaction to those who include 'others' as part of their business plan.
Entrepreneurs Can Change The World
The mental exercise of creating products, sales systems, and traffic systems is very useful to the sanity of a person. It actually makes you more sane and happy to create and share with others. You get to be the boss, the king, the big cheese in your own little universe.
I am happier when I am creating or learning something useful and of course making extra money is a very big plus. A home business can bring in enough to make a utility bill payment or as much as down payment on a new home. How much you make is up to you.
In the U.S. a home business is just about the safest and the best tax write off you could create. Get a copy of Turbo Tax with the business version and you will find lots of things are a recommended deduction. Imagine that, a home business blog is a money maker even when it is not profitable...now that is one heck of a deal. By the way I started mine as a tax write off and decided to turn it into a retirement vehicle.
Can you imagine the impact it would have on America if everyone was making an extra $10,000 to $100,000 per year on the side? Just the fact that we would raise our ability to use words and sentences to communicate with each other would have a greater effect on society than the money. But, the money would be good.
Young adults could find a valuable part time activity that is safe, fun, profitable, & contributes to the society. Not to mention the extra money would help take the strain off of mom & pop.
Wow! Now, for a quick summary of a part time home business blog:
1) Make you more money.
2) Make you happier, smarter, & more fulfilled.
3) Cut your taxes.
4) Improve your literacy.
5) Help our children & reduce delinquency.
6) And if enough of them were created.....Change the World!
I challenge you to start your own blog right away! Pick a subject! Make a product! Change the world! It could happen.
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