Wednesday, April 11, 2012

 

Social Entrepreneur Essay Assignment, Note the multiple components

Cyber-Assignment 1
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment. Complete between April 16-25.

Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html

This assignment will help students better articulate what a social entrepreneur is, although you have met many in the pages of Mighty and Half the Sky.

Assignment: Respond to 3 stories from Thursday, March 22 to Thursday, April 12. Bring in headphones for the computer 3/22. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here (on the blog).

Answer the following questions in your response to the program.

Outline:

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?


2. Social Entrepreneur Essay Worksheet: Assignment: Social Entrepreneurs: Engaged Citizenry

Students need to explore the terms, entrepreneur, engaged citizenry, business, social good to grasp fully what it meant by the term: social entrepreneur. Another related, but different term is philanthropy. An entrepreneur is not necessarily a philanthropist. You need to know the difference and do not choose a philanthropist.

The social entrepreneur for this assignment needs to be female, a woman or girl. The person has to be documented, which means she cannot be new to this field. The person profiled cannot be you (smile) unless you meet all the criteria and present a convincing argument to me first (smile). I used to say the person couldn't be related to you, but that's okay as long as the other criteria is met.

The entrepreneur needs to live in Northern California and be alive.

Introduction
Open with the problem statement. Be descriptive.

The thesis sentence names your social entrepreneur as a person who is addressing the problem identified in the introduction.

Body paragraphs
Background on the social entrepreneur and what brings them to the work. You can cite statistics here to illustrate the problem

Introduce the organization or business venture. Does the work grow out of the community? How do the SE and the community interact?

Are there any partnerships with other organizations and/or government?

Are there any peer reviews or industry reports?

What are the measurable results for the community? Share a story here.

What are the measurable results for the SE. You could quote the SE here.

Your essay needs to answer all of these questions; you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or cause and effect.

The person has to be alive. Try to find someone local, who is living in the San Francisco Bay Area or in California. The person has to have been doing this work for 10-20 years (the length of time is negotiable; see me).

You need to locate 5 sources on your subject to form a bibliography; you don't have to cite them all. The sources can be published or broadcast interviews, books, articles, and films or you can interview them yourself. You can work in groups and share data. In fact, I encourage it.

You will have three citations: 1 in-text citation, one paraphrase, and one block quote in the essay. The rest of the writing has to be your own. The essay should be about 4 pages (English 1A); 2-3 pages English 201. This does not include the works cited page or bibliography.

This paper is your final.


English 201 Social Entrepreneur
Library Planning Sheet (handout) due by Wednesday, May 2 (share)_____________
List of sources (5) minimum in MLA format due May 2 (share in class)___________

Essay: Initial Planning Sheet, Outline, Introduction and Conclusion are due: Monday, May 7 ______

First Draft May 9 (peer review)__________
Final Draft Friday, May 11 by 12 noon ______________

SE Presentations: May 14-16___________. We spoke about having the presentation over an early dinner at a restaurant. If we do this then on May 16 we would review the portfolio process. I will host portfolio assembly workshops during finals week: Monday, May 21, 9-12 in A-232.
The presentation is a quarter of the grade.

Supplementary Assignments

On-line Frontline World (cyber-responses 3) due by April 25_______
Library Research sheet: Wednesday, May 2 _______________
Website Evaluation completed (worksheet) by May 2 (in-class)_____________



Comments:
Keno Mapp II
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:00-3:00
18 April 2012

Mexico the business of saving trees

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?

1. Pati Ruiz Corso

2. The lack of well to protect the environment.

3. Sierra Gorda Biosphere

4. Pati was a city girl that found what she was looking for in the forest as she said in the 2008 interview by frontline world.

5.to make her life’s work saving the forest and creating a new livelihood for the people
6. The people in the Sierra Gorda are paid to plant new tree like Josa Hernandas how gets $360 a year by the government for his land.

7. The community takes ownership of the process with their land as well as there labor, without there would not be a venture.
 
Keno Mapp II
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:00-3:00
19 April 2012

Tibet: eye camp

1. Dr. marc Lieberman

2. Cataracts caused by solar radiation from working in high altitudes near the son.

3. Tibet Vision Project/ Eye camps

4. Dr. Mark seems to be the national spokesperson for cataracts in Tibet having a true passion for helping the less fortunate.

5. He wanted to help “Facilitate the transfer of knowledge two the Tibetan medical community So that they would have the skills and the tools to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2020.” As stated in the Frontline World interview in Sep. 20 2007

6. They Local Component seems somewhat corrupt, With the information of new facilities being used as personal hotels.

7. The community is the process by which the social entrepreneur fulfills his goal, he does not ship in doctors from across the world to do this procedures, he instead teaches the existing doctors how to perform these procedures. By which fulfilling His entrepreneurial goals also enriching the health and knowledge of the community.
 
Keno Mapp II
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:00-3:00
19 April 2012

Vietnam: wheels of change

1. Ralf Hotchkiss

2. The Problem that this social entrepreneur identified Is the lack of reliable, strong and affordable wheelchairs in countries like Vietnam.

3. Whirlwind wheelchairs, INT’L

4. Not only are they providing cheaper and stronger wheelchairs there also providing work because of the cheap construction of these chairs.

5. Ralf decided to address this issue because of two reasons, one because he is in a wheelchair himself and found that the chairs that were available to him we’re not up to par. And to one day change the way wheelchair design is thought of and pictured altogether.

6. The local component of this venture is the community members involved in building and donating these wheelchairs to customers and patience.

7. The community helps in this process by building these chairs and also setting up organizations So the proper people receive these chairs.
 
Myungshin Kim
Professor Sabir
English 201B
20 April 2012

Mexico the business of saving trees



1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

Her name is Pati Ruiz Corzo.

2. What problem did the person profiled identify?

When she arrived at the place, townspeople there were dumping trashes into the water. Then she changed the way of treating garbage and revitalized the area. Now she says that insufficient and irregular job opportunities make young people to leave the village.

3. What is the name of the organization they started?

Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve

4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

She transformed the place to a thriving inhabitant, and she is helping the community by making job opportunities for the people there, but they are not enough.

5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?

The reason she addressed this issue was that she wanted to introduce a way of using a desolated habitat to help a poor community.

6. What is local component?

The towns people working on improving and keep their clean environment and uses forests for a carbon trading exchange.

7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to success of the venture or business?

Even though there is a potential of becoming prosperous of money making by the process, the many men in the community go to the United States to get a job. The process needs to be more developed to give a constant income for the town’s people.
 
patrice burns
professor sabir
English 201B
April 23,2012
Mexican Business of saving trees

1.social entrepreneur profiled is patie ruiz carso
2.the problem profiled is trading carbon to help eliminate greenhouse gases
3.skoll foundation
4.the relationship with the community was good, and thry were open to what she was trying to accomplish
5. she addressed this situation because when she went to visit the place was full of litter and trash, and strippe of much of its natural vegetation. and she wanted to restore the forest and create new jobs for people living in the biosphere.
6.local componet was using carbon trading to revitalize the region
7. the communitie own the process by being involved
 
patrice burns
english 201B
professor sabirs
23 April 2012

Ecuador:County Doctors
1.Entrepreneur profiled is Doctor Edgar Rodas
2.The problem Edgar M.D profiled was health care
3.Cinterandes foundation is the organization he started
4.The relationship that he had with the community he served was that he was from ecuador and he wanted to help his own country to better provide health care.
5.he wanted to address the issue because he was frustrated by ecuadors lack of health resources for the poor.
6.the local cmponent is health care
7.the community feels essential due to the fact that they are recieving free health care
 
Alfonso Juarez
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:00-2:50
April 24 2012

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

Soraya Salti

2.What problem did the person profiled identify?

Unemployment in the youth

3.What is the name of the organization they started?

Injaz

4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

they help graduate students achieve business skills needed to be in a real world business market.

5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?

Soraya Salti understands the unemployment issue with the youth in Egypt, and student graduates, who have nothing to show for it. So she pushes them towards the Injaz program to help them enter the world of business as young entrepreneurs.

6.What is the local component?

The students coming together and working hard to achieve their goal to win first place in the competition of Injaz.

7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?

Business leaders from top companies around Egypt came to judge the competition and see who’s company was the best and the most realistic and would be successful in a real world market.
 
Alfonso Juarez
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:00-2:50
24 April 2012

Guatemala: The Secret Files

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

Jim Fruchterman

2.What problem did the person profiled identify?

The deaths and disappearances of Loved ones and the 80 million pages that could reveal what really happened to them.

3.What is the name of the organization they started?

Benetech

4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

To help people find answers to what happened to their family members disappearances.

5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?

Because for so long the Guatemalan government has covered up the deaths and disappearances of the indigenous and people who were involved in the gorilla movement.

6.What is the local component?

The local component is to help people find answers and with the help of Benetech, a U.S non-profit company, to uncover the 80 million pages of the national police force.
7.How does the community own the process, that is,feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The people, especially the young generation, are being apart of those who are working around the clock to uncover the archive. They aren’t doing it for a salary or just to past time, they’re simply doing it for the future of Guatemala.
 
Patrice burns
professor sabirs
english 201B
24 april 2012
india a new life getting kids off the street
1.father koshys
2.increasing homelessness in children
3.new life childrens home
4.he use to live and work in india
5.he was disturb by seeing a large number of children and adults on the streets so he wanted to help them
6.the enormous social divide between poor and the prosperous
7.the community works well with him and he creates jobs for former street kids to reach out to other street kids to come to the shelter.
 
Rohan Maharjan
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
18 April 2012

Nepal- A Girls life Room to Read

1. John Wood

2. John visted Nepal for his vacation treking in 1998 and there he discoverd that nepal is not only a spectactular beauty but also a crushing poverty. When he went to library he saw the rundown library was virtually empty.

3. The organization he started was called Room to read where he brought books from other places by fundrasing and it is a place for everybody to get education.

4.His relationship with the community was really good n they loved him so much they decided to go with him by building more schools n more books with libraries for everybody.

5. The person decide to address this issue because he was concerned about the fact these girls and boys are not able to get the education they wanted because of poverty. He was suprised how desperate these kids weanted to read the books. He was saying in america everybody take education as granted but here its life for them.

6. The local component is he wants each and every individual to have a better future in entire life.

7. The community feels happy about the fact that somebody is taking care of them and because of that other countries is doing same things as them. There are so many schools right now. The organization has been all over the world.
 
Myungshin Kim
Wanda Sabir
Eng 201B
25 April 2012

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Purnima McCutcheon

2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
She found that the community had lost hope and was suffering after the tsunami .
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity.

4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They raise funds from out and help the community with the money; they reform the community

5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
The person decided to address this issue because she wanted to share her nice feelings of helping the community.

6.What is the local component?
The local people are involved in the construction and they build their own places and get paid by doing it.

7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
They are proud of what they are doing for their community, and they love her, Purnima McCutcheon with the respect.
 
Myungshin Kim
Wanda Sabir
Eng201B
25 April 2012

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

Soraya Salti

2.What problem did the person profiled identify?

A lot of young people were unemployed in the stagnant economy.

3.What is the name of the organization they started?

Injaz

4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

They give an opportunity to young graduating people to compete each other with their ideas by them to running entrepreneurs.

5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?

Because Salti thought that young people were wasting their talents after they graduated from schools.

6.What is the local component?

Yoing entrepreneur team develop their ideas and it benefits from it such as Youssry’s company which collect the local businesses garbage and recycle it for a profit

7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?

The young are feeling confidence from what they are doing and some are making real ventures.
 
Tyjohn Sykes
Ms.Sabir
English 201a
25 march 2012
1. The Social Entrepreneur profiled is Patti Corso.
2. The problem this person had was saving the trees and the forest.
3. The name of the organization they started is Sierra Gorda Biosphere.
4. Patti's relationship with the community was a good one she taught them many things about the forest they were fighting for and also danced with the people of the community they were like a family.
5. She addressed this issue to make her life‘s work saving the forest.
6. The local component is she wants the community to have this nice forest.
7. She has bettered the community by letting them know she is there and encouraged others to help.
 
Tesfaye Kekeba
 
Tesfaye Kekeba
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201B
5 May 2012.

Mexico: The Business of saving Trees
Ecaudor: Flower Power
Tibet: Eye Camp

Questions:

1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6. What is the local component?
7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?

Answers:

1. Pati Ruiz Corzo
2. She found the place littered with trash and stripped of much of its natural vegetation.
3. Sierra Goda Boispher
4. She has nice relationship with the community and created a new job for many people of the area.
5. She addresse this issue to minimize global warming.
6. The society were taking part to plant new trees to reduce air pollution.
7. The community works together integraly to save the envronment.

Ecaudor: Flower Power

1. John Nevado
2. Dangerous pesticides, poor labor practices, and corrupt managment.
3. Nevado Rose
4. He improves the workers rights and empowers the people by giving the different working positions.
5. To increase the production of rose flowers all over the world.
6. The social entrepreneur also gives the employees the free day care service for their children.
7. The community parcipates in the organizaztion as a business campony.

Tibet: Eye Camp

1. Dr. Mac Lieberman
2. Epidemic vision problem
3. Tibet Vision project
4. Dr. Mac Lieberman acts with the community cooperatively.
5. The doctor addresses this problem to treat the eye diseases.
6. The Chinise and Tibetan Officials.
7. The local community worker clear the way for Lieberman to deliver the quality medical care.
 
Jennifer Calderon
Professor Sabir
English 201 B
April 30, 2012

Uganda Out of the Wild

1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka she is a veterinarian who specializes in gorillas.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Diseases that animals get from humans and vice versa.

3. What is the name of the organization they started?
In 2002, Kalema-Zikusoka founded a non- profit organization called Conservation through Public Health

4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka has a great relationship with the local community as she helps them and educates them about health.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
She addressed this issue because she wants to improve the health of the people and of the animals.
6. What is the local component?
The local component is health education and disease prevention.
7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business? Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka informs and educates the community health wise. She does this to reduce diseases and promotes health around a remote area in Uganda.
Tibet Eye Camp
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ophthalmologist Mark Lieberman.

2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
In Tibet there are a lot of people who suffer from cataracts and often go blind because of no treatment.

3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Dr. Lieberman founded the non-profit organization Tibet Vision Project.

4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The doctor goes on eye camps to remote villages where people live as nomads because of the extreme poverty, there a large amount of people are losing their vision due to cataracts.

5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He decided to address this because Tibet has the largest number of cases of people that suffer from blindness due to cataracts.


6. What is the local component? The local component is treating people that are suffering from cataracts and also give them treatment to prevent them. The organization teaches local surgeons to perform these surgeries to help the people when they are not around because the organization goes only twice a year to Tibet.



7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
“They are opening eyes that have been closed for a long time” says a woman in the video. The community is helped by these doctors who through surgery help them recover their vision.


India: Design Like You Give a Damn

1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Purnima McCutcheon an American trained architect.

2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Rebuilding Tamanaru a village in India that was affected by the 2004 Tsunami.


3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity

4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
After the 2004 tsunami Purmina picked up and moved to India to help rebuild. She gets together with the local community and listens to the ideas of the people so that she can help rebuild their community.


5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
She decided to address this issue because of the devastating tsunami they suffered in 2004.

6. What is the local component?
The local component to rebuild the village after the tsunami.

7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The community give their ideas of the way they want way their buildings designed. The organization promotes jobs because they hire local people to build the new projects.
 
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